Boehm, Barry - Currently the TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software Engineering. His current research interests include software process modeling, software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics
and cost models, software engineering environments, and knowledge-based software engineering. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the
software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination.
Johnson, Philip - A Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii, Dr. Johnson is the Director of the Collaborative Software Development Laboratory (http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/). His research includes natural language processing, software development collaboration and programming language theory (java, ada).
Kaiser, Gail - Gail E. Kaiser is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Programming Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. She is best-known for the Marvel and Oz process-centered environments and for her work on extended transaction models. Her current research focuses on groupspaces (distributed hypermedia collaboration environments), alliances (smart federations of groupspaces and other collaboration frameworks), and groupviews (teamwork-oriented user interfaces based on multi-player game metaphors). kaiser@cs.columbia.edu
Whitehead, E. James - Chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) working group. ejw@ics.uci.edu
Wiegers, Karl - Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact in Portland, Oregon. He has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement. Prior to starting Process Impact in 1997, Karl spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company. His responsibilities there included experience as a photographic research scientist, software applications developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl has led process improvement activities in small application development groups, Kodak's Internet development group, and a division of 500 software engineers developing embedded and host-based digital imaging software products.
Karl is the author of the following books:
Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Microsoft Press, 2007)
More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice (Microsoft Press, 2006)
Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Dorset House Publishing, 1996)
Karl has also written more than 170 articles on many aspects of software, chemistry, and military history. He has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Software and as a Contributing Editor for Software Development magazine.
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