Contributors to Octave

Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. In addition to John W. Eaton, the following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out in various other ways.

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Contributors - Thanks!

Thomas Baier wrote the original versions of popen, pclose, execute, sync_system, and async_system.
Karl Berry wrote the kpathsea library that allows Octave to recursively search directory paths for function and script files.
Georg Beyerle contributed code to save values in MATLAB's .mat-file , and has provided many useful bug reports and suggestions.
John Campbell wrote most of the file and C-style input and output functions.
Brian Fox wrote the readline library used for command history editing, and the portion of this manual that documents it.
Klaus Gebhardt ported Octave to OS/2.
A. Scottedward Hodel contributed a number of functions including expm, qzval, qzhess, syl, lyap, and balance.
Kurt Hornik provided the corrcoef, cov, fftconv, fftfilt, gcd, lcd, kurtosis, null, orth, poly, polyfit, roots, and skewness functions, supplied documentation for these and numerous other functions, rewrote the Emacs mode for editing Octave code and provided its documentation, and has helped tremendously with testing. He has also been a constant source of new ideas for improving Octave.
Phil Johnson has helped to make Linux releases available.
Friedrich Leisch provided the mahalanobis function.
Ken Neighbors has provided many useful bug reports and comments on MATLAB compatibility.
Rick Niles rewrote Octave's plotting functions to add line styles and the ability to specify an unlimited number of lines in a single call. He also continues to track down odd incompatibilities and bugs.
Mark Odegard provided the initial implementation of fread, fwrite, feof, and ferror.
Tony Richardson wrote Octave's image processing functions as well as most of the original polynomial functions.
R. Bruce Tenison wrote the hess and schur functions.
Teresa Twaroch provided the functions gls and ols.
Andreas Weingessel wrote the audio functions lin2mu, loadaudio, mu2lin, playaudio, record, saveaudio, and setaudio.
Fook Fah Yap provided the fft and ifft functions and valuable bug reports for early versions.

Other contributors include (in alphabetical order by first name):

Aaron A. King, Albert Chin-A-Young, Al Niessner, Alois Schloegl, Andy Adler, Antoine Moreau, Arno J. Klaassen, A. Scottedward Hodel, Balint Reczey, Ben Barrowes, Benjamin Hall, Ben Sapp, Bill Denney, Bill Lash, Cai Jianming, cctsim, Christoph Spiel, Claude Lacoursiere, Cyril Humbert, Daniel Calvelo, Daniel J Sebald, Danilo Piazzalunga, David Bateman, David Billinghurst, David Castelow, David Hoover, David Livings, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dirk Laurie, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, Doug Stewart, Driss Ghaddab, Duncan Temple Lang, Eric S. Raymond, Erik de Castro, Etienne Grossmann, Federico Zenith, Francesco Potorti, Gabriele Pannocchia, Geoff Jacobsen, Georg Thimm, Glenn Golden, Hans Ekkehard Plesser, Heikki Junes, Heine Kolltveit, Heinz Bauschke, Ivana Varekova, Jakub Bogusz, James B. Rawlings, James R. Van, JD Cole, Jean-Francois Cardoso, Jeff Cunningham, Joao Cardoso, Joel Andersson, Joerg Specht, John Smith, John W. Eaton, Joseph P. Skudlarek, Julius Smith, Kai Habel, Keith Goodman, Kim Hansen, Kurt Hornik, Lute Kamstra, Marcus Brinkmann, Martin Dalecki, Mats Jansson, Matthew W. Roberts, Michael Reifenberger, Michael Zeising, Miroslaw Kwasniak, Mumit Khan, Nicholas Piper, Nix, Ondrej Popp, Orestes Mas, Orion Poplawski, Oyvind Kristiansen, Pascal A. Dupuis, Paul Kienzle, Per Persson, Peter Van Wieren, Petter Risholm, Quentin Spencer, Rafael Laboissiere, Richard Stallman, Roger Banks, Rolf Fabian, Russell Standish, Schloegl Alois, Shan G. Smith, Soren Hauberg, Stefan Monnier, Stefan van der Walt, Stephen Eglen, Steven G. Johnson, Teemu Ikonen, Thomas Walter, Todd Neal, Tom Holroyd, Toni Saarela, Volker Kuhlmann, Walter Landry, and William Poetra Yoga.

Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:

The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, and CTS-8957123.
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.
James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemical Engineering.
Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.