Yoshihiro Akiyama is Professor, the graduate school of Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT).
He is also SEI authorized Instructor for PSP/TSP and CMMI, a TSP coach, and a SCAMPI High
Maturity Lead Appraiser. Before he retired from IBM Japan in October 2006, he was a program
manager or Senior Technical Staff Member, promoting process-based project management for IBM
Asia Pacific global services organizations since 1998. During 1983 through 1997, he was dedicated
to do research on software engineering at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Systems Laboratory, and
Kanazawa Institute of Technology. During 1980 to 1986, he had chances to work at IBM system
software development laboratories in California and New York. He joined IBM Japan 1974 after
receiving Ph.D. in particle Physics March 1974. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, PMI, IPSJ, and SPM
Dines Bjørner was born in Odense, Denmark, 4 October 1937. He graduated in January 1962 with
an MSc in Electronics Engineering and with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in January 1969 from the
Technical University of Denmark. He joined IBM in 1962, and worked for the company until taking
up his chair at the Technical University of Denmark in 1976.
He was lecturing at University of California, Copenhagen University, the Technical University
of Denmark, the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, National University of Singapore, Japan
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Université Henri Poincaré, INRIA/LORIA, Techn.
Univ. of Graz, University of Saarland, the University of Edinburgh, Tokyo University, Technical
University of Vienna.
Together with his colleagues he instigated the Dansk Datamatik Center. In 1982-1984 he was chairman
of a Danish Government (Ministry of Education) Commission on Informatics. He was the founding and
first UN Director of UNU-IIST, the United Nations University's International Institute for Software
Technology, located in Macau. He was a co-founder of VDM-Europe in 1987, FME: Formal Methods Europe
in 1991. He co-chaired two of the VDM Symposia, and the International Conference on Software
Engineering. He was chairman of the IFIP World Congress, and was the instigator and General Chairman
of the first World Congress on Formal Methods. He was chairman of Academia Europaea's Informatics
Section. He has otherwise been involved in about 60 other scientific conferences.
He is a Knight of The Danish Flag; is a member of Academia Europaea; is a member of The Russian
Academy of Natural Sciences, and of IFIP Working Groups. He has received the John von Neumann
Medal of the JvN Society of Hungary and the Ths. Masaryk Gold Medal from the Masaryk University,
Brno, The Czech Republic. He received the Danish Engineering Society's Informatics Division's
first BIT prize, March 1999. He was given the degree of honorary doctor from the Masaryk University
in 2004. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
He has published more than a hundred papers, authored 4 books (3 in both English and Chinese,
and 1 in two English editions), co-authored 2 books and edited & co-edited 11 books.
Dr. Victor R. Basili is Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Maryland, College Park and Executive Director of the Fraunhofer
Center - Maryland. He was and one of the founders and principals in the
Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at NASA/GSFC. He works on
measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process
and product.
He worked on the development of mechanisms for observing
and evolving knowledge through empirical research, e.g., the
Goal/Question /Metric Approach, The Quality Improvement Paradigm, the
Experience Factory. He is a recipient many awards including a 1989 NASA
Group Achievement Award, a 1990 NASA/GSFC Productivity Improvement and
Quality Enhancement Award, the 1997 Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Mathematics and Computer Science by the Washington Academy of Sciences,
the 2000 Outstanding Research Award from ACM SIGSOFT and the 2003 Harlan
Mills Award for the IEEE Computer Society.
Dr. Basili has authored over
200 papers, has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TSE, and as 1982
Program Chair and 1993 General Chair of ICSE, respectively. He is
co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Empirical Software
Engineering. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the University of Texas in 1970.
Dr. Paul Clements is a senior member of the technical staff at
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute,
where he has worked for 8 years leading or co-leading projects
in software product line engineering and software architcture
documentation and analysis.
Clements is the co-author of three practitioner-oriented books
about software architecture: "Software Architecture in Practice"
(1998, second edition due in late 2002), "Evaluating Software
Architectures: Methods and Case Studies" (2001), and "Documenting
Software Architectures: View and Beyond" (2002). He also co-wrote
"Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns" (2001), and was
co-author and editor of "Constructing Superior Software" (1999).
In addition to these five books, Clements has also authored dozens of
papers in software engineering reflecting his long-standing interest
in the design and specification of challenging software systems. He
received a B.S. in mathematical sciences in 1977, and a M.S. in
computer science in 1980, both from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He received a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1994.
Tom DeMarco is a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, a systems think tank with offices in
the U.S., Germany and Great Britain. He is a past winner of the Jean-Dominique Warnier Prize for
"lifetime contribution to the information sciences." He is a founder and past-president of the
Pop!Tech Conference.
Mr. DeMarco is the author of nine books on management, organizational design, and systems
development. The most recent is called Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects,
written with co-author Tim Lister. (If you think waltzing with a bear is risky, try managing a
software project.) Before that there was Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of
Total Efficiency, published by Random House, Broadway Books Division, in 2002. It addresses the
question, Why are we all so damned busy? and offers some unsettling answers.
In 1997, he wrote The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management [Dorset House Press], the story
of a veteran software manager who finds he has bet his life on a project deadline. The book is
about managing as though your life were on the line. Mr. DeMarco's earlier works include Why
Does Software Cost So Much? (And Other Puzzles of the Information Age) [Dorset House, 1995], the
classic, PEOPLEWARE: Productive Projects and Teams (with co-author Tim Lister) now in a second
edition [Dorset, 1999], Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation,
[Prentice Hall, 1982], Structured Analysis and System Specification [Prentice-Hall, 1979], and
more than one hundred articles and papers about management and the system development process.
Mr. DeMarco's career began at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he served as part of the
now-legendary ESS-1 project. In later years, he managed real-time projects for La CEGOS
Informatique in France, and was responsible for distributed on-line banking systems installed
in Sweden, Holland, France and Finland. He has lectured and consulted throughout the Americas,
Europe, Africa, Australia and the Far East.
Mr. DeMarco has a BSEE degree from Cornell University, an M.S. from Columbia University, a
diploma from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne, plus an honorary Doctor of Science from
City University London (2003). In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the winner of
the 1999 Stevens Award for his contribution to software engineering methods. His first work of
mainstream fiction, a comic novel called Dark Harbor House, was published by Down East Books in
the Spring of 2001. His short story collection, Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie was
published in 2003. He makes his home in Camden, Maine.
Richard A. DeMillo is the Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. He is also Director of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center.
He returned to academia in 2002, after a career as an executive in industry and government.
He was Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard, where he had worldwide responsibility
for technology and technology strategy. Prior to joining HP, he was in charge of Information
and Computer Sciences Research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown,
New Jersey, where he oversaw the development of many Internet and web-based innovations. He
has also directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science
Foundation.
Before joining industry during the height of the Internet boom, he was Professor of Computer
Sciences and Director of the Software Engineering Research Center at Purdue University. He
also held major faculty positions at Georgia Tech where he was the founding Director of the
Software Research Center and a visiting professorship at the University of Padua in Padua,
Italy.
The author of over 100 articles and books, Dr. DeMillo's research has spanned several
fundamental areas of computer science and includes fundamental innovation in computer
security, software engineering and mathematics. His present research interests are focused
on information security and nanotechnology. He is developing hardware-based architectures
for trusted computing platforms. He is also working on computing and communication
architectures for massively distributed nano-scale components.
He is active in many aspects of the IT industry, serving on advisory boards and panels and
he is a member of the Boards of Directors for several companies.
János Fehéregyházy was born in Budapest and has lived in Austria since 1956. After
graduating from the Technical University of Vienna in Telecommunications he
joined Siemens AG Austriain 1977, where he worked in the Program and System
Engineering (PSE) department, mainly on the development of software for Siemens
digital switching systems. In 1999 he became head of a business unit leading projects
related to Intelligent Network Systems. In 2001 he became CEO of Siemens PSE Ltd. in
Hungary, a subsidiary of PSE in Austria. Siemens PSE Ltd. is the largest software
development company in Hungary, employing more then 700 software and systems engineers.
Since April 2005 János has been responsible for the regional strategy of the entire PSE
Group, including development sites in 6 Central and Eastern Europe countries,
Turkey and China.
Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is one of 55 active IBM Fellows, IBM's highest technical position,
in IBM's engineering community of 200,000 technical professionals. There have been
approximately 200 Fellows in IBM's history.
Don is the Chief Architect and technical lead for IBM's Software Group (SWG) family of
products, and chairs the SWG Architecture Board. This board includes the chief architects
for DB2, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere products.
Don's most recent efforts have focused on
Web services implementation in IBM products, and the definition of standards
Simplified application development and tools, and support for patterns, templates and recipes
SWG product support for information integration, content management, application integration and event management
Scalability and high availability
Business process management
Grid services
Client, mobile and embedded platforms
Componentization and integration of the SWG product family
Portal and Web service based approaches to systems and application management
Anton (Tony) Fricko has worked with IBM since 1971 in several international roles in Europe,
joining the UK Hursley Laboratories in 1999. His current role is Program Manager for jStart
Emerging Technologies, where he assists customers all over Europe in the adoption of new
technologies, focusing on Web Services, SOA and Autonomic Computing as well as OSS, Ajax
and Web 2.0 technologies. Since 2004 Tony performs this function from his home town Vienna,
Austria.
Between 1975 and 1987 he was working at the BBC Brown Boveri AG, Baden as Programmer,
Project Leader, Quality Manager, Manager. His application area was: Power system control.
Since 1987 he has been working at INFOGEM AG, Informatiker Gemeinschaft für Unternehmensberatung
in Baden. He is a Co-founder, President, Senior Consultant. His field of activities are
Consultancy and education in software engineering, especially project
and quality management.
He was General Chairman of the Fourth European Conference on Software
Quality, Basel, 1994; Programme Committee member of a number of European
and World Conferences on Software Quality; Member of the Editorial Review
Board of the ASQ journal Software Quality Professional; Co-author of two
books and author of more than 50 contributions to conferences and journals.
He is Founder of the BridgeGuard Art & Science Residence Centre in túrovo (Slovakia).
Yuri Gurevich is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University
of Michigan, ACM Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and Dr. Honoris Causa of Hasselt University in Belgium and
of Ural State University in Russia.
Stephen Hailes is a senior lecturer in the department of Computer Science, University
College London. He holds both undergraduate and PhD degrees from Cambridge University,
the latter in the field of distributed object-based systems. Since leaving Cambridge,
he has worked at UCL, primarily in the fields of networking and security; thus he was
the first to give public demonstrations of multimedia conferencing over packet based
networks in the UK, and the first to demonstrate interworking with circuit switched
systems. Latterly Stephen has focussed his efforts on mobile systems, and security. He
has been PI or CoI on a range of national and EC-funded projects, including the
successful EC-funded 6WINIT (mobile IPv6 systems for healthcare) project. He is
currently PI on the MARS project, examining the use of AI-techniques in producing
secure, robust, systems, and is CoI on the recently awarded Framework 6 Integrated
Project SEINIT, examining techniques for the construction of secure IPv6-based
ambient systems.
Emeritus Professor of Computing, Oxford University Computing Laboratory Senior Researcher with
Microsoft Research in Cambridge.
Tony Hoare's interest in computing was awakened in the early fifties, when he studied philosophy
(together with Latin and Greek) at Oxford University, under the tutelage of John Lucas. In 1959,
as a graduate student at Moscow State University, he studied the machine translation of languages
(together with probability theory, in the school of Kolmogorov). To assist in efficient look-up
of words in a dictionary, he discovered the well-known sorting algorithm Quicksort.
On return to England in 1960, he worked as a programmer for Elliott Brothers, a small scientific
computer manufacturer. He led a team (including his later wife Jill) in the design and delivery
of the first commercial compiler for the programming language Algol 60.
In 1977 he moved to Oxford University, and undertook to build up the Programming Research Group,
founded by Christopher Strachey. The research of his teams at Oxford pursued an ideal that takes
provable correctness as the driving force for the accurate specification, design and development
of computing systems, both critical and non-critical. Well-known results of the research include
the Z specification language, and the CSP concurrent programming model.
Throughout more than thirty years as an academic, Tony has maintained strong contacts with
industry, through consultancy, teaching, and collaborative research projects. He took a
particular interest in the sustenance of legacy code, where assertions are now playing a vital
role, not for his original purpose of program proof, but rather in instrumentation of code for
testing purposes. On reaching retirement age at Oxford, he welcomed an opportunity to go back to
industry as a senior researcher with Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He hopes to expand the
opportunities for industrial application of good academic research, and to encourage academic
researchers to continue the pursuit of deep and interesting questions in areas of long-term
interest to the software industry and its customers.
Watts S. Humphrey founded the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of the Institute and is a research scientist on its staff.
From 1959 to 1986, he was associated with IBM Corporation, where he was director of programming and
VP of Technical Development. His publications include many technical papers and eleven books. Some of
his recent books are), Managing Technical People (1996), Winning With Software: An Executive Strategy
(2001), PSP: A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers (2005), TSP: Leading a Development Team
(2006), and TSP, Coaching Development Teams (2006). He holds five US. Patents. In 1991 he served on the
Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. He holds a bachelor's degree in
physics from the University of Chicago, a master's degree in physics from the Illinois Institute of
Technology, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.
Mr. Humphrey was awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree in software engineering by Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University in 1998. In 2000, the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India was named
in his honor and the Boeing Corporation presented him with an award for innovation and leadership in
software process improvement. In 2005, at the White House, the President of the United States awarded
Mr. Humphrey the National Medal of Technology.
Henry W. (Hank) Jones, III is a software business consultant and lawyer with extensive open
source software (OSS) experience. He is a 25-year veteran of the software and information
technology industries. Hank has served on the senior management teams of 3 publicly traded
U.S. technology vendors in blended legal, business development, and technology leadership
roles. He consults to software and other technology vendors and users re. OSS strategy,
benefits, risks, product management, adaptation, licensing, intellectual property, and
training. Hank also handles traditional (i.e., non-OSS) software development, distribution,
sales/licensing, risk management, dispute, and other projects. Hank presently maintains
technology law and consulting practices, based in Austin, Texas, U.S. (but working globally),
working as memphishank@aol.com.
Hank has chaired and spoken OSS events and panels since 1999, including at the OSBC
conference in San Francisco and the Austin Software Council. He initiated and co-chaired
the 12/11/03 SDForum "Open Source Summit" in Burlingame, California (Silicon Valley). At
the University of Texas, he has served as adjunct lecturer in software engineering
continuing education programs.
Magnus Karlson is an Expert in Open Systems Software Architecture at Ericsson AB in Group Function
Technology, Common Technologies. His work is concentrated on standardization and strategies within
the platform area. Mr. Karlson has participated in several different standardization initiatives
and open source related activities in the last few years. He is currently chair of the SA Forum
Technical Work Group as well as a board member. Mr. Karlson is also chairman of the SCOPE Alliance
board. He holds a B.S. in system analysis from the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Allan Kennedy is the founder of Kennedy Carter Ltd. With his colleagues, he has been
a pioneer of executable modelling applied to embedded and real time system development.
Kennedy Carter's Executable UML modelling and simulation environment (iUML) was recently
selected by the US DoD's Single Integrated Air Picture Systems Engineering Task Force
(SIAP SE TF) as their platform independent UML modelling tool. The SIAP SE TF is building
an Executable UML model of a distributed system that supports joint tactical battle
management and command and control.
Kouichi Kishida is a Fellow of SRA (Software Research Associates, Inc), a Tokyo-based
independent software house, and now serving as the Technical Director of
SRA Key Technology Laboratory, the company's R&D Lab.
Kishida started his professional career in early 1960s first as a freelance programmer.
After worked for a few companies, he founded SRA with some of his friends in November 1967.
In early 1970s, his name became famous in Japan as the inventor of unique structured program
design technique and also as the author of the first book on systems programming in Japanese.
Summer 1980, SRA introduced BSD Unix on VAX780 as the basis of software development environment
of the company. It was the starting point of Unix revolution in Japan. Kishida was nominated as
the leader of the 1st Unix-based national software environment project called "SMEF" (1981-85).
Then he had a big political trouble against the government about the planning of the successor
project SIGMA (See "Interview with Kouichi Kishida", Unix Review Magazine, February 1987).
Kishida has been very active in voluntary activities in Japanese software community. He is a
founding member and serving as the Secretary General of Software Engineers Association since 1985,
and also supporting some other organizations like Japan Unix Society (JUS), Software Maintenance
Study Group (SMSG), Japan SPI Consortium (JASPIC), etc.
Internationally, Kishida has been involved in ICSE community from late 1970s. After serving as a
PC member, he took the Program Co-Chair position of 9th ICSE (Monterey, 1987) , gave a keynote
speech at 10th ICSE (Singapore, 1988). He was given ACM/SGSOFT Distinguished Service Award in 2001.
As the Secretary General of SEA Japan, he has been organizing a series of annual international
technical symposium in China since 1987 (China-Japan Symposium:1987-90, International CASE Symposiums:
1991-95, International Symposium on Future Software Technology: 1996-2004, International Workshop on
Future Software Technology: 2005- ). And now he is serving as the Chair of Far East Experience Track
of ICSE 2006 in Shanghai.
Hermann Kopetz received his PhD in physics "sub auspiciis praesidentis" from the University
of Vienna, Austria in 1968. He was a manager of a computer process control department at
Voest Alpine in Linz, Austria, before joining the Technical University of Berlin as a
professor for Computer Process Control in 1978. Since 1982 he is professor for Real-Time
Systems at the Technical University of Vienna. Dr. Kopetz's research interests focus at
the intersection of real-time systems, fault-tolerant systems, and distributed embedded
systems. He is the chief architect of the Time-Triggered Architecture which evolved over
the past twenty years of research.
As an engineer and businessman, he is the Founding Chairman of TTTech, with one of his
best students as the CEO. TTTech is the right example to show how original ideas can
lead to successful enterprises.
As to professional activities, from 1990 to 1992 he was chairman of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and was elected to the grade of a "Fellow of the
IEEE" in 1993. Dr. Kopetz was the Chairman of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing
and Fault-Tolerance from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he was elected to become a full member
of the Austrian Academy of Science. In July 2000 Dr. Kopetz was nominated by the Austrian
Government to become one of the eight scientists that advise the Government on Science Policy.
Frank Leymann is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology,
and a professor of computer science at University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is the chief
architect of IBM's flow technology, and a member of the WebSphere Platform Architecture
Board that sets the overall technical direction of IBM's middleware. In addition, he is
very active in Web Service standardization, architecture, technology and productization.
In the past, Frank worked on database systems, database tools, and transaction processing.
He published many papers in various journals and conference proceedings, filed a multitude
of patents, and is the co-author of textbooks on repositories and on workflow systems. He
served as a member of program committees and organization committees for many international
conferences, and is co-editor of the journal of the DBMS SIG of the German computer society (GI).
Prof. Bertrand Meyer is Professor of Software Engineering at ETH, founder of Eiffel
Software, and the author of several books on software topics including
"Object-Oriented Software Construction", "Eiffel: The Language", "Object Success"
and "Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages".
Wolfgang Paul got his doctoral degree in computer science at Saarland University
and he was a post doc at Cornell University. He worked as an associate professor
of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld and as a research staff member at
the IBM Almaden research lab. In 1986 he became a full professor at the computer
science department of Saarland University. In Saarbrücken he served as head of
the computing center of the university, as department chairman and as Dean of
Engineering. Wolfgang Paul worked in the areas of Complexity Theory, Scientific
Computing, Computer Architecture and Formal Verification. For his scientific
work he received an IBM invention achievement award, the prestigeous Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the Pacific National
University in Russia. Since 2006 he is a member of Academia Europaea. Presently
Wolfgang Paul is the scientific director of the Verisoft project which is funded
by the German Federal Government.