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I would like to start by explaining how I came to write this book, and to acknowledge its influences and the help I have received along the way.

I have been extremely fortunate. I have a wonderful wife and two wonderful grown-up children, and I have had all but thirty years working for Shell, which provided an environment that had stimulating challenges and opportunities to look more deeply at problems than is often the case.

I first came across computers in 1971. My undergraduate course was in Chemical Engineering at Leeds University, and we all had to learn how to write basic Fortran programs in our first year. I went on to do a PhD, which involved mathematical modeling of chemical processes and led to my developing an automatic integrator for stiff ordinary differential equations. As a result I am probably among a relatively small group of people who have started a computer by loading the bootstrap program into memory from the switches to boot up the computer.

I joined Shell in 1978 at Shell Haven Refinery on the north bank of the Thames estuary, east of London. I was immediately thrown into the implementation of a computer supervision system for the Crude Distillation Unit, which monitored the hundreds of measurements taken around the unit and warned of deviations from target performance. I spent eight years at Shell Haven, and while I had a wide range of roles, computers and computing were a recurring theme. I was, for example, responsible for the purchase of the first IBM PC on the refinery, and one of the first in Shell for engineering calculations using a spreadsheet, and at the time I left the refinery I was responsible for all the mini-computer based systems on the refinery.

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