Basili, Victor - A professor at the University of Maryland, Dr. Basili is a noted advocate and practitioner of quantitative methods in software engineering. He was a co-founder of NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory and has won numerous awards. His Web page provides pointers to the journals and organizations with which he is associated, as well as papers and other descriptions of his research interests.
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).
Gries, David - Dr. Gries is a professor of Engineering at Cornell
University. His interests are in programming methodology,
in particular the formal development of programs, and
in related areas such as programming languages,
programming language semantics, and logic. He is an
award winning educator in the use of logic for
computer science.
gries@cs.cornell.edu
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).
Programming Language and Compiler Research Groups - This collection of resources focuses on university-based programming language and compiler research groups. In addition, references to multi-site working groups and projects are provided.
Urban, Joseph E. - Professor Urban's research interests include Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE), prototyping software systems, executable specification languages, computer languages, data engineering, and distributed computing.
urban@asu.edu
Yourden, Ed - Mr. Yourdon is the author of over 525 technical articles. He has also authored or coauthored 26 computer books since 1967. His latest book is Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects (2001). Among his recent books are Death March (1997), Case Studies in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (1996), Mainstream Objects (1995), and Object-Oriented Systems Development: An Integrated Approach (1994), as well as two earlier OO books co-authored with Peter Coad. ed1@yourdon.com
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