' like to thank the keras community for making this book possible keras has grown to have hundreds of open source contributors and more than , users your contributions and feedback have turned keras into what it is today ' also like to thank google for backing the keras project it has been fantastic to see keras adopted as tensorflow' high-level api smooth integration between keras and tensorflow greatly benefits both tensorflow users and keras users and makes deep learning accessible to most want to thank the people at manning who made this book possiblepublisher marjan bace and everyone on the editorial and production teamsincluding christina taylorjanet vailtiffany taylorkatie tennantdottie marsicoand many others who worked behind the scenes many thanks go to the technical peer reviewers led by aleksandar dragosavljevic -diego acuna rozasgeoff bartodavid blumenthal-barbyabel brownclark dormanclark gaylordthomas heimanwilson marsumit palvladimir pasmangustavo patinopeter rabinovitchalvin rajclaudio rodriguezsrdjan santicrichard tobiasmartin verzilliwilliam wheelerand daniel williams--and the forum contributors their contributions included catching technical mistakeserrors in terminologyand typosand making topic suggestions each pass through the review process and each piece of feedback implemented through the forum topics shaped and molded the manuscript on the technical sidespecial thanks go to jerry gaineswho served as the book' technical editorand alex ott and richard tobiaswho served as the book' technical proofreaders they're the best technical editors could have hoped for finallyi' like to express my gratitude to my wife maria for being extremely supportive throughout the development of keras and the writing of this book xv licensed to