From the Back Cover:

Mike Rosing's career spans high energy physics to telephone switch engineering. Working at Argonne National Lab as a high-energy physicist, he helped construct a Wakefield particle accelerator. For the past 20 years he worked in several companies on various projects, including developing vision devices for the blind, radar for measuring heart rate in cattle, and modelling high speed signalling on computer boards. He holds a patent and is author on many technical publications.