Scott Tilley is Professor & Director of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he also holds a cross-appointment as a Professor of Management Information Systems in the College of Business. He is a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. He is Principal of S.R. Tilley & Associates, an information technology consultancy based on Florida’s Space Coast. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria. He is Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Web Systems Evolution (WSE) series of events, Co-Chair of the SDM-DS Editorial Board, a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), and the Immediate Past Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC). He was General Chair for the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2008), which took take place in Beijing, China.