### Acknowledgements

Many people have 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
Christos Dimitrakakis | David M. Doolin | Pascal A. Dupuis
John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Paul Eggert
Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg | Rolf Fabian
Gunnar Farnebäck | Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez
Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | Brad Froehle
Castor Fu | Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi
Klaus Gebhardt | Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti
Michael D. Godfrey | Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden
Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman | Brian Gough
Steffen Groot | Etienne Grossmann | David Grundberg
Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno
Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall | Kim Hansen
Søren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne | Daniel Heiserer
Martin Helm | Stefan Hepp | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
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
Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper | Joel Keay
Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | Aaron A. King
Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit
Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik | Daniel Kraft
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 | Konstantinos Poulios
James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey
Michael Reifenberger | Jason Riedy | Petter Risholm
Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum
Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | 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
Judd Storrs | Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris
John Swensen | Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus
Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang | Kris Thielemans
Olaf Till | Christophe Tournery | 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.