Juris Borzovs, RITI, Latvia

Mr. Juris Borzovs was born in 1950 in Finland. He graduated from the University of Latvia (UL), Riga, Latvia in 1973, received his candidate of science degree from the Institute of Mathematics, Belorussian Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus in 1989, Dr. and Dr. habil. degrees from the UL in 1992 and 1999, both in computer science. He was with the UL in 1973-1992. Now he is a Director with Riga Information Technology Institute (RITI) and half-time Docent with the UL and with Riga Technical University. Since 1992 he was the Head of Software Testing Lab within RITI dealing with testing for industrial software projects. Mr. Borzovs is a Member, Strategic Group, Coordinating Council, National Programme "Informatics"; Chairman, IT Terminology Subcommittee, Terminology Committee, Latvian Academy of Science; Vice Chairman, IT Standardization Technical Committee; Member, Legislation Drafting Task Forces, Ministries of Transport, Culture, Welfare; Invited Expert, Government Task Force on Millenium Problem; Member, Swedish-Latvian IT Council, The Baltic Sea IT Fund, Swedfund; President, Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunication Association (LITTA); Founder and First President, Latvia Chapter, Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA); Vice President, Latvia Chapter, International Federation for Automated Control (IFAC); Member, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Standards Association. He has published over 60 scientific papers. His interests include software quality, software testing, software engineering, software copyright, and terminology.Participated with presentation in ICSTEST conference in Bonn, April 5-7, 2000. Mr. Martins Gills received his MSc cum laude in Computer Science in 1999 from University of Latvia. For several years he has been working in the testing field. Currently he is a test team leader in Riga Information Technology Institute (RITI). One of the most challenging projects he managed was CANON printers software driver GUI testing comprised 18 natural languages and performed distantly. During last two years, he mostly participated in year 2000 testing projects. His main testing interests are related to test method efficiency. Participated with presentation in SQM and ICSTEST conferences in Bonn, April 5-7, 2000.