Ted Lewis is currently Chairman of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., and President/Owner of Technology Assessment Group, (TAG), a private company dedicated to tailored research and analysis of computer systems technology with emphasis on the software industry. His March 1996 Upside magazine article, "Surviving the Software Economy" has generated provocative discussion about the "new economy" of the Internet. Lewis holds advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science and has over 30 years' experience with computers, including recently designing client/server systems, video teleconferencing systems for distance learning, defining software products for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and product definitions of World Wide Web delivery systems. During the past year, Lewis has performed consulting jobs for Bay Networks, IBM, Hitachi, NCR, Boehringer-Mannheim, Samsung, and DaimlerBenz AG under the TAG logo. He occassionally consults for governments of Taiwan, Egypt, Mexico, and Italy in the areas of economic development and technology development parks. Since graduation from Washington State University (Ph.D. 1971), he has been on the faculty of Computer Science at University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Southwestern Louisiana - Lafayette, Oregon State University - Corvallis, and the Naval Postgraduate School - Monterey, CA. He is the author of many books spanning 20 years: most recently - Client/Server Yellow Pages (Prentice-Hall/Manning, 1995), Object-Oriented Application Frameworks (Prentice-Hall/Manning 1994), Deploying Distributed Business Software (SIGS Books, 1996). He wrote the first personal computer trade book, "How To Profit From Your Personal Computer", Hayden Books, 1976. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software Magazine 1987­p;1990, Computer Magazine 1993­p;1994, Editorial Board member of IEEE Spectrum Magazine 1990­p;1993, and is on the Governing Board of the Computer Society. He is a partner in SpinDoc, a webzine for computing trends (www.spindoczine.com), writes a bi-monthly column for IEEE Computer magazine, and a quarterly column for Science and Engineering Network News. Lewis developed one of the first database management packages for the IBM PC, in 1983. Later, in 1984­p;5 he was Vice President of Dilithium Press Publishing Company, Beaverton, OR, which was a very successful publisher of personal computer books in the early 1980s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lewis formed his own small consulting company to develop and market programming language translation tools, which were widely used by software companies such as Borland, Aldus, Mentor Graphics, and IBM. More recently, Lewis formed TAG to respond to individualized and personalized needs of executives in the software industry. You can reach him via email at tedglewis@friction-free-economy.com.