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 alphbetically).

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	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
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
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
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.