Cockburn, Alistair - Dr. Cockburn (pronounced Co-burn, the Scottish way), is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for describing Software development as a Cooperative Game, for helping craft the Agile Development Manifesto, for finally defining Use Cases and for developing the initial response technique relaxation/massage form.
Hughes, Gorden - Director of the Safety Systems Research Centre, University of Bristol, UK. +44 117 9545157 (Phone), e-mail, hughes@cs.bris.ac.uk. Research interests include: Software Safety, Design Methodology, Software Testing, Software Reliability, and Process Improvement. Publications include:
Development of a Research Programme on Software Diversity. Final deliverable for Scottish Nuclear, ref: PP/79405/MB, 1995.
Reliability Estimation from Appropriate Testing of Plant Protection Software. IEEE Software Engineering Journal, pages 206-208, Nov 1995.
Reliability Estimation from Appropriate Testing of Plant Protection Software, Publications IEEE Software Engineering Journal Nov. 1995, Nov. 1995
Leveson, Nancy - Professor Leveson started a new area of research, software safety, which is concerned with the problems of building software for real-time systems where failures can result in loss of life or property.