Professor Emeritus Dr. Harold "Bud" Lawson (The Institute of Technology at Linköping University) has been active in the computing and systems arena since 1958 and has broad international experience in private and public organizations as well as academic environments. Bud contributed to several pioneering efforts in hardware and software technologies. He has held professorial appointments at several universities in the USA, Europe, and the Far East. A Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and INCOSE, he was also head of the Swedish delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG7 from 1996 to 2004 and the elected architect of the ISO/IEC 15288 standard. In 2000, he received the prestigious IEEE Computer Pioneer Charles Babbage medal award for his 1964 invention of the pointer variable concept for programming languages. He has also been a leader in systems engineering. In 2016, he was recognized as a Systems Engineering Pioneer by INCOSE. He has published several books and was the coordinating editor of the "Systems Series" published by College Publications, UK.
Tragically, Harold Lawson passed away after battling an illness for almost a year, just weeks before the publication of this book.
