Harold W. “Bud” Lawson has been active in the field of fields of computing since 1958 and systems engineering since 1974 with broad international experience in industrial and academic environments. Experienced in many facets of computing and computer-based systems, including systems and software engineering, computer architecture, real-time, programming languages and compilers, operating systems, life-cycle process standards, various application domains as well as computer related education and training.

Received the Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and the PhD degree from the Royal Technical University, Stockholm. Contributed to several pioneering efforts in hardware and software technologies at Univac, IBM, Standard Computer Corporation, and Datasaab. Permanent and visiting professorial appointments at several universities including Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, University of California, Irvine, Universidad Politecnica de Barcelona, Linköpings University, Royal Technical University, University of Malaya and Keio University. Currently, Honorary Professor in the Swedish Graduate School of Computer Science and Academic Fellow at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Fellow of the IEEE, ACM Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE European Distinguished Visitor, Member of the ACM Fellows Committee (1997-2001), Member of INCOSE, Founding member of SIGMICRO, EUROMICRO, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, the Swedish National Association for Real-Time (SNART), the Swedish chapter of ENCRESS and INCOSE Sweden. Chairman (1999-2000) Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Head of the Swedish Delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG7 and elected architect of the ISO/IEC 15288 standard. In 2000, he received the IEEE Computer Pioneer award for his 1964-65 invention of the pointer variable concept for programming languages.