octave: Acknowledgements

 
 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               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                Roger Banks
 Ben Barrowes             Alexander Barth          David Bateman
 Heinz Bauschke           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        Clinton Chee
 Albert Chin-A-Young      Carsten Clark            Catalin Codreanu
 J. D. Cole               Jacopo Corno             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              Pascal A. Dupuis
 John W. Eaton            Dirk Eddelbuettel        Pieter Eendebak
 Paul Eggert              Stephen Eglen            Peter Ekberg
 Garrett Euler            Edmund Grimley Evans     Rolf Fabian
 Gunnar Farnebäck         Massimiliano Fasi        Stephen Fegan
 Ramon Garcia Fernandez   Torsten Finke            Colin Foster
 Jose Daniel Munoz        Brad Froehle             Castor Fu
 Frias
 Eduardo Gallestey        Walter Gautschi          Klaus Gebhardt
 Driss Ghaddab            Eugenio Gianniti         Hartmut Gimpel
 Nicolo Giorgetti         Arun Giridhar            Michael D. Godfrey
 Michael Goffioul         Glenn Golden             Tomislav Goles
 Keith Goodman            Brian Gough              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            Kim Hansen
 Søren Hauberg            Dave Hawthorne           Oliver Heimlich
 Daniel Heiserer          Piotr Held               Martin Helm
 Stefan Hepp              Martin Hepperle          Jordi Gutiérrez
                                                   Hermoso
 Yozo Hida                Ryan Hinton              Roman Hodek
 A. Scottedward Hodel     Richard Allan Holcombe   Tom Holroyd
 David Hoover             Kurt Hornik              Christopher Hulbert
 Cyril Humbert            John Hunt                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          Geoffrey Knauth
 Heine Kolltveit          Ken Kouno                Kacper Kowalik
 Daniel Kraft             Nir Krakauer             Aravindh
                                                   Krishnamoorthy
 Oyvind Kristiansen       Artem Krosheninnikov     Piotr Krzyzanowski
 Volker Kuhlmann          Ilya Kurdyukov           Tetsuro Kurita
 Philipp Kutin            Miroslaw Kwasniak        Rafael Laboissiere
 Kai Labusch              Claude Lacoursiere       Walter Landry
 Bill Lash                Dirk Laurie              Maurice LeBrun
 Friedrich Leisch         Johannes Leuschner       Thorsten Liebig
 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          Antoine Moreau           Kai P. Mueller
 Armin Müller             Hannes Müller            Victor Munoz
 PrasannaKumar            Iain Murray              Markus Mützel
 Muralidharan
 Carmen Navarrete         Todd Neal                Philip Nienhuis
 Al Niessner              Felipe G. Nievinski      Rick Niles
 Takuji Nishimura         Akira Noda               Kai Noda
 Patrick Noffke           Eric Norum               Krzesimir Nowak
 Michael O’Brien          Cillian O’Driscoll       Peter O’Gorman
 Thorsten Ohl             Kai T. Ohlhus            Arno Onken
 Valentin                 Luis F. Ortiz            Carl Osterwisch
 Ortega-Clavero
 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          Lukas Reichlin           Michael Reifenberger
 Ernst Reissner           Jens Restemeier          Anthony Richardson
 Jason Riedy              E. Joshua Rigler         Sander van Rijn
 Petter Risholm           Matthew W. Roberts       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     Joerg Specht
 Quentin H. Spencer       Christoph Spiel          David Spies
 Richard Stallman         Russell Standish         Brett Stewart
 Doug 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           Karsten Trulsen          David Turner
 Frederick Umminger       Utkarsh Upadhyay         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        Fook Fah Yap
 Sean Young               Michele Zaffalon         Johannes Zarl
 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 (http://www.che.utexas.edu/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.