William G. Griswold is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. [1] His research is in software engineering; he is best known for his works on aspect-oriented programming using AspectJ [2] and on finding invariants of programs to support software evolution. [3]
Griswold received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Computer Science 1991 as well as a M.S. Computer Science 1988. His BA was from the University of Arizona in 1985. Major Mathematics, minor Computer Science, with highest honors) and joined the UCSD faculty in 1991. [1] He has been the chair of ACM SIGSOFT, [1] [4] co-program chair of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering, [1] [5] and program chair of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. [1] [6]
He is the son of Ralph Griswold. [7] He has two children Hannah [8] and Atticus. [9]
Bertrand Meyer is a French academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language and the idea of design by contract.
In aspect-oriented software development, cross-cutting concerns are aspects of a program that affect several modules, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any of them. These concerns often cannot be cleanly decomposed from the rest of the system in both the design and implementation, and can result in either scattering, tangling, or both.
David Harel is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and holds the William Sussman Professorial Chair of Mathematics. Born in London, England, he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the institute for seven years.
Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to introduce an automated system to help with the Plant's operations. After receiving her PhD, she joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in 1996, where she worked on and led various projects relating to issues of software composition, morphogenic software, and aspect-oriented software development.
Elaine Jessica Weyuker is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an AT&T Fellow at Bell Labs for research in software metrics and testing as well as elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She is the author of over 130 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings.
Mehdi Jazayeri is the founding dean of the faculty of informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, and author of several textbooks on computer software. He was awarded the Influential Educator Award in 2012 by the ACM SIGSOFT.
Kevin J. Sullivan is an American associate professor of computer science at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. He also holds the title of Virginia Engineering Foundation (VEF) Endowed Faculty Fellow in computer science at the University of Virginia. He is best known for his work with ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems.
In computing, subject-oriented programming is an object-oriented software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the objects themselves, but are provided by various subjective perceptions ("subjects") of the objects. The term and concepts were first published in September 1993 in a conference paper which was later recognized as being one of the three most influential papers to be presented at the conference between 1986 and 1996. As illustrated in that paper, an analogy is made with the contrast between the philosophical views of Plato and Kant with respect to the characteristics of "real" objects, but applied to software ones. For example, while we may all perceive a tree as having a measurable height, weight, leaf-mass, etc., from the point of view of a bird, a tree may also have measures of relative value for food or nesting purposes, or from the point of view of a tax-assessor, it may have a certain taxable value in a given year. Neither the bird's nor the tax-assessor's additional state information need be seen as intrinsic to the tree, but are added by the perceptions of the bird and tax-assessor, and from Kant's analysis, the same may be true even of characteristics we think of as intrinsic.
Carlo Ghezzi is an emeritus professor and former chair of software engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and an adjunct professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. At the Politecnico, he has been the Rector's Delegate for research, department chair, head of the PhD program, and member of the academic senate and of the board of governors of Politecnico.
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Leon Joel Osterweil is an American computer scientist noted for his research on software engineering.
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Axel van Lamsweerde is a Belgian computer scientist and Professor of Computing Science at the Universite catholique de Louvain, known for his work on requirements engineering and the development of the KAOS goal-oriented modeling language.
Tore Dybå is a Norwegian scientist and software engineer in the fields of information systems and computer science. He has been a Chief Scientist at SINTEF ICT since 2003.
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Grigore Roșu is a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a researcher in the Information Trust Institute. He is known for his contributions in runtime verification, the K framework, matching logic, and automated coinduction.
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