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Acknowledgements ¶

The author of this manual expresses thanks to the following people who helped improve its quality:

• Bryan Barnes for
  • proofreading a number of sections in Introduction: What Is Intelligence?, Spur-Driven Behavior, Building Blocks for Intelligent Machines, and Animate Machines;
  • giving advice on improving the writing style.
• Karuna Shankar for
  • proofreading remaining sections in Introduction;
• Meirav Ben Moshe for
  • proofreading the introductory text of Adaptive Probabilistic Mapping and a set of sections in that chapter: Event History, Small and Large Actors, Incrementing Time, Incrementing Spur, Customizing the Relative Probability Function, Switching Adaptive or Random Behavior, and Example of Using the Actor API;
  • proofreading the introductory text of Multinode Model;
  • proofreading the introductory text of Defining Instruction Meta-Classes and a number of subsections in that section: Function Declaration, Registering the Function, Setting Text Instruction Parameters, and Function Layout;
  • proofreading the introductory text of Defining Instruction Class Sets and a number of subsections in that section: Function Declaration, Registering the Set, and Function Layout;
  • proofreading Switching Adaptive or Random Behavior, Associating Parameters with a Model, and Tracing Model Execution;
  • proofreading the introductory text of Assembler Programs and a set of sections in that chapter: Basic Datatypes, Assembler Program Syntax, and Assembler Instructions with all nested subsections;
  • explaining important points of English grammar.

  Meirav offers writing, proofreading, and Hebrew-English translation services. See her website, http://www.meiravb.com, for more information.

• Robert Booth for
  • proofreading Messages and Message Lists with all nested subsections;
  • proofreading Exchanging Data Packets in a Multithreaded Program [Experimental] with all nested subsections.