1 Maxima's development history spans three distinct periods: The
2 research project at MIT, the stewardship of William Schelter and the
3 current Maxima project.
5 MACSYMA (Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System) was developed by
6 the Mathlab group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
7 (originally known as Project MAC), during the years 1969-1972. Their
8 work was supported by grants NSG 1323 of the National Aeronautics and
9 Space Administration, N00014-77-C-0641 of the Office of Naval
10 Research, ET-78-C-02-4687 of the U.S. Department of Energy, and
11 F49620-79-C-020 of the U.S. Air Force. MACSYMA was further modified
12 for use under the UNIX operating system (for use on DEC VAX computers
13 and Sun workstations), by Richard Fateman and colleagues at the
14 University of California at Berkeley; this version of MACSYMA is known
17 William Schelter developed and maintained this version, Maxima, from
18 the project's inception until his untimely death in 2001. We are
19 eternally grateful for his enormous contribution.
21 William Schelter thanked the following people for having tested
22 the code under various common lisp implementations, and for helpful
25 hagiya%kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.junet%utokyo-relay.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
27 steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Steve on sun/franz common lisp)
28 spar!malcolm@decwrl.dec.com (malcolm) sun/lucid
29 raible@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eric Raible on iris(kcl))
30 fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Fateman)
33 In November, 2001, the Maxima project moved to the Sourceforge
34 project hosting site. The following people contributed to the Maxima
35 sourcecode (according to Git logs):
104 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
123 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
144 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
166 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
184 Jorge Barros de Abreu
188 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
205 Jorge Barros de Abreu
209 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
227 Jorge Barros de Abreu
230 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
244 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
262 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
279 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
298 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
318 Juan Pablo Romero Bernal
319 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
341 Jorge Barros de Abreu
342 Juan Pablo Romero Bernal
343 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
361 Jorge Barros de Abreu
362 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
378 Jorge Barros de Abreu
379 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
436 Maxima also includes contributions from:
445 Juan Pablo Hierro Álvarez
452 Jose Ramirez Labrador
457 Starting with version 5.9.0, Maxima uses mk::defsystem and (slightly
458 modified) run-lisp from the Common Lisp Open Code Collection,
459 <http://clocc.sourceforge.net>.
461 The nregex code was written by Lawrence E. Freil.
463 We also want to say thank you to everyone who sent patches,
464 reported bugs or suggested new features.