Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following individuals for their help, support,
criticism, and exchange of ideas.
My thank you to Jerry Bennett, Research Analyst, Applied Research,
USAA, San Antonio, Texas; William (Bill) Combs, Computing Systems
Architect, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington; Bill Siler, Scientist,
Kemp-Carroway Heart Institute, Birmingham, Alabama; and Terry Hengl,
Publisher, and Robin Okun, Vice President of Marketing, PC/AI Maga-
zine, Phoenix, Arizona. I am particularly grateful to Terry and Robin for
permission to use parts of articles I wrote for their magazine exploring
some of the issues also raised in this book. I would also like to thank
Michael and Nadja O’Hagan, Fuzzy Logic Inc., La Jolla, California; Will