Peter Meyers (editor) is the managing editor of O'Reilly Media's Missing Manual series. He lives with his wife, daughter, and cats in New York City. Email: meyers@oreilly.com.
Nellie McKesson(production editor) is a graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and spends her spare time making t-shirts for her friends to wear (mattsaundersbynellie.etsy.com). Email: nellie@oreilly.com.
Alison O'Byrne (copy editor) is a freelance editor from Dublin, Ireland. Alison has provided editorial services for corporate and government clients at home and internationally for over six years. Email: alison@alhaus.com. Web: www.alhaus.com.
Julie Hawks (indexer) has degrees in mathematics and library and information science. Much of her spare time is spent reading authors such as David Bohm, Ramana Maharshi, and Sri Nisargadatta as well as dreaming of traveling extensively through India. Email: juliehawks@gmail.com.
Esther Chung (technical reviewer) is a student of the brain at Wellesley College. She wishes to thank her good friend Shane Warden for his introduction, and Dawn Frausto for all her help during the tech review process.
Timo Hannay (technical reviewer) is a director at Nature Publishing Group, creators of Nature and other scientific journals, as well as a variety of online scientific resources. Among other things, he is the publisher of Nature.com, a co-organiser of Science Foo Camp, and a fluent Japanese speaker. He originally trained as a neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford, and as a biochemist at Imperial College London. Email:timo@hannay.net.
Jennifer Mangels (technical reviewer) is an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at Baruch College, a senior college of the City University of New York, where she is principle investigator of the Dynamic Learning Lab (www.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/jmangels). She also serves as Chief Research Officer for Lucid Systems Inc., a new company leveraging neuroscience methods in the domain of market research (www.lucidsystems.com). Because she has so much free time left over, she busies herself playing Balinese gamelan music.
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