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Keynotes
Dr. Ivar Jacobson
Vice President Process Strategy
Rational Software Corporation
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is one of the leading software development
methodologists in the world. Along with Rational colleagues
Grady Booch and Jim Rumbaugh, Jacobson developed the Unified
Modeling Language (UML), the industry-standard language for
specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts
of software systems. As vice president of e-development at Rational,
he is responsible for helping Rational define corporate and
product strategies in the area of e-development. He also works
with Booch and Rumbaugh on refining and improving the UML process.
One of Jacobson's seminal professional contributions is the
architecture-centric approach to software development, which
was developed at Ericsson beginning in 1967. This approach,
based on subsystems interacting in collaborations, was adopted
by the telecommunication standard SDL. Another contribution
is his work on the process of use case driven development, an
early example of component-based development, which led him
to found Objectory AB in Sweden in 1987. In the early 1990s,
Objectory expanded to address business engineering, improving
its ability to understand business contexts and capture requirements.
After Objectory merged with Rational in 1995, Jacobson's work
on use case driven development evolved into the Rational Unified
Process.
Jacobson is the principal author of three influential and best-selling
books: Object-Oriented Software Engineering—A Use Case
Driven Approach; The Object Advantage—Business Process
Reengineering with Object Technology; and Software Reuse—Architecture,
Process, and Organization for Business Success. His newest
book is The Unified Software Development Process. Jacobson
has written several widely referenced papers on object technology
and is a frequent lecturer on object technology around the world.
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Dr. Barry Boehm
TRW Professor of Software Engineering
Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software
Engineering
Dr. Barry Boehm served within the U.S. Department of Defense
as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) Information Science and Technology Office and as director
of the Software and Computer Technology Office for the Director
of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E). He worked at TRW,
culminating as chief scientist of the Defense Systems Group,
and at the Rand Corporation, culminating as head of the Information
Sciences Department.
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,
and two advanced software engineering environments: the TRW
Software Productivity System and the Quantum Leap Environment,
which were early-1980s challenges in COTS integration.
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Ralph Hempel
Independent consultant
Ralph Hempel (BASc.EE, P.Eng) is an independent consultant
in the field
of Embedded Systems. He provides systems design services, training,
and
programming to clients across North America.
His speciality is in deeply embedded microcontroller applications,
which
includes alarm systems, automotive controls, and the LEGO Mindstorms
system.
Ralph also provides training and mentoring for software development
teams that are new to embedded systems and need an in-depth
review of
the unique requirements of this type of programming.
Ralph holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University
of
Waterloo and is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
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Mike Moore
Deputy Manager, Science System Development Office, ESDIS Project
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
For the past 7 years, Mike Moore has been the technical lead
for NASA's
EOSDIS science data system. The system, which has been operational
at four sites since mid-1999, will eventually support 23 instruments
from 10 NASA missions. It integrates 50 high-end COTS products
with 1.1 million lines of custom code to support the archive,
processing and distribution of approximately 10 petabytes of
earth science data. In addition to overseeing system development,
Mr. Moore has worked with several groups from Carnegie Mellon
University's Software Engineering Institute and the CeBASE initiative
to introduce new tools and methods into NASA's engineering practices,
particularly for large COTS-intensive systems.
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