### Acknowledgements

Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out 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
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
J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel | Michael Creel
Jeff Cunningham | Martin Dalecki | Jorge Barros de Abreu
Philippe Defert | Bill Denney | David M. Doolin
Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel
Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg
Rolf Fabian | Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez
Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | Castor Fu
Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt
Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti | Michael Goffioul
Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman
Etienne Grossmann | Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel
William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Benjamin Hall | Kim Hansen
Soren Hauberg | Daniel Heiserer | Yozo Hida
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 | Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra
Thomas Kasper | Joel Keay | Mumit Khan
Paul Kienzle | Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen
Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno
Oyvind Kristiansen | Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann
Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch
Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | David Livings
Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | Hoxide Ma
James Macnicol | Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita
Orestes Mas | Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka
Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | Christoph Mayer
Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller
Victor Munoz | Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal
Al Niessner | Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura
Eric Norum | Michael O'Brien | Thorsten Ohl
Arno Onken | Luis F. Ortiz | Scott Pakin
Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | Per Persson
Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper
Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage | Orion Poplawski
Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | Francesco Potorti
James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey
Michael Reifenberger | Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts
Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | Kevin Ruland
Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen
Ben Sapp | Alois Schloegl | Michel D. Schmid
Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | Ludwig Schwardt
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 | Thomas Stuart | John Swensen
Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang
Olaf Till | Thomas Treichl | Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt
Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova | Thomas Walter
Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | 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 used to produce Octave.