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).
Blackburn, Mark - Mark R. Blackburn has twenty years of software systems engineering experience in development, project leadership and applied research in specification-based testing, object technology, requirement and design specification, formal methods, and formal verification. He is also the President of T-VEC Technologies, Inc. and co-inventor of the T-VEC system an advanced specification and verification environment.
blackburn@t-vec.com
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.
Fowler, Martin - Martin is the Chief Scientist for Thoughtworks, an application development and consulting company. He's been involved for over a decade in using object-oriented techniques for information systems. Although his primary interest has been in software design he's never been able to avoid software process and has been interested in approaches that allow methodology to fit people rather than the other way around. He's the author of Analysis Patterns, UML Distilled, Refactoring, and Planning Extreme Programming.
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
Ott, Linda - Chair and Associate Professor Department of
Computer Science, Michigan Technological
University. The focus of the research on software
measurement has been on identifying and measuring
non-trivial characteristics related to software quality.
Much of this work has focused on measuring cohesion
in the procedural paradigm. Recently she has shifted
her focus to include the object-oriented paradigm.
Roberts, Graham - Graham Roberts is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He currently teaches courses on Java, C++ and object-oriented software engineering. He is also the Co-author of Developing Java, a textbook written with Russel Winder (KCL). Research interests includes all aspects of object-oriented systems Of special interest are Patterns and Software Architecture, Java and Java Based Development, C++, OOA/OOD, Parallel OO languages - especially UC++, (parallel C++), OO Type Systems. G.Roberts@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Simons, Anthony J.H. - His early research in the Speech and Hearing Research Group focussed on object-oriented models of speech events and low-level phonetic decoding. This involved signal- and image-processing, plus a certain amount of AI. Increasingly fascinated by object-oriented languages themselves, from 1990 he turned to language design, type theory, compilation strategies and software development methods; and joined the Verification and Testing Research Group. He is the designer of Brunel, an object-oriented language supported by a theory of classification, and is the chief architect behind the Discovery object-oriented development method. He served on the OOPSLA '95 Programme Committee and is a regional editor for the journal Object-Oriented Systems. He is an active member of the OPEN (Object-oriented Process, Environment and Notation) consortium, whose goal is the establishment of a flexible international standard for object-oriented development. A.Simons@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Wolf, Alexander L. - Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (UK), where he serves as Head of the Distributed Software Engineering Research Section. He also holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (US), and the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano (CH).
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
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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