Acknowledgements

Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out in various other ways (listed alphabetically).

Andy Adler	Joel Andersson	Muthiah Annamalai
Shai Ayal	Roger Banks	Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth	David Bateman	Heinz Bauschke
Karl Berry	David Billinghurst	Don Bindner
Jakub Bogusz	Marcus Brinkmann	Remy Bruno
Marco Caliari	Daniel Calvelo	John C. Campbell
Jean-Francois Cardoso	Joao Cardoso	Larrie Carr
David Castelow	Vincent Cautaerts	Clinton Chee
Albert Chin-A-Young	J. D. Cole	Martin Costabel
Michael Creel	Jeff Cunningham	Martin Dalecki
Jorge Barros de Abreu	Philippe Defert	Bill Denney
David M. Doolin	Pascal A. Dupuis	John W. Eaton
Dirk Eddelbuettel	Paul Eggert	Stephen Eglen
Peter Ekberg	Rolf Fabian	Stephen Fegan
Ramon Garcia Fernandez	Torsten Finke	Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
Castor Fu	Eduardo Gallestey	Walter Gautschi
Klaus Gebhardt	Driss Ghaddab	Nicolo Giorgetti
Michael Goffioul	Glenn Golden	Tomislav Goles
Keith Goodman	Etienne Grossmann	Peter Gustafson
Kai Habel	William P. Y. Hadisoeseno	Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen	Soren Hauberg	Daniel Heiserer
Yozo Hida	Roman Hodek	A. Scottedward Hodel
Richard Allan Holcombe	Tom Holroyd	David Hoover
Kurt Hornik	Christopher Hulbert	Cyril Humbert
Teemu Ikonen	Alan W. Irwin	Geoff Jacobsen
Mats Jansson	Cai Jianming	Steven G. Johnson
Heikki Junes	Atsushi Kajita	Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra	Joel Keay	Mumit Khan
Paul Kienzle	Aaron A. King	Arno J. Klaassen
Geoffrey Knauth	Heine Kolltveit	Ken Kouno
Oyvind Kristiansen	Piotr Krzyzanowski	Volker Kuhlmann
Miroslaw Kwasniak	Rafael Laboissiere	Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere	Walter Landry	Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie	Maurice LeBrun	Friedrich Leisch
Benjamin Lindner	Ross Lippert	David Livings
Erik de Castro Lopo	Massimo Lorenzin	Hoxide Ma
James Macnicol	Jens-Uwe Mager	Ricardo Marranita
Orestes Mas	Makoto Matsumoto	Laurent Mazet
G. D. McBain	Stefan Monnier	Antoine Moreau
Kai P. Mueller	Victor Munoz	Carmen Navarrete
Todd Neal	Al Niessner	Rick Niles
Takuji Nishimura	Eric Norum	Michael O'Brien
Thorsten Ohl	Arno Onken	Luis F. Ortiz
Scott Pakin	Gabriele Pannocchia	Sylvain Pelissier
Per Persson	Jim Peterson	Danilo Piazzalunga
Nicholas Piper	Hans Ekkehard Plesser	Tom Poage
Orion Poplawski	Ondrej Popp	Jef Poskanzer
Francesco Potorti	James B. Rawlings	Eric S. Raymond
Balint Reczey	Michael Reifenberger	Petter Risholm
Matthew W. Roberts	Andrew Ross	Mark van Rossum
Kevin Ruland	Olli Saarela	Toni Saarela
Juhani Saastamoinen	Ben Sapp	Alois Schloegl
Michel D. Schmid	Nicol N. Schraudolph	Sebastian Schubert
Ludwig Schwardt	Daniel J. Sebald	Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Baylis Shanks	Joseph P. Skudlarek	John Smith
Julius Smith	Shan G. Smith	Joerg Specht
Quentin H. Spencer	Christoph Spiel	Richard Stallman
Russell Standish	Doug Stewart	Thomas Stuart
Ariel Tankus	Georg Thimm	Duncan Temple Lang
Olaf Till	Thomas Treichl	Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt	Peter Van Wieren	James R. Van Zandt
Gregory Vanuxem	Ivana Varekova	Thomas Walter
Olaf Weber	Thomas Weber	Bob Weigel
Andreas Weingessel	Michael Weitzel	Fook Fah Yap
Michael Zeising	Federico Zenith	Alex Zvoleff

Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:

• The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, and CTS-8957123.
• The industrial members of the Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control Consortium (TWMCC).
• The Paul A. Elfers Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their External Research Program.
• Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.
• International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering.
• Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the development of this software.
• The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an Academic Development Funds grant.
• The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078.
• Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.
• John A. Turner, Group Leader, Continuum Dynamics (CCS-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, for registering the octave.org domain name.
• James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
• Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.

This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and used to produce Octave.