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<h3 class="unnumberedsec">Acknowledgements</h3>
<p><a name="index-acknowledgements-3"></a>
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).
<p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ben Abbott </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Andy Adler </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Joel Andersson
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Muthiah Annamalai </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Shai Ayal </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Roger Banks
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ben Barrowes </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Alexander Barth </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Bateman
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Heinz Bauschke </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Karl Berry </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Billinghurst
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Don Bindner </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jakub Bogusz </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Moritz Borgmann
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Richard Bovey </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Marcus Brinkmann </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Remy Bruno
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Marco Caliari </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Daniel Calvelo </td><td valign="top" width="33%">John C. Campbell
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jean-Francois Cardoso </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Joao Cardoso </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Larrie Carr
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">David Castelow </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Vincent Cautaerts </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Clinton Chee
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Albert Chin-A-Young </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Carsten Clark </td><td valign="top" width="33%">J. D. Cole
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Costabel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Creel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jeff Cunningham
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Dalecki </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jorge Barros de Abreu </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Carlo de Falco
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas D. Dean </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Philippe Defert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Bill Denney
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">David M. Doolin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Pascal A. Dupuis </td><td valign="top" width="33%">John W. Eaton
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Dirk Eddelbuettel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Paul Eggert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Stephen Eglen
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter Ekberg </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rolf Fabian </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Stephen Fegan
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ramon Garcia Fernandez </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Torsten Finke </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Castor Fu </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Eduardo Gallestey </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Walter Gautschi
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Klaus Gebhardt </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Driss Ghaddab </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Nicolo Giorgetti
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Goffioul </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Glenn Golden </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Tomislav Goles
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Keith Goodman </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Brian Gough </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Steffen Groot
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Etienne Grossmann </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter Gustafson </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai Habel
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">William P. Y. Hadisoeseno </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jaroslav Hajek </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Benjamin Hall
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Kim Hansen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Soren Hauberg </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Dave Hawthorne
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Daniel Heiserer </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Helm </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Stefan Hepp
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Yozo Hida </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ryan Hinton </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Roman Hodek
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">A. Scottedward Hodel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Richard Allan Holcombe </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Tom Holroyd
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">David Hoover </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kurt Hornik </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Christopher Hulbert
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Cyril Humbert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Teemu Ikonen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Alan W. Irwin
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Geoff Jacobsen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Mats Jansson </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Cai Jianming
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Steven G. Johnson </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Heikki Junes </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Atsushi Kajita
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jarkko Kaleva </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Mohamed Kamoun </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Lute Kamstra
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas Kasper </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Joel Keay </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Mumit Khan
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Paul Kienzle </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Aaron A. King </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Arno J. Klaassen
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Geoffrey Knauth </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Heine Kolltveit </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ken Kouno
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Oyvind Kristiansen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Piotr Krzyzanowski </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Volker Kuhlmann
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Tetsuro Kurita </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Miroslaw Kwasniak </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rafael Laboissiere
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai Labusch </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Claude Lacoursiere </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Walter Landry
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Bill Lash </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Dirk Laurie </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Maurice LeBrun
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Friedrich Leisch </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Timo Lindfors </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Benjamin Lindner
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ross Lippert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Livings </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Erik de Castro Lopo
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Massimo Lorenzin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Emil Lucretiu </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Hoxide Ma
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">James Macnicol </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jens-Uwe Mager </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ricardo Marranita
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Orestes Mas </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Makoto Matsumoto </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Tatsuro Matsuoka
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Laurent Mazet </td><td valign="top" width="33%">G. D. McBain </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Alexander Mamonov
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Christoph Mayer </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thorsten Meyer </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Petr Mikulik
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Stefan Monnier </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Antoine Moreau </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai P. Mueller
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Victor Munoz </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Carmen Navarrete </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Todd Neal
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Al Niessner </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rick Niles </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Takuji Nishimura
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai Noda </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Eric Norum </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Krzesimir Nowak
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael O'Brien </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter O'Gorman </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thorsten Ohl
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Arno Onken </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Luis F. Ortiz </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Scott Pakin
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Gabriele Pannocchia </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Sylvain Pelissier </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Per Persson
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Primozz Peterlin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jim Peterson </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Danilo Piazzalunga
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Nicholas Piper </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Robert Platt </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Hans Ekkehard Plesser
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Tom Poage </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Orion Poplawski </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ondrej Popp
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jef Poskanzer </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Francesco Potorti </td><td valign="top" width="33%">James B. Rawlings
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Eric S. Raymond </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Balint Reczey </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Reifenberger
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jason Riedy </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Petter Risholm </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Matthew W. Roberts
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Andrew Ross </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Mark van Rossum </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kevin Ruland
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ryan Rusaw </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Olli Saarela </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Toni Saarela
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Juhani Saastamoinen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Radek Salac </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ben Sapp
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Aleksej Saushev </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Alois Schloegl </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michel D. Schmid
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Julian Schnidder </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Nicol N. Schraudolph </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Sebastian Schubert
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ludwig Schwardt </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas L. Scofield </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Daniel J. Sebald
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Dmitri A. Sergatskov </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Baylis Shanks </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Joseph P. Skudlarek
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">John Smith </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Julius Smith </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Shan G. Smith
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Joerg Specht </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Quentin H. Spencer </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Christoph Spiel
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Richard Stallman </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Russell Standish </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Doug Stewart
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jonathan Stickel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas Stuart </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ivan Sutoris
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">John Swensen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ariel Tankus </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Georg Thimm
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Duncan Temple Lang </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kris Thielemans </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Olaf Till
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas Treichl </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Frederick Umminger </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Utkarsh Upadhyay
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Stefan van der Walt </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter Van Wieren </td><td valign="top" width="33%">James R. Van Zandt
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Gregory Vanuxem </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ivana Varekova </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas Walter
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Olaf Weber </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas Weber </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rik Wehbring
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Bob Weigel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Andreas Weingessel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Weitzel
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Fook Fah Yap </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Zeising </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Federico Zenith
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Alex Zvoleff
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<p>Special thanks to the following people and organizations for
supporting the development of Octave:
<ul>
<li>The United States Department of Energy, through grant number
DE-FG02-04ER25635.
<li>Ashok Krishnamurthy, David Hudak, Juan Carlos Chaves, and Stanley
C. Ahalt of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
<li>The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360,
CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, CTS-8957123, and CNS-0540147.
<li>The industrial members of the Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control
Consortium (<a href="http://www.che.utexas.edu/twmcc">TWMCC</a>).
<li>The Paul A. Elfers Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
<li>Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their
External Research Program.
<li>Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.
<li>International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part
of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering.
<li>Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the
development of this software.
<li>The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a
Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an
Academic Development Funds grant.
<li>The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas
Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078.
<li>Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.
<li>John A. Turner, Group Leader, Continuum Dynamics (CCS-2), Los Alamos
National Laboratory, for registering the <a href="octave.org">octave.org</a> domain name.
<li>James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
<li>Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.
</ul>
<p>This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used
in and to produce Octave.
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