Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals for their assistance with making this third edition of LabVIEW for Everyone possible:

To Bernard Goodwin, our editor at Pearson, who encouraged us to write this updated third edition and who held us to our deadlines.

To the fine folks at National Instruments who assisted with the book by providing resources, technical reviews, artwork, and their time. In particular, we'd like to especially thank Craig Anderson, Jim Cahow, Zaki Chasmawala, David Corney, Crystal Drumheller, David Gardner, Stephen Mercer, Darren Natinger, Jeff Peters, and Brian Tyler.

To the LabVIEW gurus who reviewed our manuscript, and caught all our mistakes (we hope!) before it went to print: Mike Ashe, John Compton-Smith, Ed Dickens, Jean-Pierre Drolet, Crystal Drumheller, Kostya Shifershteyn, Paul Sullivan, and Ashish Uttarwar.

To Michael Aivaliotis for maintaining the LAVA (LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects) discussion forums on the Web (forums.lavag.org) and the community of LAVA members who make this forum so great. We regularly used this incredibly useful resource throughout the writing of this third edition for discussing technical topics and polling the community of LabVIEW users on key topics.

Jim would like to especially acknowledge, first and foremost, his wife Beth, who not only put up with, but also provided tremendous support in, his writing of this third edition. And also to his family, friends, and co-workers for their support and understanding during the many long months he spent in seclusion while working on the manuscript and for welcoming him back upon its completion.