### 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 | Drew Abbot | NVS Abhilash
Andy Adler | Adam H. Aitkenhead | Fernando Alvarruiz
Joakim Andén | Giles Anderson | Joel Andersson
Lachlan Andrew | Pedro Angelo | Damjan Angelovski
Muthiah Annamalai | Markus Appel | Leonardo Araujo
Branden Archer | Willem Atsma | Marco Atzeri
Ander Aurrekoetxea | Shai Ayal | Sahil Badyal
Jeff Bai | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke
Miguel Bazdresch | Julien Bect | Stefan Beller
Roman Belov | Markus Bergholz | Karl Berry
Andreas Bertsatos | Atri Bhattacharya | Ethan Biery
David Billinghurst | Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz
Gaël Bonithon | Leonardo S. Borges | Moritz Borgmann
Paul Boven | Richard Bovey | John Bradshaw
Marcus Brinkmann | Max Brister | Remy Bruno
Stefan Brüns | Clemens Buchacher | Ansgar Burchard
Antonius Burgers | Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo
John C. Campbell | Juan Pablo Carbajal | Jean-Francois Cardoso
Joao Cardoso | Larrie Carr | David Castelow
Vincent Cautaerts | Marco Cecchetti | Corbin Champion
Clinton Chee | Albert Chin-A-Young | Sunghyun Cho
Carsten Clark | Catalin Codreanu | J. D. Cole
Jacopo Corno | Andre da Costa Barros | 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 | Carnë Draug | Sergey Dudoladov
Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel
Pieter Eendebak | Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen
Peter Ekberg | Abdallah K. Elshamy | Garrett Euler
Edmund Grimley Evans | Rolf Fabian | Francesco Faccio
Gunnar Farnebäck | Massimiliano Fasi | Stephen Fegan
Ramon Garcia Fernandez | Kasper H. Filtenborg | Torsten Finke
David Finkel | Guillaume Flandin | Colin Foster
Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | Brad Froehle | Castor Fu
Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt
Driss Ghaddab | Eugenio Gianniti | Hartmut Gimpel
Michele Ginesi | Nicolo Giorgetti | Arun Giridhar
Michael D. Godfrey | Dave Goel | Michael Goffioul
Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman
Brian Gough | Alexander Graf | Michael C. Grant
Steffen Groot | Etienne Grossmann | David Grundberg
Kyle Guinn | Vaibhav Gupta | Peter Gustafson
Kai Habel | Patrick Häcker | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno
Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall | Alexander Hansen
Kim Hansen | Gene Harvey | Søren Hauberg
Dave Hawthorne | Oliver Heimlich | Daniel Heiserer
Piotr Held | Martin Helm | Stefan Hepp
Martin Hepperle | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso | Israel Herraiz
Yozo Hida | Christian Himpe | Ryan Hinton
Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel | Júlio Hoffimann
Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | David Hoover
Kurt Hornik | Craig Hudson | Christopher Hulbert
Cyril Humbert | John Hunt | Stefan Husmann
Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin | Allan Jacobs
Marcel Jacobse | Geoff Jacobsen | Vytautas Jančauskas
Andrew Janke | Nicholas R. Jankowski | Mats Jansson
Robert Jenssen | Cai Jianming | Steven G. Johnson
Heikki Junes | Matthias Jüschke | Atsushi Kajita
Jarkko Kaleva | Avinoam Kalma | Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra | Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper
Christof Kaufmann | Joel Keay | Mumit Khan
Paul Kienzle | Lars Kindermann | Aaron A. King
Erik Kjellson | Arno J. Klaassen | Alexander Klein
Lasse Kliemann | Geoffrey Knauth | Hendrik Koerner
Martin Köhler | Heine Kolltveit | Thomas Kolman
Peter Konowski | Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik
Endre Kozma | Daniel Kraft | Nir Krakauer
Aravindh Krishnamoorthy | Oyvind Kristiansen | Artem Krosheninnikov
Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann | Ilya Kurdyukov
Tetsuro Kurita | Ben Kurtz | Philipp Kutin
Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch
Michael Leitner | Johannes Leuschner | Thorsten Liebig
Torsten Lilge | Jyh-miin Lin | Timo Lindfors
Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | Yu Liu
David Livings | Barbara Locsi | Sebastien Loisel
Andrej Lojdl | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin
Emil Lucretiu | Yi-Hong Lyu | Hoxide Ma
Colin Macdonald | James Macnicol | Jens-Uwe Mager
Stefan Mahr | Rob Mahurin | Alexander Mamonov
Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | Axel Mathéi
Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Christoph Mayer
Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | Ronald van der Meer
Markus Meisinger | Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Ed Meyer
Thorsten Meyer | Stefan Miereis | Petr Mikulik
Linton Miller | Mike Miller | Serviscope Minor
Stefan Monnier | Rafael Monteiro | Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Anthony Morast | Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller
Amod Mulay | Armin Müller | Hannes Müller
Victor Munoz | PrasannaKumar Muralidharan | Iain Murray
Nicholas Musolino | Markus Mützel | Carmen Navarrete
Todd Neal | Philip Nienhuis | Al Niessner
Felipe G. Nievinski | Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura
Akira Noda | Kai Noda | Patrick Noffke
Victor Norton | Eric Norum | Krzesimir Nowak
Michael O’Brien | Cillian O’Driscoll | Peter O’Gorman
Thorsten Ohl | Kai T. Ohlhus | Serkan Önder
Arno Onken | Valentin Ortega-Clavero | Luis F. Ortiz
Carl Osterwisch | Janne Olavi Paanajärvi | Óvári
Scott Pakin | José Luis García Pallero | Jason Alan Palmer
Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | Rolando Pereira
Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson
Johannes Pfeifer | Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper
Elias Pipping | Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser
Sergey Plotnikov | Tom Poage | Nathan Podlich
Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer
Francesco Potortì | Konstantinos Poulios | Tejaswi D. Prakash
Jarno Rajahalme | Eduardo Ramos | Pooja Rao
James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey
Joshua Redstone | Andy Register | Lukas Reichlin
Michael Reifenberger | Ernst Reissner | Reinhard Resch
Jens Restemeier | Anthony Richardson | Jason Riedy
E. Joshua Rigler | Sander van Rijn | Petter Risholm
Matthew W. Roberts | Melvin Robinson | Dmitry Roshchin
Peter Rosin | Andrew Ross | Fabio Rossi
Mark van Rossum | Joe Rothweiler | David Rörich
Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw
Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen
Radek Salac | Mike Sander | Ben Sapp
Aleksej Saushev | Alois Schlögl | Michel D. Schmid
Julian Schnidder | Sebastian Schöps | Nicol N. Schraudolph
Sebastian Schubert | Lasse Schuirmann | Ludwig Schwardt
Thomas L. Scofield | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Vanya Sergeev | Marko Seric | Ahsan Ali Shahid
Baylis Shanks | Andriy Shinkarchuck | Robert T. Short
Paulo Silva | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith
Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Peter L. Sondergaard
Rüdiger Sonderfeld | Joerg Specht | Quentin H. Spencer
Christoph Spiel | David Spies | Imad-Eddine Srairi
Andreas Stahel | Richard Stallman | Russell Standish
Ryan Starret | Brett Stewart | Doug Stewart
Jen Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | Judd Storrs
Thomas Stuart | Bernardo Sulzbach | Ivan Sutoris
John Swensen | Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus
Falk Tannhäuser | Duncan Temple Lang | Matthew Tennyhg
Remi Thebault | Kris Thielemans | Georg Thimm
Paul Thomas | Corey Thomasson | Andrew Thornton
Olaf Till | Petter Tomner | Christophe Tournery
Thomas Treichl | Abhinav Tripathi | Karsten Trulsen
David Turner | Frederick Umminger | Utkarsh Upadhyay
José Vallet | Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren
James R. Van Zandt | Risto Vanhanen | Gregory Vanuxem
Mihas Varantsou | Ivana Varekova | Sébastien Villemot
Marco Vitetta | Daniel Wagenaar | Steven Waldrip
Thomas Walter | Jun Wang | Andreas Weber
Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring
Bob Weigel | Andreas Weingessel | Martin Weiser
Michael Weitzel | David Wells | Joachim Wiesemann
Alexander Wilms | Joe Winegarden | Georg Wiora
Eddy Xiao | Sahil Yadav | Fook Fah Yap
Sean Young | Michele Zaffalon | Serhiy Zahoriya
Johannes Zarl | Michael Zeising | Federico Zenith
Claudius Zingerli | Alex Zvoleff | Richard Zweig

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 https://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.