Acknowledgments
Dr. Kok would like to thank his wife Dr. Annie Ko, an extraordinary woman with abiding faith in Christianity. He has acknowledged her in his previous book for her enormous contributions to his life – and still do. He thanks her for her encouragement, and she created enough time for him to write the book while being granted with tenure and awarded the best teaching award in her university. She has been his inspiration and motivation for continuing to improve his knowledge and move his career forward.
Dr. Kok would also like to thank Dr. Cindy Tam for allowing him to put up with far too many side projects while writing this book. He appreciates her belief in him to provide the leadership and knowledge to make this book a reality. She has provided research insights along the way, working with him to complete each chapter with the appropriate MATLAB sources and analytic details through revision and re‐revision, pouncing on obscurities, decrying omissions, correcting misspelling, redrawing figures, and often making her life very much more difficult by his unrelenting insistence that the text and figures could be more literate, accurate, and intelligible. He is very pleased to see his illegible red marginalia have found their way into the text of this book. The last but not the least, he would like to thank her for contributing the beautiful photo of “BeBe” both as the designated simulation image source for all the examples and also the cover image of the book. This ...