Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to my husband, Howard, for helping me with the content of the book and providing me with endless encouragement (and cups of tea). The wheelbarrow design in the Smart Wheelbarrows Inc. case study came from Howard. He produced the drawings at the beginning of the chapter and explained which components would be necessary to build the wheelbarrow. He proofread most of the chapters before they were submitted, providing me with invaluable feedback.

I am extremely grateful to my technical reviewer, Richard Roiger, for agreeing to be part of this project, particularly as it was with short notice. We met through a mutual colleague at a data mining conference in Houston, Texas, in 2005 and later when I was visiting Minnesota ...

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