Keynote Speakers

David Carr Senior Technology Analyst, Baseline Magazine.	David writes in-depth case studies for Baseline Magazine, a Ziff Davis Media publication focused on practical lessons about effective technology implementation. Cover stories he wrote or co-wrote focused on supply chain management (or the lack of it) at Kmart, the contribution of IT to the turn-around at Aetna, driving down costs at Roadway Express, and revisiting the e-business success claims of Herman Miller. He has also written about government projects, including a cover story on air traffic control modernization at the Federal Aviation Administration and articles on electronic voting glitches in Florida and systems to improve tracking of child welfare cases. David was previously Senior Technology Editor at Internet World magazine. He works from a home office in Coral Springs, Florida.
Tricia Oberndorf Director, Dynamic Systems Program, SEI.	Since coming to the SEI she has spent much of her time co-developing and teaching a course on open systems for program management offices and their support personnel. She was also involved in the development of an executive-level open systems course. She originally joined the SEI to work on the investigation of a number of integration and open systems questions, in the context of both computer-aided software engineering environments and other kinds of systems. Prior to working at the SEI, Tricia spent almost 20 years with the United States Navy, where she worked with software engineering environments and interfaces and served as co-chair of the Operating Systems Standards Working Group (OSSWG), a working group of the Navy's Next Generation Computer Resources (NGCR) Program. Her last Navy assignment was as civilian co-chair of the NGCR Project Support Environment Standards Working Group (PSESWG). Tricia has addressed CBS problems and solutions since her pioneering role on integrated software environments.
Douglas Schmidt Vanderbilt University.	Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt is a Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on patterns, optimization techniques, and empirical analyses of object-oriented frameworks that facilitate the development of high-performance, real-time distributed object computing middleware on parallel platforms running over high-speed networks and embedded system interconnects. In addition to his academic research, Dr. Schmidt has over a fifteen years of experience developing object-oriented middleware, in particular ACE and TAO, which are widely-used open-source middleware frameworks that implement patterns for high-performance and real-time systems. Dr. Schmidt also serves as a program manager in the DARPA Information Explotation Office (IXO), where he leads the national effort on distributed object computing middleware research. Doug's research has spawned many COTS products. As a research program manager, he faced many CBS problems.