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Acknowledgments
Any work of this scope has had many helping hands. Originally, the chapter 5 material was conceived around published materials by Alan Smith (whose work I admire). As time went by, it was clear that his treatment had to be redone, but I have followed his design target miss data (DTMR data) in spirit. I have also had the opportunity to use unpublished material by George E. Rossmann and B. Rau. Again, it was my original intention to publish an edition much earlier. Their early contributions are now largely incorporated into several of the chapters in this book. I would like also to acknowledge generations of students who have contributed mightily to this project. I mention a few below.
George Zalewski, Tim Wood, Bill Wong, Verdi Wahjosoedibjo, Radha Vaidyanathan, Benjamin Jui-Shen Tseng, Thomas Truong, Evan Torrie, Evan Tick, Manu Thapar, Jon Sweedler, Kartik Subbarao, Brad Stone, Steven Speer, Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Polly Siegel, Eric Schwarz, Marc Schaub, Jim Richard, Brent Rasmussen, Arjun Prabhu, Peter Potrebic, Amol Patel, Bob Odineal, Kevin Nowka, Kianoosh Naghshineh, Michael Murray, Albert Mu, Dario Meluzzi, Devin Martin, Robert Mardjuki, Bill Lynch, Jack Loh, Albert Lddicoat, Bob Kutter, Ashok Kumar, Tsuneki Kojima, Scott Johnson, David Harris, Ricardo Gonzalez, Kevin Glass, Mike Frey, Todd Erdner, Van T. Dam, Brett Coon, Walter Clark, Jim Christy, Cheng Hwee Chee, David Chappell, Chip Chapin, Kashun Chan, David Carroll, Brian Carlton, Joe Butler, Amir Ben-Efraim, Hesham Al-Twaijry.
I have also received significant help from external reviewers. I especially acknowledge the detailed review of chapter 8 by Professor Josep Torrellas at the University of Illinois. Other reviewers also helped considerably. They include:
Professor Dharma AgrawalNorth Carolina State University
Professor Yitzhak BirkTechnion University
Dr. Pradeep DubeyIBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Professor Mark EvansUniversity of Michigan
Professor R. J. FlynnNY Polytechnic University
Professor Kai HwangUniversity of Southern California
Professor V. MilutinovicUniversity of Belgrade
Professor Trevor MudgeUniversity of Michigan

 
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