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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 the :ref:`chapter-version-history`.
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