Acknowledgments

I have many people to thank for this book coming to life. In not quite chronological order...

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David Stotts, my Ph.D. advisor who oversaw the birth of SPQR and the EDPs over many years; also my committee, who, even though they were convinced it was probably infeasible, thought it would be an interesting journey and let me go for the brass ring anyway: Jan Prins, David Plaisted, Al Segars, and Sid Chatterjee. You each added invaluable help at critical times.

From my years at IBM Watson Research in New York, Sid Chatterjee again, who convinced me to come play in the Big Blue Playpen; Clay Williams, who gave me free rein to pursue these crazy ideas further and with whom I still ...

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