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About the Author

Hamish Meikle obtained a diploma in electrical engineering from Brighton Technical College in Sussex, England, in 1961. After a two-year graduate apprenticeship in Woolwich, England, with additional course work at Brunel University, he spent a short time working as a sales engineer for telephone transmission equipment, then went to Germany to work on radar and associated equipment. Since then, he has worked in the fields of operational research, radar systems, systems software, and associated fields as an independent systems consultant in...