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\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}

The development of TPIE was supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under grants CCR-9007851 and EIA-9870734 and by the U.S.
Army Research Office under grants DAAL03-91-G-0035 and
DAAH04-96-1-0013.\comment{LA: Update before next distribution}

The authors would like to thank the following people for their
contributions to the development of TPIE; Jeff Vitter, Paul Natsev,
Eddie Grove, Roberto Tamassia, Yi-Jen Chiang, Mike Goodrich, Jyh-Jong
Tsay, Tom Cormen, Len Wisniewski, Liddy Shriver, David Kotz, Owen
Astrachan, Lipyeow Lim, Vasilis Samoladas, and Min Wang.

\comment{LA: There is some more text from Darren's ack. in here.}

%I would like to thank the following people for helpful discussions
%concerning algorithms and implementation techniques which influenced
%the development of TPIE: 
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%Jyh-Jong Tsay, 
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%\htmladdnormallink{Lars Arge}{%
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%\htmladdnormallink{Tom Cormen}{%
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%I would also like to thank the following people and institutions for
%providing access to the hardware on which TPIE design and development
%are ongoing: 
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%  Science}{http://www.cs.brown.edu}, 
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%for Sun Sparc 10s running
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%\htmladdnormallink{Duke University Department of Computer
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%for a variety of Sun workstations
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%Yale Patt\index{Patt, Yale} and the ACAL Lab in the 
%\htmladdnormallink{Department of Electrical Engineering and
%  Computer Science}{http://www.eecs.umich.edu} at the University of
%Michigan, 
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% for MIPS based DECstations
%running Ultrix.  

%Finally, I would like to thank 
%\htmladdnormallink{Owen Astrachan}{http://www.cs.duke.edu/\~ola/HomePage.html}
%\index{Astrachan, Owen}
%for his helpful discussions on some of the finer points of the C++
%language.
