1Maxima's development history spans three distinct periods: The
2research project at MIT, the stewardship of William Schelter and the
3current Maxima project.
4
5MACSYMA (Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System) was developed by
6the Mathlab group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
7(originally known as Project MAC), during the years 1969-1972.  Their
8work was supported by grants NSG 1323 of the National Aeronautics and
9Space Administration, N00014-77-C-0641 of the Office of Naval
10Research, ET-78-C-02-4687 of the U.S. Department of Energy, and
11F49620-79-C-020 of the U.S. Air Force.  MACSYMA was further modified
12for use under the UNIX operating system (for use on DEC VAX computers
13and Sun workstations), by Richard Fateman and colleagues at the
14University of California at Berkeley; this version of MACSYMA is known
15as VAXIMA.
16
17William Schelter developed and maintained this version, Maxima, from
18the project's inception until his untimely death in 2001. We are
19eternally grateful for his enormous contribution.
20
21William Schelter thanked the following people for having tested
22the code under various common lisp implementations, and for helpful
23comments:
24
25hagiya%kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.junet%utokyo-relay.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
26  		(in kcl aosv)
27steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu  (Steve on sun/franz common lisp)
28spar!malcolm@decwrl.dec.com (malcolm) sun/lucid
29raible@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eric Raible on iris(kcl))
30fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Fateman)
31
32In November, 2001, the Maxima project moved to the Sourceforge
33project hosting site.
34
35As of April 2007, the Maxima developers are:
36
37James Amundson
38Jorge Barros de Abreu
39Jay Belanger
40David Billinghurst
41Marco Ciampa
42Douglas Crosher
43Robert Dodier
44Andreas Eder
45Andrey Grozin
46Yasuaki Honda
47Stavros Macrakis
48Camm Maguire
49Volker van Nek
50Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
51Juan Pablo Romero Bernal
52Dan Stanger
53Viktor Toth
54Raymond Toy
55Jaime Villate
56Andrej Vodopivec
57Barton Willis
58Cliff Yapp
59Vadim V. Zhytnikov
60
61Former developers as of April 2007:
62
63Mike Clarkson
64Steve Horne
65Judah Milgram
66Paulo Ney de Souza
67Sergey Semerikov
68Wolfgang Jenkner
69
70Maxima also includes contributions from:
71
72Michel van den Bergh
73Karl Berry
74Salvador Bosch P�rez
75Fedor Bezrukov
76Fabrizio Caruso
77Ari Constancio
78Gosei Furuya
79Juan Pablo Hierro �lvarez
80Vadim Konovalov
81Tim Moore
82Guenther Nowak
83Kostas Oikonomou
84Edmond Orignac
85Valerij Pipin
86Jose Ramirez Labrador
87Ole Rohne
88Thomas A. Russ
89Marek Rychlik
90Gunter K�nigsmann
91Wolfgang Dautermann
92
93Starting with version 5.9.0, Maxima uses mk::defsystem and (slightly
94modified) run-lisp from the Common Lisp Open Code Collection,
95<http://clocc.sourceforge.net>.
96
97The nregex code was written by Lawrence E. Freil.
98