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-Travis Oliphant for the majority of code adaptation
-Jim Hugunin, Paul Dubois, Konrad Hinsen, David Ascher, and many others for
-    Numeric on which the code is based.
-Perry Greenfield, J Todd Miller, Rick White, Paul Barrett for Numarray
-    which gave much inspiration and showed the way forward.
-Paul Dubois for original Masked Arrays
-Pearu Peterson for f2py and numpy.distutils and help with code organization
-Robert Kern for mtrand, bug fixes, help with distutils, code organization,
-    and much more.
-Eric Jones for sundry subroutines
+Travis Oliphant for the NumPy core, the NumPy guide, various
+    bug-fixes and code contributions.
+Paul Dubois, who implemented the original Masked Arrays.
+Pearu Peterson for f2py, numpy.distutils and help with code
+    organization.
+Robert Kern for mtrand, bug fixes, help with distutils, code
+    organization, strided tricks and much more.
+Eric Jones for planning and code contributions.
 Fernando Perez for code snippets, ideas, bugfixes, and testing.
 Ed Schofield for matrix.py patches, bugfixes, testing, and docstrings.
-Robert Cimrman for array set operations and numpy.distutils help
-John Hunter for code snippets (from matplotlib)
+Robert Cimrman for array set operations and numpy.distutils help.
+John Hunter for code snippets from matplotlib.
 Chris Hanley for help with records.py, testing, and bug fixes.
-Travis Vaught, Joe Cooper, Jeff Strunk for administration of
-    numpy.org web site and SVN
+Travis Vaught for administration, community coordination and
+    marketing.
+Joe Cooper, Jeff Strunk for administration.
 Eric Firing for bugfixes.
-Arnd Baecker for 64-bit testing
+Arnd Baecker for 64-bit testing.
 David Cooke for many code improvements including the auto-generated C-API,
     and optimizations.
+Andrew Straw for help with the web-page, documentation, packaging and
+    testing.
 Alexander Belopolsky (Sasha) for Masked array bug-fixes and tests,
-    rank-0 array improvements, scalar math help and other code additions
-Francesc Altet for unicode and nested record tests
-    and much help with rooting out nested record array bugs.
+    rank-0 array improvements, scalar math help and other code additions.
+Francesc Altet for unicode, work on nested record arrays, and bug-fixes.
 Tim Hochberg for getting the build working on MSVC, optimization
-    improvements, and code review
-Charles Harris for the sorting code originally written for Numarray and
-    for improvements to polyfit, many bug fixes, and documentation strings.
-A.M. Archibald for no-copy-reshape code.
-David Huard for histogram improvements including 2-d and d-d code and
+    improvements, and code review.
+Charles (Chuck) Harris for the sorting code originally written for
+    Numarray and for improvements to polyfit, many bug fixes, delving
+    into the C code, release management, and documentation.
+David Huard for histogram improvements including 2-D and d-D code and
     other bug-fixes.
+Stefan van der Walt for numerous bug-fixes, testing and documentation.
 Albert Strasheim for documentation, bug-fixes, regression tests and
     Valgrind expertise.
-Stefan van der Walt for documentation, bug-fixes and regression-tests.
-Andrew Straw for help with http://www.scipy.org, documentation, and testing.
-David Cournapeau for scons build support, doc-and-bug fixes, and code contributions including fast_clipping.
-Pierre Gerard-Marchant for his rewrite of the masked array functionality.
+David Cournapeau for build support, doc-and-bug fixes, and code
+    contributions including fast_clipping.
+Jarrod Millman for release management, community coordination,
+    and cheerleading.
+Chris Burns for work on memory mapped arrays and bug-fixes.
+Pauli Virtanen for documentation, bug-fixes, lookfor and the
+     documentation editor.
+A.M. Archibald for no-copy-reshape code, strided array tricks,
+     documentation and bug-fixes.
+Pierre Gerard-Marchant for rewriting masked array functionality.
 Roberto de Almeida for the buffered array iterator.
+
+NumPy is based on the Numeric (Jim Hugunin, Paul Dubois, Konrad
+Hinsen, and David Ascher) and NumArray (Perry Greenfield, J Todd
+Miller, Rick White and Paul Barrett) projects.  We thank them for
+paving the way ahead.