Preface; CONTENTS; I. LHC toILC B. Barish; 1. Introduction and Physics; 2. The ILC Accelerator; 3. Detectors; 4. A Technically Driven Timeline for the ILC; II. Status of the CMS Experiment and First Physics A . De Roeck; 1. Introduction; 2. The CMS detector; 2.1. Tracker; 2.2. E…