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Preface 3• Tony Richardson richardson@evansville.edu wrote Octave’s image processing functionsas well as most of the original polynomial functions.• Petter Risholm Petter.Risholm@idi.ntnu.no helped to implement much of Octave’sN-d array functionality.• Ben Sapp bsapp@lanl.gov implemented the debugger functions and added Texinfomarkup commands to the internal doc strings.• R. Bruce Tenison btenison@rstc.cc.al.us wrote the hess and schur functions.• Teresa Twaroch twaroch@ci.tuwien.ac.at provided the functions gls and ols.• James R. Van Zandt jrv@vanzandt.mv.com added support for reading and writingMatlab version 5 binary data files.• Andreas Weingessel Andreas.Weingessel@ci.tuwien.ac.at wrote the audio functionslin2mu, loadaudio, mu2lin, playaudio, record, saveaudio, and setaudio.• Fook Fah Yap ffy@eng.cam.ac.uk provided the fft and ifft functions and valuablebug reports for early versions.Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the developmentof 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 ofWisconsin-Madison.• Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their External ResearchProgram.• Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.• International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part of a grant tothe University of Texas College of Engineering.• Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the development of thissoftware.• The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a Challenge for ExcellenceResearch Supplement, and for providing an Academic Development Funds grant.• The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas Advanced TechnologyProgram under Grant No. 003658-078.• Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.• James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of ChemicalEngineering.• Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and usedto produce Octave.