### 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 | Nithin Lakshmisha | 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.