About the Technical Reviewer

MARK BURGESS holds a first class honors degree in physics and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. After working as a physicist, he began to apply the methods of physics to the study of computers and eventually changed research fields to study the formalization of system administration. His current research interests include the behavior of computers as dynamic systems and applying ideas from physics to describe computer behavior. Mark is the author of the popular configuration management software package cfengine. He has received a number of awards including the SAGE 2003 Professional Contribution Award "for groundbreaking work in systems administration theory and individual contributions to the field." He currently holds the Professorship in Network and System Administration at Oslo University College.