About the Author

Dan Lewis has been a tenure-track faculty member at Santa Clara University since 1975. In 1988, his efforts led to the creation of the Computer Engineering department, and he served as its first department chair for the first 18 years. Prior to joining the University, Lewis worked for six years at General Electric's Aerospace Division where he developed a fault-tolerant clocking system for one of the first triple-redundant automatic landing systems for commercial aircraft. He has provided hardware and software consulting services for a number of Silicon Valley companies, worked extensively to improve K-12 education in computer science, and is the author of three textbooks on embedded software.