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Preface Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Ryan Tolboom for his authorship of the original web version of this text, and to the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) of the U.S. Department of Education for the Open Textbooks Pilot grant awarded to Middlesex College for the Open Textbook Collaborative which funded the first version of this text. The original author thanked the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Open Access Textbooks (OAT) project and the Open Textbook Collaborative Project (OTC)
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middlesexcc.libguides.com/OTCProject
for making this text possible, and I am grateful as well.
I would like to thank Berea College
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www.berea.edu
for the support for student internships and for the Berea College student interns, Elijah Babayemi, Colin Flaherty, Austin Gatewood, and Tristan Razote, who served as the first editors of this work and who helped to make this version more interactive. You can see their contibutions as well as those of others at github.com/pearcej/comp-sys-sec/forks
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github.com/pearcej/comp-sys-sec/forks
.
I would like to thank Rob Beezer for the creation of PreTeXt
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pretextbook.org
which is the authoring platform of this text and for his amazing level of responsiveness in the PreTeXt support channel. Additionally, I am very grateful to Oscar Levin both for his responsiveness in the Runestone Discord channels and for work in the creation of PreText converter for Pandoc
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pandoc.org
which made adaption much less time consuming.
Brad Miller deserves a hearty thanks for his work in creating Runestone Academy
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runestone.academy
where this book is hosted, and for his collaborative work with the PreTeXt
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pretextbook.org
authoring group.
Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Bob Fairchild, for his patience and for being my best friend.
The original author also acknowledged the contributions and hard work of: Karl Giannoglou, Jacob Jones, Raymond Vasquez, Justine Krawiec, Alison Cole, Ricky Hernandez, and Jake Caceres.