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| Acknowledgements | |
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| A number of people have helped with the development and open sourcing | |
| of Ceres. | |
| Fredrik Schaffalitzky when he was at Google started the development of | |
| Ceres, and even though much has changed since then, many of the ideas | |
| from his original design are still present in the current code. | |
| Amongst Ceres' users at Google two deserve special mention: William | |
| Rucklidge and James Roseborough. William was the first user of | |
| Ceres. He bravely took on the task of porting production code to an | |
| as-yet unproven optimization library, reporting bugs and helping fix | |
| them along the way. James is perhaps the most sophisticated user of | |
| Ceres at Google. He has reported and fixed bugs and helped evolve the | |
| API for the better. | |
| Since the initial release of Ceres, a number of people have | |
| contributed to Ceres by porting it to new platforms, reporting bugs, | |
| fixing bugs and adding new functionality. We acknowledge all of these | |
| contributions in :ref:`chapter-version-history`. |