Scott Tilley is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, a Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business, and an Associate Member of the Harris Institute for Assured Information. He is a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. 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 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 place in Beijing, China. He writes the weekly “Technology Today” column for the Florida Today newspaper.