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<section id="PrefaceAcknowledgements">
  <title>Acknowledgements</title>

  <para>
    In addition to the core code developed by &namebarry; at M.I.T., a large part of the Csound code was modified, developed and extended by an independent group of programmers, composers and scientists. Copyright to this code is held by the respective authors:
  </para>

  <table frame="none" colsep="0">
    <title>Contributors</title>

    <tgroup cols="2">
      <tbody>
        <row>
         <entry>&namemike;</entry>
         <entry>Richard Karpen</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Eli Breder</entry>
          <entry>Victor Lazzarini</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Michael Casey</entry>
          <entry>Allan Lee</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Michael Clark</entry>
          <entry>David Macintyre</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&nameperry;</entry>
          <entry>&namegabriel;</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&namesean;</entry>
          <entry>Max Mathews</entry>
        </row>
 
        <row>
          <entry>&namerichard;</entry>
          <entry>&namehans;</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Mark Dolson</entry>
          <entry>Peter Neub&auml;cker</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&namerasmus;</entry>
          <entry>Ville Pulkki</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Dan Ellis</entry>
          <entry>Marc Resibois</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Tom Erbe</entry>
          <entry>&nameparis;</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&namejohn;</entry>
          <entry>Rob Shaw</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Bill Gardner</entry>
          <entry>Greg Sullivan</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&namematt;</entry>
          <entry>Bill Verplank</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>&nameistvan;</entry>
          <entry>Robin Whittle</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Jean Pich&eacute;</entry>
          <entry>Peter Nix</entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </table>

  <para>
    The official manual was compiled from the canonical Csound Manual sources maintained by &namejohn;, Richard Boulanger, Jean Pich&eacute;, Peter Nix, and &namedavid;. The Alternative Csound Reference Manual is maintained by &namekevin;.
  </para>
</section>
