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):
84 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
103 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
124 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
146 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
164 Jorge Barros de Abreu
168 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
185 Jorge Barros de Abreu
189 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
207 Jorge Barros de Abreu
210 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
224 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
242 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
259 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
278 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
298 Juan Pablo Romero Bernal
299 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
321 Jorge Barros de Abreu
322 Juan Pablo Romero Bernal
323 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
341 Jorge Barros de Abreu
342 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
358 Jorge Barros de Abreu
359 Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
416 Maxima also includes contributions from:
425 Juan Pablo Hierro Álvarez
432 Jose Ramirez Labrador
437 Starting with version 5.9.0, Maxima uses mk::defsystem and (slightly
438 modified) run-lisp from the Common Lisp Open Code Collection,
439 <http://clocc.sourceforge.net>.
441 The nregex code was written by Lawrence E. Freil.
443 We also want to say thank you to everyone who sent patches,
444 reported bugs or suggested new features.