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@@ -8,17 +8,16 @@ 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.
+work was entirely his.
 
 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.
+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}, Dr. Jeff Philips, who collaborated with
+my advisor on grant writing pertinent to this project, 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