Al Stevens lives and works on Florida's Space Coast. Currently, he serves as a Consultant to the Kennedy Space Center and has also worked as a consultant in business and industry and various government agencies. Author of C Development Tools for the IBM PC (Brady, 1985), Stevens began programming in 1985 and has been designing systems and programs in C for the past 15 years. When he isn't programming or writing about computers, as a contributing editor to Dr. Dobbs Journal, he plays jazz piano and writes music.