xX e The Webmind Diehards, who helped begin the Novamente project that succeeded Webmind beginning in 2001: Cassio Pennachin, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, Takuo Henmi, Matthew Ikle’, Thiago Maia, Andre Senna, Guilherme Lamacie and Saulo Pinto e Those who helped get the Novamente project off the ground and keep it progressing over the years, including some of the Webmind Diehards and also Moshe Looks, Bruce Klein, Izabela Lyon Freire, Chris Poulin, Murilo Queiroz, Predrag Janicic, David Hart, Ari Heljakka, Hugo Pinto, Deborah Duong, Paul Prueitt, Glenn Tarbox, Nil Geisweiller and Cassio Pennachin (the co-authors of this book), Sibley Verbeck, Jeff Reed, Pejman Makhfi, Welter Silva, Lukasz Kaiser and more e All those who have helped with the OpenCog system, including Linas Vepstas, Joel Pitt, Jared Wigmore / Jade O’Neill, Zhenhua Cai, Deheng Huang, Shujing Ke, Lake Watkins, Alex van der Peet, Samir Araujo, Fabricio Silva, Yang Ye, Shuo Chen, Michel Drenthe, Ted Sanders, Gustavo Gama and of course Nil and Cassio again. Tyler Emerson and Eliezer Yudkowsky, for choosing to have the Singularity Institute for AI (now MIRI) provide seed funding for OpenCog. e The numerous members of the AGI community who have tossed around AGI ideas with me since the first AGI conference in 2006, including but definitely not limited to: Stan Franklin, Juergen Schmidhuber, Marcus Hutter, Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, Stephen Reed, Blerim Enruli, Kristinn Thorisson, Joscha Bach, Abram Demski, Itamar Arel, Mark Waser, Randal Koene, Paul Rosenbloom, Zhongzhi Shi, Steve Omohundro, Bill Hibbard, Eray Ozkural, Brandon Rohrer, Ben Johnston, John Laird, Shane Legg, Selmer Bringsjord, Anders Sandberg, Alexei Samsonovich, Wlodek Duch, and more e The inimitable "Artilect Warrior" Hugo de Garis, who (when he was working at Xiamen University) got me started working on AGI in the Orient (and introduced me to my wife Ruiting in the process). And Changle Zhou, who brought Hugo to Xiamen and generously shared his bri