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<h3 class="unnumberedsec">Acknowledgements</h3>
<p><a name="index-acknowledgements-3"></a>
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).
<p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Ben Abbott </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Andy Adler </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Giles Anderson
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Joel Andersson </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Muthiah Annamalai </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Marco Atzeri
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Shai Ayal </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Roger Banks </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ben Barrowes
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Alexander Barth </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Bateman </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Heinz Bauschke
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Roman Belov </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Karl Berry </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Billinghurst
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Don Bindner </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jakub Bogusz </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Moritz Borgmann
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Paul Boven </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Richard Bovey </td><td valign="top" width="33%">John Bradshaw
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Marcus Brinkmann </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Remy Bruno </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ansgar Burchard
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Marco Caliari </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Daniel Calvelo </td><td valign="top" width="33%">John C. Campbell
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Juan Pablo Carbajal </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jean-Francois Cardoso </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Joao Cardoso
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Larrie Carr </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Castelow </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Vincent Cautaerts
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Clinton Chee </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Albert Chin-A-Young </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Carsten Clark
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">J. D. Cole </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Costabel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Creel
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jeff Cunningham </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Dalecki </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jorge Barros de Abreu
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Carlo de Falco </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jacob Dawid </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Thomas D. Dean
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Philippe Defert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Bill Denney </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Fabian Deutsch
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Christos Dimitrakakis </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David M. Doolin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Carnë Draug
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Pascal A. Dupuis </td><td valign="top" width="33%">John W. Eaton </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Dirk Eddelbuettel
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Pieter Eendebak </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Paul Eggert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Stephen Eglen
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter Ekberg </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rolf Fabian </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Gunnar Farnebäck
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Stephen Fegan </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ramon Garcia Fernandez </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Torsten Finke
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jose Daniel Munoz Frias </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Brad Froehle </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Castor Fu
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Eduardo Gallestey </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Walter Gautschi </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Klaus Gebhardt
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Driss Ghaddab </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Nicolo Giorgetti </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael D. Godfrey
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Michael Goffioul </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Glenn Golden </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Tomislav Goles
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Keith Goodman </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Brian Gough </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Steffen Groot
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Etienne Grossmann </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Grundberg </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Peter Gustafson
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai Habel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Patrick Häcker </td><td valign="top" width="33%">William P. Y. Hadisoeseno
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jaroslav Hajek </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Benjamin Hall </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kim Hansen
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Søren Hauberg </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Dave Hawthorne </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Daniel Heiserer
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Martin Helm </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Stefan Hepp </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Yozo Hida </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ryan Hinton </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Roman Hodek
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">A. Scottedward Hodel </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Richard Allan Holcombe </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Tom Holroyd
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">David Hoover </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Kurt Hornik </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Christopher Hulbert
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Cyril Humbert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Teemu Ikonen </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Alan W. Irwin
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<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Kai Labusch </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Claude Lacoursiere </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Walter Landry
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Bill Lash </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Dirk Laurie </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Maurice LeBrun
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Friedrich Leisch </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Jyh-miin Lin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Timo Lindfors
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Benjamin Lindner </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ross Lippert </td><td valign="top" width="33%">David Livings
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<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Emil Lucretiu </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Hoxide Ma </td><td valign="top" width="33%">James Macnicol
<br></td></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="33%">Jens-Uwe Mager </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Rob Mahurin </td><td valign="top" width="33%">Ricardo Marranita
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<p>Special thanks to the following people and organizations for
supporting the development of Octave:
<ul>
<li>The United States Department of Energy, through grant number
DE-FG02-04ER25635.
<li>Ashok Krishnamurthy, David Hudak, Juan Carlos Chaves, and Stanley
C. Ahalt of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
<li>The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360,
CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, CTS-8957123, and CNS-0540147.
<li>The industrial members of the Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control
Consortium (<a href="http://www.che.utexas.edu/twmcc">TWMCC</a>).
<li>The Paul A. Elfers Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
<li>Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their
External Research Program.
<li>Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.
<li>International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part
of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering.
<li>Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the
development of this software.
<li>The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a
Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an
Academic Development Funds grant.
<li>The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas
Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078.
<li>Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.
<li>John A. Turner, Group Leader, Continuum Dynamics (CCS-2), Los Alamos
National Laboratory, for registering the <a href="octave.org">octave.org</a> domain name.
<li>James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
<li>Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.
</ul>
<p>This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used
in and to produce Octave.
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