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Huge Thank Yous to Everyone on this List!

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huge thanks to the following people, without whom none of this effort would be possible:

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My entire family: parents, sister, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. I love you all.
All of my teachers, assistants, coaches and professors over the years.
My friends.
Those who put the infrastructure in place and those who maintain it.

Les Paul for the electric guitar.

Those who create the sophisticated information system on which I work:

Linus Torvalds : the linux kernel
Richard Stallman : GNU system utils
Joerg Schilling : Schily's USER COMMANDS cdparanoia mkisofs cdrecord
Alan Cox : linux kernel, networking code
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie : the C language
Bjarne Stroustrup : the C++ language
Rémy Card : the Ext2 filesystem

{
Jack Kilby
Robert Noyce
Thomas Edison
Edmond Becquerel
Ferdinand Braun
Michael Faraday
JJ Thompson
Robert Millikan
Lee De Forest
Niels Bohr
William B. Shockley
George Boole
Alan M. Turing
John von Neumann
Bertrand Russell
Ernest Rutherford
James Clerk Maxwell
Isaac Newton
Jules Verne
John A. Fleming
} : the monolithic microchip



...And the many people I have forgotten to mention above.