Acknowledgements

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

Ben Abbott	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	Moritz Borgmann
Richard Bovey	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	Carsten Clark	J. D. Cole
Martin Costabel	Michael Creel	Jeff Cunningham
Martin Dalecki	Jorge Barros de Abreu	Carlo de Falco
Thomas D. Dean	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	Brian Gough	Steffen Groot
Etienne Grossmann	Peter Gustafson	Kai Habel
William P. Y. Hadisoeseno	Jaroslav Hajek	Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen	Soren Hauberg	Dave Hawthorne
Daniel Heiserer	Martin Helm	Stefan Hepp
Yozo Hida	Ryan Hinton	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
Jarkko Kaleva	Mohamed Kamoun	Lute Kamstra
Thomas Kasper	Joel Keay	Mumit Khan
Paul Kienzle	Aaron A. King	Arno J. Klaassen
Geoffrey Knauth	Heine Kolltveit	Ken Kouno
Oyvind Kristiansen	Piotr Krzyzanowski	Volker Kuhlmann
Tetsuro Kurita	Miroslaw Kwasniak	Rafael Laboissiere
Kai Labusch	Claude Lacoursiere	Walter Landry
Bill Lash	Dirk Laurie	Maurice LeBrun
Friedrich Leisch	Timo Lindfors	Benjamin Lindner
Ross Lippert	David Livings	Erik de Castro Lopo
Massimo Lorenzin	Emil Lucretiu	Hoxide Ma
James Macnicol	Jens-Uwe Mager	Ricardo Marranita
Orestes Mas	Makoto Matsumoto	Tatsuro Matsuoka
Laurent Mazet	G. D. McBain	Alexander Mamonov
Christoph Mayer	Thorsten Meyer	Petr Mikulik
Stefan Monnier	Antoine Moreau	Kai P. Mueller
Victor Munoz	Carmen Navarrete	Todd Neal
Al Niessner	Rick Niles	Takuji Nishimura
Kai Noda	Eric Norum	Krzesimir Nowak
Michael O'Brien	Peter O'Gorman	Thorsten Ohl
Arno Onken	Luis F. Ortiz	Scott Pakin
Gabriele Pannocchia	Sylvain Pelissier	Per Persson
Primozz Peterlin	Jim Peterson	Danilo Piazzalunga
Nicholas Piper	Robert Platt	Hans Ekkehard Plesser
Tom Poage	Orion Poplawski	Ondrej Popp
Jef Poskanzer	Francesco Potorti	James B. Rawlings
Eric S. Raymond	Balint Reczey	Michael Reifenberger
Jason Riedy	Petter Risholm	Matthew W. Roberts
Andrew Ross	Mark van Rossum	Kevin Ruland
Ryan Rusaw	Olli Saarela	Toni Saarela
Juhani Saastamoinen	Radek Salac	Ben Sapp
Aleksej Saushev	Alois Schloegl	Michel D. Schmid
Julian Schnidder	Nicol N. Schraudolph	Sebastian Schubert
Ludwig Schwardt	Thomas L. Scofield	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
Jonathan Stickel	Thomas Stuart	Ivan Sutoris
John Swensen	Ariel Tankus	Georg Thimm
Duncan Temple Lang	Kris Thielemans	Olaf Till
Thomas Treichl	Frederick Umminger	Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt	Peter Van Wieren	James R. Van Zandt
Gregory Vanuxem	Ivana Varekova	Thomas Walter
Olaf Weber	Thomas Weber	Rik Wehbring
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 United States Department of Energy, through grant number DE-FG02-04ER25635.
• Ashok Krishnamurthy, David Hudak, Juan Carlos Chaves, and Stanley C. Ahalt of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
• The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, CTS-8957123, and CNS-0540147.
• 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 to produce Octave.