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+Academic work is never done in a vaccuum, and I owe thanks to several
+people whose advice and feedback have been invaluable over the course
+of the work described in this dissertation.
+
+First, and most obviously, I owe a lot to Dr. Dong Xie for serving as
+my advisor.  We haven't always seen eye to eye on what the appropriate
+priorities of this work should be, and he has been very patient in the
+face of my grumbling.  While this project branched out into something
+far larger than the mere journal extension to his SIRS paper that he
+had originally envisioned, the original idea that spawned this line of
+work was entirely his.  On that note, thanks are also owed to Dr. Jeff
+Philips for originally pointing us in the direction of the dynamization
+work by Bentley, Saxe, and Overmars.
+
+Other academic collegues that are deserving of mention here are
+Dr. Ryan Stutsman, whose advice on techniques for representing
+tail latency distributions was absolutely critical to the work
+described in Chapter~\ref{chap:tail-latency}, and Dr. Zhuoyue Zhao,
+who collaborated directly with us on the work that ultimately became
+Chapter~\ref{chap:framework}. Chapter~\ref{chap:design-space} has been
+influenced, in part, by conversations with Dr. Niv Dayan.
+
+I also owe thanks to several of my fellow PhD students.  The fact that
+this document is even vaguely coherent is due in large part to Julia
+Custatis's attention to detail. Maxwell Norfolk and Jinyu Liu (as well
+as Julia) all got to suffer through being used as sounding boards for
+various assortments of my harebrained ideas. Along those same lines,
+Dr. Jack Sampson was instrumental to the maintenance of my sanity over
+these past few years.
+
+Thanks everyone. I could have never done this without you.