### 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 | 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.