Work on Version 5 (January 2012-present) has been made possible by the support of:

	The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution established in 1934.
	The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet.

Work on Version 4 (May 2010-April 2011) was made possible by the generosity of the following donors:

	The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing is nationally recognized for excellence and leadership in Informatics programs, including undergraduate and graduate education, research, placement and outreach.
	The Gene Expression in Disease and Development Focus Group at Michigan State University is interested in training graduate students and post-docs in the latest bioinformatics techniques, and advancing the state of the art in genomic analysis.
	Microsoft Corporation is the manufacturer of the most widely used software in the world. Its products are used worldwide by all kinds of people, on all kinds of computers, for all kinds of things.
	MITACS is a national research network which connects academia with industry, government and not-for-profits through short and longer-term research projects.
	The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of Music & Audio Technology. This activity is funded by EPSRC Grant EP/H043101/1.
	Scimatic Software is a Toronto-based company that specializes in the development of software for the scientific community.
	SciNet is a High Performance Computing (HPC) consortium based at the University of Toronto which operates Canada”s largest supercomputer with 30,000 cores and supports researchers in a wide variety of disciplines from across the country.
	SHARCNET is a leading provider of HPC infrastructure and services for the advancement of world-class research and the training of computationally-expert individuals.
	The Software Sustainability Institute works with researchers to ensure the useful longevity of research software.
	The Met Office is the national meteorological service for the United Kingdom, providing quality meteorological and related services for the Government, the public, the armed forces, aviation and commercial customers.

Previous Sponsors

We would like to thank The MathWorks, the University of Toronto, the Python Software Foundation, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, whose support over the years has allowed us to help thousands of scientists use computers more productively.

Contributors

We are grateful to the following:

• Greg Wilson, the project lead.
• Orion Buske, Steve Crouch, Jonathan Dursi, Tommy Guy, Mike Jackson, Ainsley Lawson, Jason Montojo, Jon Pipitone, Rebecca Stewart, Noam Sutskever, Dominique Vuvan, Ethan White, and Luis Zarrabeitia for  creating material for Version 4.
• Everyone at The Hacker Within for their feedback and inspiration.
• Eric Jones and everyone else at Enthought, who provided a home for Version 2.
• Brent Gorda, who helped create an early version of this course.
• Andrew Lumsdaine and Peter Gottschling, who beta-tested this course in the fall of 2005.
• Nick Discenza, who did the diagrams for Version 3.
• Adam Goucher, who gave detailed feedback on every lecture in Version 2.

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