Steve Shrimpton was born and educated in the UK and obtained a master's degree in physics from Southampton University. After a period teaching, he worked as a scientist with the Ministry of Defence and quickly became involved in airborne computing systems. He migrated to the USA and worked in defense and automotive systems in California for 12 years as a systems engineer, circuit designer, and software developer. He also developed a plug-in digital storage oscilloscope product for DOS 1.1! After a period of time in New Zealand teaching in a university, he settled in Sydney, Australia, where he...