### 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 | Joakim Andén
Giles Anderson | Joel Andersson | Lachlan Andrew
Pedro Angelo | Damjan Angelovski | Muthiah Annamalai
Markus Appel | 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 | Atri Bhattacharya | Ethan Biery
David Billinghurst | Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz
Moritz Borgmann | Paul Boven | Richard Bovey
John Bradshaw | Marcus Brinkmann | Max Brister
Remy Bruno | Clemens Buchacher | Ansgar Burchard
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
Garrett Euler | Edmund Grimley Evans | Rolf Fabian
Francesco Faccio | Gunnar Farnebäck | Massimiliano Fasi
Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez | 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 | 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
Søren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne | Oliver Heimlich
Daniel Heiserer | Piotr Held | Martin Helm
Stefan Hepp | Martin Hepperle | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Israel Herraiz | Yozo Hida | Ryan Hinton
Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel | 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 | Geoff Jacobsen
Vytautas Jančauskas | 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
Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle
Lars Kindermann | Aaron A. King | Erik Kjellson
Arno J. Klaassen | Alexander Klein | Lasse Kliemann
Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | 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 | 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
Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Ed Meyer | Thorsten Meyer
Stefan Miereis | Petr Mikulik | Mike Miller
Serviscope Minor | Stefan Monnier | Rafael Monteiro
Stephen Montgomery-Smith | 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 | Arno Onken
Valentin Ortega-Clavero | Luis F. Ortiz | Carl Osterwisch
Janne Olavi Paanajärvi | Scott Pakin | José Luis García Pallero
Jason Alan Palmer | Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier
Rolando Pereira | Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin
Jim Peterson | 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 | 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 | Joseph P. Skudlarek
John Smith | Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith
Peter L. Sondergaard | Rüdiger Sonderfeld | Joerg Specht
Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel | David Spies
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 Tenny
Kris Thielemans | Georg Thimm | Corey Thomasson
Andrew Thornton | Olaf Till | 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 | Thomas Walter
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 | 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 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.