Acknowledgments

My thanks to the following Apress/Springer Science + Business Media representatives who took my rudimentary thoughts and polished them into acceptable literary form.

• Jeff Olson, the executive editor, who facilitated the smooth transition.

• Rita Fernando, the coordinating editor, who made the transition painless.

• Kezia Endsley, who copyedited the manuscript superbly.

• SPi International, which helped improve the drawings and figures in the book.

Without their help and assistance, the information would not have been nearly as clear or acceptable.