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Acknowledgments

Numerous people have helped in various ways to ensure that we achieved the best possible outcome for this

book. We would especially like to thank the following:

Colin Aitken, Carol Alexander, Peter Ayton, David Balding, Beth Bateman, George Beareld, Daniel

Berger, Nic Birtles, Robin Bloomeld, Bill Boyce, Rob Calver, Neil Cantle, Patrick Cates, Chris Chapman,

Xiaoli Chen, Keith Clarke, Julie Cooper, Robert Cowell, Anthony Constantinou, Paul Curzon, Phil

Dawid, Chris Eagles, Shane Cooper, Eugene Dementiev, Itiel Dror, John Elliott, Phil Evans, Ian Evett,

Geir Fagerhus, Simon Forey, Duncan Gillies, Jean-Jacques Gras, Gerry Graves, David Hager, George

Hanna, David Hand, Roger Harris, Peter Hearty, Joan Hunter, Jose Galan, Steve Gilmour, Shlomo Gluck,

James Gralton, Richard Jenkinson, Adrian Joseph, Ian Jupp, Agnes Kaposi, Paul Kaye, Kevin Korb, Paul

Krause, Dave Lagnado, Helge Langseth, Steffen Lauritzen, Robert Leese, Peng Lin, Bev Littlewood, Paul

Loveless, Peter Lucas, Bob Malcom, Amber Marks, David Marquez, William Marsh, Peter McOwan, Tim

Menzies, Phil Mercy, Martin Newby, Richard Nobles, Magda Osman, Max Parmar, Judea Pearl, Elena

Perez-Minana, Andrej Peitschker, Ursula Martin, Shoaib Qureshi, Lukasz Radlinksi, Soren Riis, Edmund

Robinson, Thomas Roelleke, Angela Saini, Thomas Schulz, Jamie Sherrah, Leila Schneps, David Schiff,

Bernard Silverman, Adrian Smith, Ian Smith, Jim Smith, Julia Sonander, David Spiegelhalter, Andrew

Stuart, Alistair Sutcliffe, Lorenzo Strigini, Nigel Tai, Manesh Tailor, Franco Taroni, Ed Tranham, Marc

Trepanier, Keith van Rijsbergen, Richard Tonkin, Sue White, Robin Whitty, Rosie Wild, Patricia Wiltshire,

Rob Wirszycz, David Wright and Barbaros Yet.