1 \chapter{Acknowledgments}
2 Many persons are contributing to the \faust project, by providing code for the compiler, architecture files, libraries, examples, documentation, scripts, bug reports, ideas, etc. I would like in particular to thank:
6 \item[-]Fons Adriaensen
8 \item[-]Thomas Charbonnel
10 \item[-]\'Etienne Gaudrin
12 \item[-]Stefan Kersten
13 \item[-]Victor Lazzarini
14 \item[-]Matthieu Leberre
16 \item[-]Kjetil Matheussen
18 \item[-]Nicolas Scaringella
19 \item[-]Stephen Sinclair
25 Many developments of the \faust project are now made within the \astree project (ANR 2008 CORD 003 02). I would like to thank my \astree's partners:
27 \item[-]J\'er\^ome Barth\'elemy (\ircam)
28 \item[-]Alain Bonardi (\ircam)
29 \item[-]Raffaele Ciavarella (\ircam)
30 \item[-]Pierre Jouvelot (\'Ecole des Mines/ParisTech)
31 \item[-]Laurent Pottier (U. Saint-Etienne)
33 as well as my colleagues at \textsc{Grame}, in particular : Dominique Fober, St\'ephane Letz and Karim Barkati.
36 I would like also to thank for their financial support:
38 \item[-]the French Ministry of Culture
39 \item[-]the Rh\^one-Alpes Region
40 \item[-]the City of Lyon
41 \item[-]the French National Research Agency (\textsc{Anr})