Les Hatton M.A, M.Sc., LL.M., Ph.D. is Professor of Forensic Software Engineering at Kingston University in the UK. After studying mathematics at King's College Cambridge and Manchester Universities, he was a recipient of the Conrad Schlumberger Award as a geophysicist before his research interests led him to a career studying failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems. He has subsequently been cited as one of the leading scholars of systems and software engineering. www.leshatton.org.