Preface
Mark Twain is reported to have said, “An expert is just some guy from out of town.” As usual, Twain is on the mark in suggesting that there should be something suspicious about a stranger who shows up and offers to help us with his expertise and then quickly hits the road. For our purposes this apothegm could be slightly altered to make an expert out to be someone from out of town who has an opinion. The revised adage may say as much about communities of interest and the part they play today in deciding whom to trust as an expert as it says about experts and how they worked in Twain's era.
This book is all about expert witnesses, with particular attention paid to those who specialize in information technologies—the hardware, software, and ...
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