Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the incredible team who together made this book possible.

Contributing Writers

Project Team

To be specific: Cynthia Yeung and Malika Cantor set schedules, organized reviewers, hired contractors, recruited other project members, badgered them to complete their tasks, and did whatever was necessary to get the book done. Tom Galloway proofread all the chapters and made suggestions for improvements. He was particularly helpful in pointing out places to break paragraphs into two separate thoughts. Julie Sussman, P.P.A., read every chapter and provided extensive improvements to content and to layout. In the first two editions we had proofreaders who would tell us when we left out a comma or said which when we meant that; Julie told us when we left out a minus sign or said xi when we meant xj.

Omari Stephens, an expert in both computer science and Adobe Illustrator, created or fixed many of the figures. Tracy Johnson at Pearson was our editor throughout, and got the book into production. Erin Ault and Rose Kernan at Pearson helped with the redesign of the text layout and the conversion of figures to color. The Google Summer of Code project supported students working on the online code and exercises. The mentors listed here contributed code themselves and allowed students to learn and grow. Nick Hay helped with the coding that processed the index files.

Errata

Thanks to the readers who took the time to send in corrections on the errata page: Andrea Rapuzzi, Andy Gaskell, Bora Eryilmaz, Darius Bacon, David Conner, Ed Durfee, Filippo Bindelli, James J. Buchanan, Joshua Cole, Joshua Reagan, Noah Topper, Takeshi Takahashi, Taylor Martin, Thomas Hickey, Victor Khaustov, Xavier Chelladurai, and Zenifer Cheruveettil.

Previous Editions

Several people who did not participate in this edition made important contributions to previous editions. John Canny wrote the robotics chapter for the first edition and Sebastian Thrun wrote part of the chapter for the third edition. Jon Barron, Tim Huang, Mark Paskin, and Cynthia Bruyns helped with diagrams and algorithms. Douglas Edwards did comprehensive research for the historical notes in the first edition.

Helpful Comments and Suggestions

It takes a global village to make a book. Over 600 people reviewed parts of the book (including previous editions) and made suggestions for improvement. We are grateful to all of them. We hope we have captured all the names here, and apologize to those we inadvertently missed:

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