History
Axiom has been in development since 1971, originally as Scratchpad by researchers at IBM under the direction of Richard Dimick Jenks. Other key early developers were Barry Trager, Stephen Watt, James Davenport, Robert Sutor, and Scott Morrison.
In the 1990s it was sold to NAG and given its current name. In 2001 it was withdrawn from the market and re-released under the Modified BSD License. Since then, the project lead developer has been Tim Daly.
In 2007, Axiom was forked into two different open-source projects: OpenAxiom, and FriCAS.
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