Richard W. Selby is an Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland in 1985. He has published over 60 technical and management articles on software engineering, focusing on software quality and process improvement, software measurement and analysis, and software tools and environments. He has received over $9 million in research funding from DARPA, National Science Foundation, and industrial sponsors including IBM, TRW, Hughes, and NASA. He has consulted worldwide for numerous commercial, defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and government organizations. He founded Amadeus Software Research, Inc., which develops and distributes a market-leading software measurement tool. He has held visiting faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Osaka University, Japan. He is the co-author of the book Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People, Simon and Schuster, October 1995. The Microsoft Secrets book was ranked as the #6 best-selling hardcover business book by Business Week (11/27/95 issue).