Tony Collins is a computer journalist, author and broadcaster. The holder of several journalism awards, he has co-presented a BBC TV series which investigated computer disasters and his first non-fiction book, Open Verdict, on the mysterious deaths of computer scientists in the defence industry, was dramatized by th eBBC. In 1998 he was called to the House of Commons to give verbal evidence on the classic early warning signs of a computer disaster. He is executive editor of Computer Weekly, the UK's largest business newspaper.