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| 4 | Acknowledgements |
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| 7 | A number of people have helped with the development and open sourcing |
| 8 | of Ceres. |
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| 10 | Fredrik Schaffalitzky when he was at Google started the development of |
| 11 | Ceres, and even though much has changed since then, many of the ideas |
| 12 | from his original design are still present in the current code. |
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| 14 | Amongst Ceres' users at Google two deserve special mention: William |
| 15 | Rucklidge and James Roseborough. William was the first user of |
| 16 | Ceres. He bravely took on the task of porting production code to an |
| 17 | as-yet unproven optimization library, reporting bugs and helping fix |
| 18 | them along the way. James is perhaps the most sophisticated user of |
| 19 | Ceres at Google. He has reported and fixed bugs and helped evolve the |
| 20 | API for the better. |
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| 22 | Since the initial release of Ceres, a number of people have |
| 23 | contributed to Ceres by porting it to new platforms, reporting bugs, |
| 24 | fixing bugs and adding new functionality. We acknowledge all of these |
| 25 | contributions in :ref:`chapter-version-history`. |
