Acknowledgments

The task of writing this book would not have been possible without the support of many individuals. At the risk of unintentionally leaving some out, I want to thank the following for their guidance, time, and help discussing and improving the content.

Thanks to Michael Morgan at Morgan & Claypool for inviting me to write this book as well as Natalie Enright Jerger, Christine Kiilerich, and C.L. Tondo for their continuous encouragement and excellent support throughout the writing and publishing process. Thanks to Parthasarathy Ranganathan for his guidance and for introducing me to Michael and Natalie.

Thanks to Cliff Young, Natalie Enright Jerger, Nikhil Murthy, Nicholas Lee, and Joanne Yuan for providing detailed comments that were invaluable in improving the entire manuscript.

Thanks to Robert Zak, Wolff Daniel Dobson, Vinay Phegade, Roman Dubtsov, Kreig DuBose, Matthew Brookhart, Chinnikrishna Kothapalli, Steven (Cap) Rogers, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Carlos Escapa, Tatiana Shpeisman, Vijayakumar (Kumar) Bhagavatula, Mourad Gouicem, AG Ramesh, Jian Hui Li, Romir Desai, Vadim Pirogov, Michael Goldsmith, Chris Browning, Gal Novik, Sherine Abdelhak, Abigail Wen, Md Faijul Amin, Tristan Webb, Marcel Nassar, Koichi Yamada, Anna Bethke, Ivan Kuzmin, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Mariano Phielipp, Brian Retford, Tiffany Shih, Jayaram Bobba, Edward Groden, Anthony Reina, Bin Wei, Jacek Czaja, Etay Meiri, Luke Ge, Ran Cohen, Derek Osborne, Jayarama Shenoy, Michael Greenfield, Madhusudhan Rangarajan, Eric Lin, Lei Xia, Albert Hu, Brinda Ganesh, Diego Caballero, Tatyana Primak, Naveen Mellempudi, Mohammad Ashraf Bhuiyan, Rajesh Poornachandran, Rinat Rappoport, Xin Wang, Yoann Foucher, Pujiang He, Jun Jin, Eric Gardner, Adam Straw, Scott Cyphers, Brian Golembiewski, Clayne Robison, Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Ravi Panchumarthy, Patric Zhao, Derssie Mebratu, Anisha Gartia, Shamima Najnin, Rajendrakumar Chinnaiyan, Zhenlin Luo, Chris Banyai, Vinod Devarampati, Alex Heinecke, Evarist Fomenko, Milind Pandit, Lei Shao, Yong Wu, Sameh Gobriel, Andrey Nikolaev, Nawab Ali, Bernhard Friebe, Nikhil Deshpande, Shashikant Kale, Amir Gholaminejad, Indu Kalyanaraman, and Greg Leeming for their excellent comments on portions of the book relevant to their respective expertise, the discussions to ensure correctness, or proofreading early drafts to improve clarity. Thanks to Roberto Gauna and Travis Belnap for their assistance making and improving many of the figures.

My biggest thanks goes to Mary-Kathryn for her unwavering friendship and fervent support, which made the writing of this book possible. And my second biggest thanks to our children Isabel, Tomas, and David, who inspire me, and who were patient and forgiving when Papi was busy writing and could not play. This book is dedicated to you. May the progress in artificial intelligence and deep learning systems make the world for you and your generation a better place.