### 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 | Adam H. Aitkenhead
Giles Anderson | Joel Andersson | Muthiah Annamalai
Markus Appel | Branden Archer | Marco Atzeri
Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke
Julien Bect | Roman Belov | Karl Berry
David Billinghurst | Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz
Moritz Borgmann | Paul Boven | Richard Bovey
John Bradshaw | Marcus Brinkmann | Max Brister
Remy Bruno | Clemens Buchacher | Ansgar Burchard
Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell
Juan Pablo Carbajal | Jean-Francois Cardoso | Joao Cardoso
Larrie Carr | David Castelow | Vincent Cautaerts
Clinton Chee | Albert Chin-A-Young | Carsten Clark
Catalin Codreanu | J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel
Michael Creel | Richard Crozier | Jeff Cunningham
Martin Dalecki | Jacob Dawid | Jorge Barros de Abreu
Carlo de Falco | Thomas D. Dean | Philippe Defert
Bill Denney | Fabian Deutsch | Christos Dimitrakakis
Pantxo Diribarne | Vivek Dogra | John Donoghue
David M. Doolin | CarnÃ« Draug | Pascal A. Dupuis
John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Pieter Eendebak
Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg
Rolf Fabian | Gunnar FarnebÃ¤ck | 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 | Arun Giridhar | Michael D. Godfrey
Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles
Keith Goodman | Brian Gough | Steffen Groot
Etienne Grossmann | David Grundberg | Kyle Guinn
Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel | Patrick HÃ¤cker
William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen | SÃ¸ren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne
Daniel Heiserer | Martin Helm | Stefan Hepp
Martin Hepperle | Jordi GutiÃ©rrez Hermoso | Yozo Hida
Ryan Hinton | Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel
Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | David Hoover
Kurt Hornik | Christopher Hulbert | Cyril Humbert
John Hunt | Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin
Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming
Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Matthias JÃ¼schke
Atsushi Kajita | Jarkko Kaleva | Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra | Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper
Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle
Aaron A. King | Erik Kjellson | Arno J. Klaassen
Alexander Klein | Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit
Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik | Daniel Kraft
Nir Krakauer | Aravindh Krishnamoorthy | Oyvind Kristiansen
Artem Krosheninnikov | Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann
Tetsuro Kurita | Philipp Kutin | Miroslaw Kwasniak
Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch | Claude Lacoursiere
Walter Landry | Bill Lash | Dirk Laurie
Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch | Thorsten Liebig
Jyh-miin Lin | Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner
Ross Lippert | David Livings | Sebastien Loisel
Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | Emil Lucretiu
Hoxide Ma | Colin Macdonald | James Macnicol
Jens-Uwe Mager | Rob Mahurin | Alexander Mamonov
Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | Axel MathÃ©i
Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Christoph Mayer
Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | Ronald van der Meer
JÃºlio Hoffimann Mendes | Ed Meyer | Thorsten Meyer
Petr Mikulik | Mike Miller | Stefan Monnier
Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller | Hannes MÃ¼ller
Victor Munoz | Iain Murray | Carmen Navarrete
Todd Neal | Philip Nienhuis | Al Niessner
Felipe G. Nievinski | Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura
Kai Noda | Patrick Noffke | Eric Norum
Krzesimir Nowak | Michael O’Brien | Peter O’Gorman
Thorsten Ohl | Arno Onken | Valentin Ortega-Clavero
Luis F. Ortiz | Carl Osterwisch | Janne Olavi PaanajÃ¤rvi
Scott Pakin | Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier
Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson
Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper | Elias Pipping
Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage
Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer
Francesco PotortÃ¬ | Konstantinos Poulios | Jarno Rajahalme
James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey
Joshua Redstone | Lukas Reichlin | Michael Reifenberger
Jens Restemeier | Anthony Richardson | Jason Riedy
E. Joshua Rigler | Sander van Rijn | Petter Risholm
Matthew W. Roberts | Peter Rosin | Andrew Ross
Fabio Rossi | Mark van Rossum | Joe Rothweiler
Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw
Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen
Radek Salac | Ben Sapp | Aleksej Saushev
Alois SchlÃ¶gl | Michel D. Schmid | Julian Schnidder
Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | Ludwig Schwardt
Thomas L. Scofield | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Vanya Sergeev | Baylis Shanks | Andriy Shinkarchuck
Robert T. Short | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith
Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Peter L. Sondergaard
Joerg Specht | Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel
Richard Stallman | Russell Standish | Brett Stewart
Doug Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | Judd Storrs
Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen
Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | Falk TannhÃ¤user
Duncan Temple Lang | Matthew Tenny | Kris Thielemans
Georg Thimm | Corey Thomasson | Olaf Till
Christophe Tournery | Thomas Treichl | Karsten Trulsen
David Turner | Frederick Umminger | Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt
Risto Vanhanen | Gregory Vanuxem | Mihas Varantsou
Ivana Varekova | SÃ©bastien Villemot | Daniel Wagenaar
Thomas Walter | Andreas Weber | Olaf Weber
Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring | Bob Weigel
Andreas Weingessel | Martin Weiser | Michael Weitzel
David Wells | Fook Fah Yap | Sean Young
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.