Acknowledgments

Thanks to Bill Putnam, former teaching assistant, for creating initial versions of many of the figures in this book, together with their associated Matlab scripts. Also, many of the figures pertaining to sinusoidal modeling (§9.4) were contributed by Music Ph.D. student Xavier Serra [216]. Thanks are also due to later teaching assistants Scott Levine [130] and Harvey Thornburg who developed lectures for the class that have been incorporated into the ongoing class material (and this book, particularly in Chapter 10). Teaching assistants Yi-Wen Liu and Pamornpol (Tak) Jinachitra contributed significantly to the laboratory exercises and theory problems, and Yi-Wen also developed the software used in §E.4.2.

Thanks to visiting scholar Mototsugu Abe, and graduate students Steven Backer, Edgar Berdahl, Ryan Cassidy, Patty Huang, Arvindh Krishnaswamy, Gautham Mysore, Ryan Said, Joelle Skaf, Matthew Wright, and Peter Wrycza for logging and reporting errata in earlier draft versions of this book. Thanks also to Bill Schottstaedt for especially helpful errata reporting and feedback. Thanks to Kyle Spratt for bringing references [47,251,56] to my attention, which greatly informed the historical summary in Appendix H.