Acknowledgments

Rick would like to thank the many enlightened colleagues he has worked with over the years who have contributed to the vision of intelligent agents , me-centric user interfaces, and task-oriented problem-solving. Chief among these are the visionaries Allen Newell and Raj Reddy of Carnegie-Mellon University [2] and many DARPA leaders who promoted these possibilities long before they seemed practical. It seems obvious now that AI, intelligent interfaces, and the Internet, all developed with DARPA support for decades, will combine to transform our lives in profound and positive ways. Rick's former colleague, Bob Anderson of Rand Corporation [3] , started developing software around these ideas more than 20 years ago. Good novel things apparently take some time to ripen.

[2] http://www.cmu.edu/

[3] http://www.rand.org/

Daniel would like to thank first and foremost his wife, Sabine, who is supporting him now with his fourth book in three years. He would also like to thank his readers who provided invaluable feedback and all colleagues and customers who he has worked with and gained insight. Thanks also to Gabriel Seher of IBM [4] for his important input. Special thanks go to Jana and Mike for the trip to Lausanne.

[4] http://www.ibm.com/

Rick and Daniel would like to thank Pat Pekary of HP Press [5] and Jill Harry of Prentice Hall [6] for their invaluable support in getting this book completed. They would also like to thank Ralph E. Moore for his contribution in reducing the complexity of some parts of the text.

[5] http://www.hp.com/go/retailbooks/

[6] http://www.phptr.com/

If you would like to contact the authors, you can send an e-mail to Rick at rick@radicalsimplicity.com or to Danny at danny@radicalsimplicity.com. More information about the book and its topics can be found on the book's Web site at http://www.radicalsimplicity.com/.



Radical Simplicity. Transforming Computers Into Me-centric Appliances
Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into Me-centric Appliances (Hewlett-Packard Press Strategic Books)
ISBN: 0131002910
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 88

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