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Finally, we tried to avoid proprietary names and tradenames where possible. Some
have crept in because of their importance, however.

Acknowledgments

A project of this scope literally requires hundreds of participants. I would like to take
this moment to thank these participants both collectively and individually. I thank,
in no particular order:
• The editorial board members and contributors. Although not all partici-
pated at an equal level, all contributed in some way to the production of
this work.
• Ron Powers, CRC President of Book Publishing, for conceiving this dictio-
nary, believing in me, and providing incredible support and encouragement.
• Frank MacCrory, Norma Trueblood, Nora Konopka, Carole Sweatman, and
my wife Nancy for converting, typing, and/or entering many of the terms.
• Jill Welch, Nora Konopka, Ron Powers, Susan Fox, Karen Feinstein, Joe
Ganzi, Gerry Axelrod, and others from CRC for editorial support.
• CRC Comprehensive Dictionary of Mathematics and CRC Comprehensive
Dictionary of Physics editor Stan Gibilisco for sharing many ideas with me.
• My friend Peter Gordon for many of the biographical entries.
• Lisa Levine for providing excellent copy editing of the final manuscript.
Finally to my wife Nancy and children Christopher and Charlotte for their incredible
patience and endurance while I literally spent hundreds of hours to enable the birth
of this dictionary. This achievement is as much theirs as it is mine.
Please accept my apologies if anyone was left out — this was not intentional and
will be remedied in future printings of this dictionary.

How to Report Errors/Omissions

Because of the magnitude of this undertaking and because we attempted to develop
new definitions completely from scratch, we have surely omitted (though not deliber-
ately) many terms. In addition, some definitions are possibly incomplete, weak, or even
incorrect. But we wish to evolve and improve this dictionary in subsequent printings
and editions. You are encouraged to participate in this collaborative, global process.
Please send any suggested corrections, improvements, or new terms to be added (along
with suggested definitions) to me at p.laplante@ieee.org or plaplante@pit.edu.
If your submission is incorporated, you will be recognized as a contributor in future
editions of the dictionary.

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