WE WOULD LIKE TO thank the Wiley team, our publisher, for being extremely helpful, understanding, and efficient with our project. Specifically, we would like to thank Sheck Cho and Susan Cerra. For topics like AI, there are many choices to partner with reputable publishers. We partnered with Wiley because of the excellent support we receive in all steps of the publishing process. One of the authors has published two other books on AI with Wiley and his experience has been excellent.

We would like to thank many of our colleagues for their valuable inputs and comments related to the American AI: Dale Rogers, Arizona State University, Bob Bruck, Applied Materials, Tom Maher, Dell, Jamie Butcher, Chemonics, Tom Derry, Institute of Supply Management, Paul Dillahay (CEO of NCI), Bridget Medeiros, (Bubba) Carlton Fox, Dr. Allen Badeau, Major General (Retired) Dale Meyerrose, Tom Albert, Dr. Hassan Abbas, Terry Wolff, Ron Raczkowski, Russ Malz, TK Gonsalves, Kirit Amin, Neil Callahan, Tiffany Parker, Aaron Morales (Senator Heinrich’s office), Senator Martin Heinrich, and Dr. Mark Munoz. Many thanks to the American Institute of Artificial Intelligence team for assisting with the research.

In addition, many thanks to all those authors whose work we have quoted.