Special thanks to the following people and organizations for
supporting the development of Octave:

  * Digital Equipment Corporation, for a one year grant as part of
    their External Research Program.

  * Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.

  * The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a
    Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an
    Academic Development Funds grant.

  * Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the
    development of this software.

  * Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.

  * James B. Rawlings, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical
    Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.
