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Acknowledgments

We thank DT and Computing Technology management for providing the opportunity to work on this exciting project. We are grateful to our department manager Tae Paik for his vision, inspiration, patience, and continuous encouragement during this project. We wish to acknowledge Tae Paik for the brainstorming session that helped us to come up with a run-time client-server model and Daaman Hejmadi who worked with Shesha Krishnapura (author) on the initial concept of a compile-time client-server model. Thanks to Sunil Bhasin and Gil Kleinfeld for applying the ITC Library to new applications. Thanks to Athena-NT Technical Working Group members for ratifying the technical concepts and documents. Special thanks to Tzvi Melamed, Greg Hannon, Chenwei Chiu, and Ming Lin for their technical feedback and encouragement during the development work. Thanks to Srini Rama for implementing parts of the run-time client-server utilities and conducting performance tests. Thanks to Athena and Nike development engineers who are using the compile-time and run-time technologies in their products.