Keynote Speakers
All keynote addresses will take place in the Colonial room.
Global Software Project for a Globalized World
The teaching of software engineering cannot ignore
the distributed, globalized nature of most of today's
software development. ETH Zurich may have been the first
institution to teach a course on "Software Engineering for
Outsourced and Offshore Development" (offered by Peter
Kolb and me since 2004). It has evolved into a course
on Distributed Software Engineering and, in its recent
incarnations, includes a distributed software project
where students collaborate across several universities on
several continents, reflecting the distributed setup of a
large contemporary industrial project. The collaboration
occurs solely across the Internet; it takes advantage
of -- and occasionally fights with -- the most recent
communication and collaboration technologies, from Wikis
to shared documents and Voice Over IP.
The talk discusses some of the challenges of teaching
distributed software engineering, the methods that we
propose, and our first experience of a distributed course
with a distributed software project.
About the Speaker
Bertrand Meyer is Professor of Software Engineering at ETH
Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), which
he joined in 2001 and was chairman of the computer science
department from 2004 to 2006. He remains Chief Architect
of Eiffel Software, the company he founded in California
in 1985. He is the author of a number of books translated
into many languages, including "Object-Oriented Software
Construction" (Jolt Award 1997), "Reusable Software",
"Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages",
"Eiffel: The Language" and several others, as well as many
articles and over 60 edited conference proceedings. He
has led the design and implementation of numerous tools
and libraries used in production applications, including
the open-source EiffelStudio environment, and serves as
consultant to industry and government agencies. He is the
principal designer of the Eiffel language and method, and
the editor of the Eiffel language standard, accepted by the
International Standards Organization in 2006. His research
interests range over object-oriented analysis, design and
programming, concurrency (SCOOP model), object persistence,
development environments, software project management,
software verification, automatic testing, formal methods,
programming language semantics, and educational issues. He
is the recipient of the Dahl-Nygaard object technology
award and, in 2007, of the ACM Software System Award.
Speaker website
Michael Tiemann
Exonovation: Leveraging The Innovation of Others
The S&P 500 isn't what it used to be: in 1930,
companies on that list could expect to remain there for
75 years; today the average tenure is 15 years. In 1950,
profits earned by the S&P 500 companies was 18% of US GDP;
in 2000 it was only 6%. The very concept of innovation
as a competitive advantage is increasingly contradicted
by financial and economic metrics, not to mention a wide
range customer surveys. A operational strategy identified
by John Seely Brown and John Hagel in 2005 argues that the
only sustainable edge is to leverage innovation /from/
the edge, a model that Red Hat has been successfully
practicing since day one. This talk will explain how Red
Hat operationalizes the strategy presented by Hagel and
Brown, how Red Hat's outstanding financial performance
is predicted by this model, and how Red Hat's basic
product--IT Value--is essential to restoring the S&P 500
to economic and competitive sustainability.
About the Speaker
Michael Tiemann is the co-founder of Cygnus Support, the
first company to provide commercial support for open source
software, and wrote the original GNU C++ compiler. Cygnus
was also one of the first companies to commercially support
Kerberos, a network authentication and security library
designed to work in untrusted environments. Michael became
an executive at Red Hat when Red Hat acquired Cygnus in
January 2000. As Vice President of Open Source Affairs,
Michael advises leaders in the private and public sectors
about Open Source strategy and technology. Michael serves
on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative
and the GNOME Foundation, and provides financial support
for the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
Software Engineering Education: How Far We've Come and How Far We Have To Go
In this talk we'll trace the history of software
engineering education and focus on some of the key players.
Although the time has gone by quickly, it is more than
20 years since the first CSEE was held, and there have
been many changes in that time period. We'll highlight
the work that we have accomplished in the areas of degree
programs and curricula, conferences and working groups,
professionalism, certification, and industry-university
collaboration.
We'll also look at the challenges that lie ahead -- the
global reach of education, new delivery mechanisms, new
professional efforts, and the need for us to engage in
leadership in software engineering education. What new
approaches should we be considering? How can we maintain
our vitality? How can we best nurture new educators and
encourage others to join our profession?
About the Speaker
Nancy R. Mead is a senior member of the technical staff
in the Survivable Systems Engineering Group, which is part
of the CERT Program at the Software Engineering Institute
(SEI).
Mead is also a faculty member in the Master of Software
Engineering and Master of Information Systems Management
programs at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently
involved in the study of secure systems engineering and the
development of professional infrastructure for software
engineers. She also served as director of education for
the SEI from 1991 to 1994. Her research interests are in
the areas of information security, software requirements
engineering, and software architectures.
Prior to joining the SEI, Mead was a senior technical staff
member at IBM Federal Systems, where she spent most of her
career in the development and management of large real-time
systems. She also worked in IBM's software engineering
technology area and managed IBM Federal Systems' software
engineering education department. She has developed and
taught numerous courses on software engineering topics,
both at universities and in professional education
courses.
Mead has more than 100 publications and invited
presentations, and has a biographical citation in Who’s
Who in America. She is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and the
IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the ACM. Mead serves
on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Security and Privacy and
the Requirements Engineering Journal, and is a member of
numerous advisory boards and committees.
Speaker website
Special Speakers
These sessions will take place in the Gold room.Cyber Security and Software Assurance: Enhancing the Relevance of Education and Training
In this presentation, Joe Jarzombek addresses the relevance of software security assurance in reducing organizational risk exposure. He provides an overview of software assurance initiatives within the federal government, and addresses requisite focuses for relevant education and training.
With today's global IT/software supply chain, software engineering, project management and quality assurance must explicitly address security risks posed by exploitable software. Traditional software-related processes and practices normally do not explicitly address software security risks that can be passed from projects to the organization. Software Assurance processes and practices span development and acquisition. Free resources are now available to assist organizations and individuals in managing software lifecycle activities. Moreover, significant public-private collaborative efforts are evolving the software assurance ecosystem and providing more comprehensive diagnostic capabilities to assist throughout the software lifecycle. Build Security In is one of the projects that develop and collect software assurance and software security information that helps to create secure systems.
About the speaker.
Joe Jarzombek is the Director for Software Assurance in the National
Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS). He leads government interagency efforts with industry, academia,
and standards organizations to shift the security paradigm away from
patch management by addressing security needs in work force education
and training, more comprehensive diagnostic capabilities, and
security-enhanced development and acquisition practices. (see
https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov and http://www.us-cert/swa) After
retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Col. in program management,
Joe Jarzombek worked in the cyber security industry as vice president
for product and process engineering. He served in two software-related
positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense prior to
accepting his current DHS position. Throughout his career he has
actively lead process improvement initiatives, including serving on the
CMMI Product Development Team and later on the CMMI Steering Group. He
has continued to co-lead efforts to integrate safety and security into
integrated Capability Maturity Models (CMMs).