5 Acknowledgments

The author wishes to acknowledge the eleven other members of the NIST Committee that has been meeting informally to consider the possibility of revising the NBS Handbook: Paul Boggs, Ron Boisvert, Charles Clark, Judy Devaney, Leonard Maximon, Bruce Miller, Peter Mohr, Frank Olver, John Rumble, Barry Schneider and Charles Sturrock.

The author wishes also to acknowledge Marjorie McClain and Bonita Saunders of NIST, and Yuri Rappoport of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They are active contributors to the project that is developing the Software Test Service for Special Functions, as are several of the people acknowledged above.

Further acknowledgment is due Richard Askey, Ross Barnett, Claude Brezinski, Bill Carlson, Walter Gautschi, Joe Jenkins, Kurt Kölbig, Ingram Olkin and Nico Temme. These are the non-NIST invitees to the Invitational Workshop on the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, which was held July 28-31, 1997, at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD.

Finally, acknowledgment is due to the many people from around the world who have communicated with the author in different ways.