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==History==
Maxima is based on a 1982 version of [[Macsyma]], which was developed at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] with funding from the [[United States Department of Energy]] and other government agencies. A version of Macsyma was maintained by [[Bill Schelter]] from 1982 until his death in 2001. In 1998, Schelter obtained permission from the Department of Energy to release his version under the GPL. That version, now called Maxima, is maintained by an independent group of users and developers. Maxima does not include any of the many modifications and enhancements made to the commercial version of Macsyma during 1982–1999. Though the core functionality remains similar, code depending on these enhancements may not work on Maxima, and bugs which were fixed in Macsyma may still be present in Maxima, and vice versa. Maxima participated in [[Google Summer of Code]] in 2019 under [[International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://neuroinformatics.be/gsoc2019-completed/|title = GSOC 2019 completed successfully » Belgian Neuroinformatics}}</ref>