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time,
one of the
Chapters
14,16,
or 17 can be
added,
or
4.1-4.2.
A
graduate
course
could
additionally deal with
the
more advanced parts
of
Chapters 3,4,
and 5. The
remaining chapters provide ample material
for
specialized courses
and
seminars.
As
a
general time-saving rule,
we
recommend reading
the
first
chapter
and
then
jumping directly
to the
chapter
of
particular interest
to the
reader. Chances
are
that this will lead
to a
chapter that contains references
to the
earlier
ones,
which
can
then
be
followed
as
desired.
We
hope that this way, readers will inadvertently
be
tempted
to
venture into some
of the
less frequented chapters
and
research areas.
Explore
this
book; there
is a lot to find, and
much more
is yet to be
discovered
in
the field of
learning with kernels.
We
conclude
the
preface
by
thanking those
who
assisted
us in the
prepara-
tion
of the
book.
Our
first
thanks
go to our
first
readers. Chris Burges, Arthur
Gretton,
and Bob
Williamson have read through various
versions
of the
book,
and
made numerous suggestions that corrected
or
improved
the
material.
A
number
of
other researchers have
proofread
various chapters.
We
would like
to
thank Matt
Beal,
Daniel Berger, Olivier Bousquet,
Ben
Bradshaw, Nicolo Cesa-
Bianchi,
Olivier Chapelle, Dennis DeCoste, Andre
Elisseeff,
Anita Faul, Arnulf
Graf,
Isabelle Guyon,
Ralf
Herbrich, Simon
Hill,
Dominik Janzing, Michael Jordan,
Sathiya Keerthi, Neil Lawrence,
Ben
O'Loghlin, Ulrike
von
Luxburg, Davide Mat-
tera, Sebastian Mika, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Marta Milo, Klaus Muller, Dave
Mu-
sicant, Fernando Perez Cruz, Ingo Steinwart, Mike Tipping,
and
Chris Williams.
In
addition,
a
large number
of
people have contributed
to
this book
in one
way
or
another,
be it by
sharing their
insights
with
us in
discussions,
or by
col-
laborating with
us on
some
of the
topics covered
in the
book.
In
many places,
this strongly influenced
the
presentation
of the
material.
We
would like
to
thank
Dimitris Achlioptas, Luis Almeida, Shun-Ichi Amari, Peter Bartlett, Jonathan Bax-
ter,
Tony
Bell,
Shai Ben-David, Kristin Bennett, Matthias Bethge, Chris Bishop,
Andrew
Blake,
Volker
Blanz, Leon Bottou, Paul Bradley, Chris Burges, Hein-
rich
Bulthoff,
Olivier
Chapelle,
Nello
Cristianini,
Corinna Cortes, Cameron Daw-
son,Tom
Dietterich, Andre
Elisseeff,
Oscar
de
Feo, Federico Girosi, Thore Graepel,
Isabelle Guyon, Patrick
Haffner,
Stefan
Harmeling, Paul Hayton, Markus Heg-
land,
Ralf
Herbrich, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael Jordan,
Jyrki
Kivinen,
Yann
LeCun,
Chi-Jen
Lin, Gabor Lugosi, Olvi Mangasarian, Laurent Massoulie, Sebastian Mika,
Sayan
Mukherjee,
Klaus Muller, Noboru Murata, Nuria Oliver, John Platt, Tomaso
Poggio, Gunnar Ratsch, Sami Romdhani, Rainer
von
Sachs, Christoph Schnorr,
Matthias Seeger, John Shawe-Taylor, Kristy Sim, Patrice Simard, Stephen Smale,
Sara
Solla, Lionel Tarassenko, Lily Tian, Mike Tipping, Alexander Tsybakov,
Lou
van den
Dries,
Santosh Venkatesh, Thomas
Vetter,
Chris Watkins, Jason Weston,
Chris Williams,
Bob
Williamson, Andreas Ziehe,
Alex
Zien,
and
Tong Zhang.
Next,
we
would like
to
extend
our
thanks
to the
research institutes that allowed
us to
pursue
our
research interests
and to
dedicate
the
time necessary
for
writing
the
present book;
these
are
AT&T
/
Bell
Laboratories (Holmdel),
the
Australian
National University (Canberra),
Biowulf
Technologies (New
York),
GMD
FIRST
(Berlin),
the
Max-Planck-Institute
for
Biological Cybernetics (Tubingen),
and Mi-
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