2nd INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK EUROPE (QWE'98) 9-13 November 1998, Brussels, Belgium INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

The 2nd International Software Quality Week Technical Program is reviewed by a distinguished International Board of Advisors listed below.

Advisory Members are chosen for their expertise in software testing and software quality issues and for their contributions to the software quality field. Quality Week seeks a balance between industrial, government, and academic backgrounds. In view of the international aspect of the conference has included members from many countries throughout the world.

All papers at QWE98 are reviewed by a majority of the Advisory Board's members. Paper selections are based on QWE98 Advisory Board technical content and presentation evaluation scores.

A brief biographical sketch of each Advisory Board member is also given. Email access or reference to each Advisory Board Member's home page (when available) is also given. Updated 27 July 1998.

Here are brief biographical descriptions of each QWE'98 Advisory Board member. Email access information and a hotlink to each members personal home page is included where known.

Dr. Boris Beizer, Software Engineer, Analysis USA

Dr. Boris Beizer received a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. He has written twelve books, ranging from system architecture to his well-known pair on software testing -- Software Testing Techniques and Software System Testing and Quality Assurance -- both considered standard references on the subject. His latest book is Black Box Testing, an introduction to testing technology. He directed testing for the FAA's Weather Message Switching Center and several other large communications systems. He has been a speaker at many testing conferences and is also known for his seminars on testing. He consults on software testing and quality assurance with many organizations throughout the world.
(bbeizer@acm.org)
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Mr. William Bently, Independent Consultant, USA

William Bently is a software developer and software testing researcher. As a practitioner, he has most recently worked for companies such as the Bayer Corporation and the Upjohn Company developing high reliability software for biomedical applications. As a researcher, he has written several papers on a novel theoretical approach to software testing: the theory of dynamic information flow testing (Cd testing). He is currently investigating the application of this theory to the testing of Java objects and components (JavaBeans). William has served on the Quality Week Board of Advisors since 1992. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and an M.S. in Biology from Ball State University.
(wbently@fourway.net)
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Dr. Antonia Bertolino, CNR-IEI, ITALY

Antonia Bertolino graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1985. Since 1986 she has been a researcher with the "Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione" of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa. Her research interests are in software engineering and dependability. Currently she is working at approaches for estimating and reducing the cost of debug testing techniques and at methods for the evaluation of software reliability. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software.
(bertolino@iei.pi.cnr.it)
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Mr. Robert Binder, RBSC, Inc., USA

Robert V. Binder has over 22 years of software development experience. He is President of RBSC Corporation, providing consulting and training in software engineering and software process improvement since 1984. He is author of "Application Debugging" (Prentice-Hall, 1985). "Testing Object-Oriented Systems" is under contract with Addison-Wesley. He writes a regular column on testing for Object magazine. His articles have appeared in American Programmer, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, CASE Outlook, CASE Trends, Database Programming and Design, IEEE Computer, Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, and Software Development. He is the of Chair a newly formed study group to develop an IEEE standard for built-in test for object-oriented software. Mr. Binder has an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the ACM, and holds the CDP and CCP.
(rbinder@rbsc.com)
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Dr. Juris Borzovs, University of Riga, Riga, LATVIA

Dr. Juris Borzovs Born in 1950 in Finland. Cand.comp.sci. from Inst. Math., Academy of Science of Belarus in 1989, Dr.sc.comp. from Univ. of Latvia in 1992. Currently Director of Riga Information Technology Institute and Head of its Software Testing Lab, Docent (CS and SE) with Univ. of Latvia and Riga Techn. Univ., Latvia. Over 100 technical papers in software testing and software engineering. Member IEEE, IFAC, ISACA, balloter for SE standards with Computer Society, IEEE, vice president of Latvian National IT Standardization TC, founder and president of Latvia chapter, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, vice president of Latvian IT Terminology Commission, member of Task Force for Latvian National Programme on IT.
(juris.borzovs@dati.lv)
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Ms. Rita Bral, SR/Institute, USA
    QWE'98 Conference Director

Rita Bral is Executive Director of SR/Institute, the sponsor of the Quality Week conferences, and VP/Promotion at Software Research, SR/Institute's parent company, a role she has fulfilled since 1990. At SR she has been responsible for SR's promotion effort, for technical seminars, publicity, and trade-show activities, and has had major impact on TestWorks documentation and collateral technical material. Ms. Bral holds an Agrege in Pedagogy, University of Ghent and Licentiaat in Roman Philology, University of Ghent, Belgium.

(bral@sr-corp.com)
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Mr. Bart Broekman, IQUIP, NETHERLANDS

Bart studied physics in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He started his career in IT at Philips Telecommunications & Data Systems, where he gained experience in programming, testing and quality assurance. Five years later he joined the software company IQUIP Informatica B.V. where he fulfilled assignments ranging from test consultancy to organising and managing large test projects. He aided in developing the structured test approach approach TMap, a de facto standard in the Benelux, and has implemented this in numerous organisations which have profited from his now more than 13 years testing experience.

At this moment he is a member of the R&D department of IQUIP Software Control Testen where he works closely together with Martin Pol. In this function he keeps track of current developments and trends in the testing world and develops matching test approaches, for instance on test automation and testing in RAD environments.

Bart is frequently giving courses in the Benelux on testing and he is regularly invited to make presentations on national and international seminars, including the last two EuroSTAR conferences, Unicom, FESMA, NOVI, EPIC, etcetera.
(broekman@iquip.nl)
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Mr. Adrian Burr, tMSc, ENGLAND

Adrian Burr started his computing career at the Welding Institute, Cambridge, UK, with responsibility for a team building the first microcomputer based instrumentation system for the welding industry. This included a heuristic forge welding monitor that learnt from the inputs the type of welding that was being monitored. Adrian then worked with GST and later Origin, a software house that provides systems for industry and commerce. He provided customer support and consultancy through the life of projects and it was during this time that he became aware of the need for better ways to monitor and manage the quality of software.

He started tMSc in 1991 with the aim of providing statistical and quality methods consultancy to industry and commerce and this has led to the establishment of a series of five courses on statistical methods for software development. He is the co-author of the book "Statistical Methods for Software Quality: Using Metrics for Process Improvement" published by ITCP in 1996 and the author of two reports on Quality Management Support Software including "Cutting Through the Paperwork - a Review of Quality Management Support Software".

Adrian is a long time member of the Specialist Interest Group on Software Testing and a member of the committee that has just completed the Software Component Testing Standard, one of the few standards that incorporates the principle of measurement of application.

tMSc runs seminars and publishes in magazines and technical journals for both manufacturing and software industries on quality related subjects. tMSc has assisted many companies in maintaining Ford Q1 status, implementing SPC and IT strategies in various industries, and developing quality systems. They have developed bespoke statistical systems and a product for capturing best practice and benchmarking the use of process improvement methods.

In addition, they carry out surveys for year 2000 conformance of software, computers and embedded systems. Solutions can be provided that resolve the PC clock and BIOS problems.
(aburr@www.globalnet.co.uk)
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Mr. Gunther Chrobok-Diening, Siemens, GERMANY

Gunther Chrobok-Diening is with Siemens in Munich, Germany. His current interests are testing distributed systems, component-based and object-oriented software. Gunther started his career in 1992 at DLR, the German Aerospace Center. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern and a degree in Meteorology from the University of Hannover.
(Gunther.Chrobok-Diening@t-online.de)
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Ms. Ann Combelles, Objectif, FRANCE

Ann Kuntzmann-Combelles is Executive Vice-President of Objectif Technologie, a company she set up in 1989 with the main strategical targets of assessing/mastering and improving software process. Annie Kuntzmann-Combelles is largely involved in software process assessment and improvement based on business goals. She is also reviewer for the European Union Information Technology programme and has been chairing the IEEE Advisory Board over 1994 and 1995 and she is Vice Chair of the COMPSAC 96 conference held in Seoul. Her main interest is SPI (she is actively participating to the ISO/SPICE project), measurement and object-oriented requirements and design. She has been giving dozen of seminars and training on SPI and quantitative software management based on the ami method. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aronautique et de l'Espace in 1973.
(akc@objectif.fr)
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Mr. Dirk Craeynest, OFFIS nv/sa & K.U.Leuven, BELGIUM

(Biographical Sketch To Be Supplied)

(Dirk.Craeynest@eurocontrol.be)
(dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
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Mr. Thomas Drake, CRTI

Mr. Drake is a software quality specialist and management and information technology consultant for Coastal Research & Technology, Inc. in the United States. He currently leads and manages a U.S. government agency-level Software Engineering Knowledge Based Center's software quality engineering initiative. As part of an industry and government outreach/partnership program, he holds frequent seminars and tutorials covering code analysis, software metrics, OO analysis for C++ and Java, coding practice, testing, best current practices in software development, the business case for software engineering, software quality engineering, project management, organizational dynamics and change management, and the people side of information technology.

Mr. Drake has personally measured and analyzed over 80,000,000 lines of Java, C++, C, Ada, Fortran, PL/I, and Assembly code plus others. Over the past several years, some very interesting patterns have emerged. The result of all the analysis is a highly correlated set of measures that have been developed into a streamlined set of code-level release criteria. This data is then combined with defect density information derived from dynamic testing data from each "phase" or milestone of the development life cycle as a feedback loop for making informed business decisions to improve the quality of the software over time via the process by which the development project is delivered.

Mr. Drake has spoken at several international conferences and frequently conducts interactive and facilitated educational and general interest seminars on the people, process and technology sides of software development and enterprise-level information management systems.

He considers himself a quality advocate and a digital archaeologist.

He supports the "weak-link" theory of software development and the use of software entropy principles as a risk identifier for generating higher quality software-based information technology systems.

He is also involved in Y2K contingency planning and related business enterprise and mission continuity support.

He is currently focused on the development and use of product-level and reflected process-level OO metrics for C++ and Java.

He is the principal author of a chapter on "Metrics Used for Object-Oriented Software Quality" for a CRC Press Object Technology Handbook published in December of 1998.

In addition, Mr. Drake is the author of a theme article entitled: "Measuring Software Quality: A Case Study" published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer.

Mr. Drake is listed with the International Who's Who for Information Technology for 1999.

Mr. Drake is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society. (tdrake1@umbc.edu)
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Mr. Franz Engelmann, Synlogic, SWITZERLAND

Franz Engelmann is with Synlogic AG, a consultancy company based in Binningen/Basel, Switzerland, where he is senior consultant for software process improvement, software engineering, and quality assurance. Since 1992 he has been an assessor in software process assessments. He worked for many years in the fields of software engineering and software process improvement as a consultant in various projects of the European Space Agency as well as for major European companies.

Franz Engelmann received his Master in Computer Science in 1982 at Karlsruhe University, Germany. Until 1987 he worked at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) in Karlruhe in the domain of programming languages and compiler construction. From 1988 to 1990 he headed the software engineering department of 1i Industrial Informatics in Freiburg, Germany. Until 1997 he was a consultant with Synspace in Binningen, a consultancy company co-founded by him.
(engelmann@synlogic.ch)
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Mr. John Favaro, INTECS Sistem, Pisa, ITALY

John Favaro is with Intecs Sistemi in Pisa, Italy, where he is Technical Coordinator of the European Space Software Development Environment Reference Facility Project, whose aim is the convergence of environments supporting the principal projects within the European Space Agency. After spending two years in Paris with CIT-Alcatel and INRIA working in the area of software engineering environments and telecommunications, he then worked from 1982 until 1990 at Industrial Informatics and Siemens AG in Germany in the fields of software engineering, robotics and telecommunications, where he was a member of the NATO industrial advisory group on standards. During this period he was a member of the Ada Environments Working Group of the Commission of European Communities. His principal current technical interest is the economics of information technology, particularly software reuse. He is European co-chair of the IEEE Technical Subcommittee on Reuse, and is European Chair for the Fifth International Conference on Software Reuse in May 1998. Mr. Favaro has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Yale University.
(favaro@pisa.intecs.it)
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Prof. Mario Fusani, CNR-IEI, ITALY

Mario Fusani joined the Italian Research Council (CNR) in 1973 as a researcher at IEI-CNR, Pisa, Italy. His current activity is concerned with quality systems, standards for software quality, and software applications certification.
(fusani@iei.pi.cnr.it)
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Prof. Marie-Claude Gaudel, LRI, FRANCE

Marie-Claude Gaudel is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Universite de Paris-Sud at Orsay. Her main research topics are formal specifications; algebraic data types; applications of formal specifications to prototyping, program proving, program testing, reusability, exception handling. Professor Gaudel is a member of several journal editorial boards (Science of Computer Programming, Genie Logiciel, Formal Aspects of Computing, Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability). She has been a member of the program committee of numerous international conferences (ICSE, TAPSoft, ESEC, FTCS, etc); she has chaired the programs of the 12th ICSE in 1990, TAPSOFT'93 and of the Formal Method Europe symposium in 1996.

She has been a consultant to several companies and several public agencies in France and in Europe. She is currently involved in several ESPRIT Basic Research Actions or Working Groups: DEVA, IS-CORE, COMPASS. She has got an outstanding paper award from the IEEE in 1984. Recently, she has been appointed as Doctor Honoris Causa of the EPFL (Lausanne).
(Marie-Claude.Gaudel@lri.fr)
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Dr. Guenter Koch, ARCS, AUSTRIA

• Bachelor in Electrical Engineering in 1972,
• Master in Computer Science in 1975 at Karlsruhe University,
• Assistant Professor at Karlsruhe University, Germany, until 1982,
• Managing Director of a range of different SW German houses from 1982 to 1993, as well as Managing Director of a Technology Center in South Germany (1994 - 1987),
• University Professor at University of Technology in Graz Austria from 1991 to 1993. During that period inventing the BOOTSTRAP sw =FCassessment methodology and heading the European development team,
• Founder Managing Director of the "European Software Institute" (ESI, Europe's counterpart to the SEI) in Bilbao, Spain from 1993 to 1997, there focusing on themes of software quality and latest sw design paradigms,
• Since 1997 Director at Swiss consultancy company SYNLOGIC AG and Chief Consultant at SUN Microsystem's International Enterprise Center in Geneva focusing on Java Enterprise Computing,
• More than 100 publications (books, articles) in SW Engineering & Management, Technology Management etc.
• Member of all major computer societies (IEEE CS, ACM, GI, VDI,...) since more than 15 years.
  (guenter.koch@arcs.ac.at)
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Dr. Peter Liggesmeyer, Siemens, GERMANY

Dr. Liggesmeyer is a Project Manager at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. His research interests include safety and reliability analysis techniques for technical systems and quality assurance of embedded software. Dr. Liggesmeyer received the diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paderborn in 1988. Prior to joining Siemens in 1993, he was a research assistant at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he completed his doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1992. He received the 1993 software engineering award of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik for his dissertation on software testing. Dr. Liggesmeyer is the author and editor of four books about software testing, analysis, and verification. Since several years, he is also a lecturer for software quality assurance at the University of Bochum.
(peter.liggesmeyer@mchp.siemens.de)
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Dr. Edward F. Miller, Software Research, Inc., USA
  (Program Chair)

Dr. Edward Miller is President of Software Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, where he has been involved with software test tools development and software engineering quality questions. Dr. Miller has worked in the software quality management field for 25 years in a variety of capacities, and has been involved in the development of families of automated software and analysis support tools. He was chairman of the 1985 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, and has participated in IEEE conference organizing activities for many years. He is the author of Software Testing and Validation Techniques, an IEEE Computer Society Press tutorial text. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) degree from the University of Colorado, and a BSEE from Iowa State University.
(miller@sr-corp.com)
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Prof. Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, USA

Leon Osterweil is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously he had been a Professor in, and Chair of, Computer Science Departments at both the University of California, Irvine, and University of Colorado, Boulder. He was the founding Director of the Southern California SPIN. He has been Program Committee Chair of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, the 2nd Symposium on Software Testing Analysis and Verification, the 4th International Conference on the Software Process, and the 2nd Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments. He has also presented keynote talks at such meetings as CASE 92 in Montreal, and the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering where he introduced the concept of Process Programming. He has consulted for such companies as IBM, Bell Laboratories, SAIC, MCC, and TRW, and is a member of SEI's Process Program Advisory Board. He has been elected a Fellow of the ACM.
(ljo@yquem.cs.umass.edu)
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Mr. Martin Pol, IQUIP, NETHERLANDS

Martin Pol, with more than 25 years of experience in information technology, has worked for IQUIP Informatica B.V. in The Netherlands since 1991, within Software Control Testen, a department dedicated to testing only. Since 1997 Martin Pol is also working in Belgium, where his services are available through GiTek Software n.v. in Antwerp. With exceptional insight and experience in practical testing issues, Martin is a respected speaker at conferences and training sessions throughout Europe and in the USA. He is responsible for many publications on structured testing in Dutch, English and French. He was involved in the development of the structured testing approach TMap. Under his management TMap became the Dutch and Belgian testing standard. Now the approach is used in more than 200 companies in the Benelux and other parts of Europe. Martin Pol is co-author of three Dutch books on TMap and Test Process Improvement, and of the English translations of TMap and TPI, that will be available in the autumn of 1998. As Manager Research & Development he is responsible for the innovation of the testing methods of Software Control Testen and GiTek. Martin Pol was Programme Chair of the EuroSTAR conference in 1996 and 1997 and is Chairman of the Dutch Special Interest Group in Software Testing, TestNet.
(MP@gitek.be)
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Ms. Suzanne Robertson, The Atlantic Systems Guild, ENGLAND

Suzanne Robertsonis a teacher and consultant specialising in modelling techniques for system development. She has co-authored courses on systems analysis and software design for both procedural and object-oriented systems, requirements engineering, quality assessment and problem solving. Suzanne is currently developing techniques for identifying and reusing requirements patterns.

In 1966 Suzanne started her data processing career working on a missile flight simulation system for the Australian government. She moved from scientific work to the commercial field, where she worked on the design and implementation of an on-line investment system. Her team developed a system that integrated invoicing, inventory control, creditors and general ledger software. A network of Honeywell computers, the largest in Australia, and a variety of intelligent terminals, linked over 100 businesses in four states.

Since 1978, Suzanne has consulted, done research and taught in Europe, Australia, the Far East and the United States. She specialises in helping companies to adapt modern software development techniques to fit specific projects. Her seminars and papers are well respected as sources of new software development ideas.

Suzanne and James Robertson are co-authors of Complete Systems Analysis: the Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers (Dorset House, 1994), a two-volume text and case study that teaches the core skills necessary for systems analysis.

Suzanne is working on research into reuse of requirements. The products of this research are a requirements filter for assessing requirements quality, and a pattern book for specifying business requirements.

Recent work in Poland has resulted in a process for training internal consultants. The process makes use of project clinics and and teaches technology transfer skills. The process, implemented in a large company over 2 years, has produced an effective team of 14 technical consultants.

Suzanne studied Information Processing at the New South Wales Institute of Technology, she is a member of the IEEE and is roving ambassador for the British Computer Society's Reuse Group.

(The Atlantic Systems Guild Website)
(Suzanne_Robertson@compuserve.com)
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Mr. Giuseppe Satriani, ESI, SPAIN

Giuseppe Satriani is presently a Product Line Leader at the European Software Institute (ESI). His main responsibilities are the coordination of the Software Process Improvement technical initiatives, the definition and the implementation of the Repository of Experience and the management of the EC initiative VASIE2.

He is SPICE qualified assessor, SEI Qualified Instructor for the CMM and a VASIE projects reviewer.

Giuseppe Satriani was previously an Engineer at the System-Test department at Olivetti SpA, afterwards he was Project Leader at the Quality department with the responsibility of quality system definition and application within the development department. Afterwards, he has been responsible for marketing activities (product promotion and suppliers management) at the Add-On Business Department.

Giuseppe Satriani received his BS degree in computer science from Pisa University.
(satriani@esi.es)
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Dr. Torbjorn Skramstad, NUST, NORWAY

Dr. Torbjorn Skramstad is currently a professor in Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Trondheim, Norway. He is also working part time in Det Norske Veritas as a software quality expert.

Dr. Skramstad has more than 20 years of experience in software development, software quality, software project management and teaching. He has an M.Sc. degree and PhD is from the Technical university of Norway (now NUST).

He has been involved in many projects with European and Norwegian industry, and with European Space Agency within the area of Software Quality.

Dr. Skramstad's current research interests include software verification and validation, test methods, and testing tools for complex and critical software systems.

Dr. Skramstad is Norwegian co-ordinator for the Encress Project- a European Network of Clubs for REliability and Safety of Software.
(torbjorn.skramstad@idi.ntnu.no)
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Prof. Andreas Spillner, Hochs.-Bremen, GERMANY

Dr. Spillner is currently working as Professor at the Hochschule Bremen (University of Applied Science) where he is responsible for software engineering and real time systems. Dr. Spillner has over 20 years experience in software development and teaching. He has been involved with development projects in collaboration with industry. He has a degree in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin and received his PhD on the dynamic integration testing of modular systems from the University of Bremen in 1990. He has also worked as Research Assistant and as Associate Professor at the University of Bremen.

Dr. Spillner is currently the chairman of the German Computer Society Special Interest Group for the Testing, Analysis and Verification of Software Systems. (GI-TAV). His research interests include the validation of software, test methods (especially for large software systems) and the testing of object-oriented software systems.
Dr. Spillner's home page (in German)
( spillner@informatik-hs.bremen.de)
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Dr. Tor Staalhane, SINTEF, NORWAY

Born: Skien, Norway on March 11, 1944.
Education: M.Sc. Technical University of Norway, Department of Electrical Engineering, Group for Physics and Electronics, 1966 Ph.D. Technical University of Norway, Department of Mathematical Sciences, group for Mathematical Statistics.

Positions: Principal Research Scientist at SINTEF Informatics and Telematics Professor of Computer Science at the Stavanger College

Main areas of competence: Safety and reliability in computer intensive systems Software process improvement

Main research activities: More efficient support for HazOp, FTA and FMEA for software. Methods for software reliability estimation, based on information on development company track record, development process, system operation environment and test results. Statistical models for combination of developer's expert knowledge and observations from real projects as a basis for process improvement Root Cause Analysis as a tool for process improvement
( tor.staalhane@informatics.sintef.no)
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Dr. Erik van Veenendaal, Improve Quality Service & T.U.Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS

Drs. Erik P.W.M. van Veenendaal CISA has been working as a practitioner and manager within the area of software quality for a great number of years carrying out assignments in the field of quality management, project control, EDP-auditing and software testing. He has recently been responsible and involved in a number of European projects within the area of software product quality. Within this area he specializes in software testing. As a test manager and test consultant he is involved in a number of various projects, he has implemented structured testing in a large number of organizations and gives (international) training courses on a regular basis.

He is author of a number of books, e.g. "Structured Testing: an introduction to TMap" and "Software quality from a business perspective" and a regular speaker both at national and international testing conferences. Erik van Veenendaal is the founder and director of Improve Quality Services, a company that provides services in the area of quality management and testing. At the Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, Erik is part-time involved in lecturing and research activities.
(e.p.w.m.v.veenendaal@tm.tue.nl)
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Mr. Otto Vinter, Brüel & Kjaer, DENMARK

Otto Vinter received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish Technical University in 1968. He has given public seminars, been associate teacher for BSc. level education in Computer Science, and is a active participant in Danish software-knowledge exchange groups. He is currently responsible for CEC sponsored projects at Brüel & Kjaer to improve the development process. In this position, he has also been active in defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be employed at Brüel & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's transition from procedural programming to Object-Oriented development. He has managed software development projects for 25+ years; with Brüel & Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corporation, and with Regnecentralen.
(Dr. Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(ovinter@bk.dk)
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Dr. Tony Wasserman, Software Methods and Tools, USA

Anthony I. Wasserman is President of Software Methods & Tools, which provides software development products and services. He was previously Founder and Chairman of IDE, which built the Software through Pictures modeling environment. Prior to that, Dr. Wasserman was a University of California professor, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and the University of Geneva. Tony has made numerous contributions to software engineering research, including pioneering work in rapid prototyping of interactive information systems and software engineering environments. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is among the few people to be elected as a Fellow of both the Association for Computing and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
(wasserman@methods-tools.com)
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