Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of all those who made this book possible. First, I would like to thank Noopur Davis, Chad Dougherty, Doug Gwyn, David Keaton, Fred Long, Nancy Mead, Robert Mead, Gerhard Muenz, Rob Murawski, Daniel Plakosh, Jason Rafail, David Riley, Martin Sebor, and David Svoboda for contributing chapters to this book. I would also like to thank the following researchers for their contributions: Omar Alhazmi, Archie Andrews, Matthew Conover, Jeffrey S. Gennari, Oded Horovitz, Poul-Henning Kamp, Doug Lea, Yashwant Malaiya, John Robert, and Tim Wilson.

I would also like to thank SEI and CERT managers who encouraged and supported my efforts: Jeffrey Carpenter, Jeffrey Havrilla, Shawn Hernan, Rich Pethia, and Bill Wilson.

Thanks also to my editor, Peter Gordon, and to the folks at Addison-Wesley: Jennifer Andrews, Kim Boedigheimer, John Fuller, Eric Garulay, Stephane Nakib, Elizabeth Ryan, and Barbara Wood.

I would also like to thank everyone who helped develop the Open Learning Initiative course, including the learning scientist who helped design the course, Marsha Lovett, and everyone who helped implement the course, including Norman Bier and Alexandra Drozd.

I would also like to thank the following reviewers for their thoughtful comments and insights: Tad Anderson, John Benito, William Bulley, Corey Cohen, Will Dormann, William Fithen, Robin Eric Fredericksen, Michael Howard, Michael Kaelbling, Amit Kalani, John Lambert, Jeffrey Lanza, David LeBlanc, Ken MacInnis, Gary McGraw, Randy Meyers, Philip Miller, Patrick Mueller, Dave Mundie, Craig Partridge, Brad Rubbo, Tim Shimeall, Michael Wang, and Katie Washok.

I would like to thank the remainder of the CERT team for their support and assistance, without which I would never have been able to complete this book. And last but not least, I would like to thank our in-house editors and librarians who helped make this work possible: Rachel Callison, Pamela Curtis, Len Estrin, Eric Hayes, Carol J. Lallier, Karen Riley, Sheila Rosenthal, Pennie Walters, and Barbara White.