ThanksAndAcknowledgments

#Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Matt Dunham for setting up the bnt.googlecode.com.

I would like to thank numerous people for bug fixes, including: Rainer Deventer, Michael Robert James, Philippe Leray, Pedrito Maynard-Reid II, Andrew Ng, Ron Parr, Ilya Shpitser, Xuejing Sun, Ursula Sondhauss.

I would like to thank the following people for contributing code: Pierpaolo Brutti, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Tamar Kushnir, Tom Murray, Nicholas Saunier, Ken Shan, Yair Weiss, Bob Welch, Ron Zohar.

The following Intel employees have also contributed code: Qian Diao, Shan Huang, Yimin Zhang and especially Wei Hu.

I would like to thank Stuart Russell for funding me over the years as I developed BNT, and Gary Bradksi for hiring me as an intern at Intel, which has supported much of the recent developments of BNT.