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- Maxima's development history spans three distinct periods: The
- research project at MIT, the stewardship of William Schelter and the
- current Maxima project.
-
- MACSYMA (Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System) was developed by
- the Mathlab group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- (originally known as Project MAC), during the years 1969-1972. Their
- work was supported by grants NSG 1323 of the National Aeronautics and
- Space Administration, N00014-77-C-0641 of the Office of Naval
- Research, ET-78-C-02-4687 of the U.S. Department of Energy, and
- F49620-79-C-020 of the U.S. Air Force. MACSYMA was further modified
- for use under the UNIX operating system (for use on DEC VAX computers
- and Sun workstations), by Richard Fateman and colleagues at the
- University of California at Berkeley; this version of MACSYMA is known
- as VAXIMA.
-
- William Schelter developed and maintained this version, Maxima, from
- the project's inception until his untimely death in 2001. We are
- eternally grateful for his enormous contribution.
-
- William Schelter thanked the following people for having tested
- the code under various common lisp implementations, and for helpful
- comments:
-
- hagiya%kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.junet%utokyo-relay.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
- (in kcl aosv)
- steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Steve on sun/franz common lisp)
- spar!malcolm@decwrl.dec.com (malcolm) sun/lucid
- raible@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eric Raible on iris(kcl))
- fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Fateman)
-
- As of November, 2001, the Maxima project is now supported by the work
- of a team of people led by James Amundson and Richard Fateman.
-
- The Maxima developers are:
-
- Jay Belanger
- David Billinghurst
- Mike Clarkson
- Steve Horne
- Wolfgang Jenkner
- Paulo Ney de Souza
- Dan Stanger
- Raymond Toy
- Cliff Yapp
- Vadim V. Zhytnikov
-
- Maxima include contributions from:
-
- Juan Pablo Hierro â”´lvarez
- Tim Moore
- Valerij Pipin
- Fedor Bezrukov
- Gosei Furuya
- Barton Willis
- Ole Rohne
- Thomas A. Russ
-
-
- Starting with version 5.9.0, Maxima uses mk::defsystem and (slightly
- modified) run-lisp from the Common Lisp Open Code Collection,
- <http://clocc.sourceforge.net>. The nregex code was written by
- Lawrence E. Freil.
-