Baxter, Ira D. - Dr. Baxter has been involved with computing since 1966, and implemented one of the first minicomputer timesharing systems on a Data General Nova in 1970. He received his B.S. in Computer Science (1973), and worked for a number of years in industry both as a consultant and as owner of Software Dynamics, a systems software house, where he designed compilers, time-sharing and network operating systems. In 1990, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, where he studied Software Engineering, focusing on design reuse using transformational methods. Dr. Baxter spent several years with Schlumberger, working on a PDE-solver generator for CM-2 supercomputers (Sinapse). He consulted for Rockwell International on industrial automation software engineering tools for several years.
In 1995, he founded Semantic Designs, to build commercial tools that will radically enhance the method and economics of software maintenance. Through Semantic Designs, he provides consulting to Fortune 100 companies on domain-specific software transformation and synthesis methods. Dr. Baxter is the principal architect of Semantic Designs' Design Maintenance System (DMS), the principal designer and compiler implementer of PARLANSE, Semantic Designs' parallel programming language. In addition to his corporate duties, Dr. Baxter has served as chair and program committee member for numerous computer-science conferences, especially those focused on software engineering and reusability. Interests include: Software Engineering, emphasizing program synthesis, transformation, reverse engineering and maintenance. Operating systems, compilers (especially for parallel languages), and computer architectures.
Beedle, Mike - Mike is the founder and CEO of e-Architects Inc., a consulting company that specializes in application development using distributed objects and Internet technologies. He consults where he applies Scrum and XP together through XBreed. Mike was an early adopter of the Scrum method, and has introduced Scrum to 7 organizations since the mid-90's. Mike's specialty is to coach companies in the creation of large scale reusable architectures involving many application teams. Mike has published in several areas including object technology, patterns, components, frameworks, software development, programming languages, reusability, workflow, BPR, and Physics. He has co-organized several workshops on objects, patterns, components, and software development through the last decade. He is co-author of Scrum, Agile Software Development with Ken Schwaber (Prentice Hall, fall 2001).
Gacek, Cristina - Cristina Gacek is a PhD candidate of the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California. She has received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (Rio de Janeiro-RJ-Brazil) in 1989, a MSc in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy-NY-USA) in 1992, and a MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles-CA-USA) in 1995. Between 1988 and 1991, she worked as a systems analyst for IBM Brazil. Her current research interests include software architecture theory, as well as its relation with reengineering and reuse-based software engineering. gacek@usc.edu
McGregor, John D. - McGregor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Clemson University. He has authored the following books; Object-oriented Software Development: Engineering Software for Reuse and A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software, both with David A. Sykes.
He has been a speaker at numerous object-oriented conferences such as Object World, C++ at Work, and Object Expo and has taught tutorials at OOPSLA '94-'97. johnmc@cs.clemson.edu
Ogden, William F. - Emeritus Faculty, Ohio State. William F. Ogden's research focused on the problem of providing a conceptually robust framework for software engineering. A major goal is increased productivity in software development and maintenance, and this in turn, depends on finding a suitable programming language mechanism to support the widespread reuse of software components. Available mechanisms such as the procedure mechanism in early languages, the class concept in Smalltalk, and the generic packages in Ada, for example, have proved inadequate to the task.
Poulin, Dr. Jeffrey S. - Dr. Poulin is a leading authority on software reuse metrics, ROI, and business case analysis.
Reifer, Donald J. - Mr. Reifer has over 30 years of progressive experience in both industry and government. Recently, Mr. Reifer managed the DoD Software Initiatives Office under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). As part of this assignment, he also served as the Director of the DoD Software Reuse Initiative and Chief of the Ada Joint Program Office. Mr. Reifer's areas of expertise include
software reuse, Ada, software testing, Cost estimation (COCOMO), and software acquisition.
Weide, Bruce - Professor and Associate Chair, Ohio State
Directs the Reusable Software Research Group (RSRG), a part of the Software Engineering Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, chartered to explore all aspects of component-based software engineering. Their approach involves integrating several related subareas: formal specification of functionality and performance, modular verification of correctness and efficiency of implementations, design of programming languages and systems, and adaptation of the Resolve technology to practice (originally in Ada, more recently in C++ and, to a limited extent, Java).
Zweben, Stuart - Dr. Stuart H. Zweben joined the Ohio State Computer & Information Science Department (now named the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) in 1974 and became its chairperson twenty years later in October 1994. He received his Masters (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from Purdue University in 1974 after having received his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from City College of New York. He is a Fellow and former president of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and former president of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB). Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and on the editorial board of the Empirical Software Engineering Journal.
Stu has been an award winning chair. The Columbus Technology Council named him Top Contributor to the Advancement of Technology (Outstanding Educator Advancing Technology) in 2002. He previously had received the Columbus Technical Council’s Technical Person of the Year Award (2000). He also received an Outstanding Service Award from the ACM in 1997.
His research interests are in software engineering and computer science education. He is co-director of the Reusable Software Research Group along with Bruce Weide and Tim Long. His special interests are in the testing of object-based software, and in doing empirical studies to assess the effectiveness of various software engineering principles and practices.
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