Mikio Aoyama
Candidate for TCSE Exec Committee Member
While world is shrinking, software engineering community is rapidly growing and facing a profound change in both technology and business. As a profession to the society, we need more collaboration across the borders and regions. My vision to TCSE is "the global professional community in software engineering across any boundaries for our better live".
I have been actively serving for IEEE Computer Society since mid 80s, as well as local communities including the foundation of the APSEC (Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference) in 1994, which is the leading community of software engineering in Asia-Pacific region. Not only geographical expansion, we are facing unprecedented challenges in new software engineering arena of embedded and ubiquitous software systems including mobile phones, digital apparatus and automotives. Embedded and ubiquitous software systems are not alone. They are connected together over the global network and services, and inseparably support our daily life.
I believe we, software professionals, are required to respond this.
My election to TCSE will bring the missions to extend the community and elevate the profession across the boundaries of both geography and domains.
Through the collaboration, I would like to take active role to:
1) Extend our community globally,
2) Contribute to address the new challenges in software engineering and to elevate our profession,
3) Improve the quality of services to both members and society.
I will be honor if selected, and do my best for our community, where all the people in software engineering profession can work together across the boundaries of all the regions and organizations, and of both researchers and practitioners.
BACKGROUND:
Mikio Aoyama is a professor in the Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering at Nanzan University, Japan. Before joining academia 1995, he worked for Fujitsu Limited for 15 year. His unique experience in both industry and academia broaden his activity and motivated him to bridge two communities of researchers and practitioners. He is actively consulting for industry. Since mid 80's, he has been serving for many activities in IEEE Computer Society including the member of editorial board of IEEE Software from 1991 to 1994, chair and program committee of many conferences; general co-chair of IEEE RE '04, PC Chair of IEEE EDOC 2000, program committee for Emerging Track and Workshops of ICSE '06, workshop chair for RE '06, program committee for EDOC '06 are a few of them. He served chair of SIGSE of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) from 1991 to 1995, and executive board of IPSJ. He has been actively working for the collaboration among the growing software engineering community in the Asia-Pacific region. He is one of the founding members of APSEC (Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference), and is currently serving the chair of Steering Committee of APSEC.
Mikio Aoyama received B.S. and M.S. in Electronics Engineering from Okayama University in 1978 and 1980, respectively. In 1993, he received best research award from IPSJ and the Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE Computer Society.
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Philippe Kruchten
Candidate for TCSE Exec Committee Member
I want to bring software engineering from a kind of enlightened craftsmanship to the level of a mature engineering discipline. To that effect I have worked on several fronts: working with professional organizations in Canada (APEGBC, CCPE) to get the profession of software engineering recognized, sponsoring the development of the SWEBOK, encouraging the creation of software engineering tracks in universities, notably UBC,where I am now a Professor, and developing with my team a software engineering handbook. My election to TCSE allow me to promote these goals across a wider range of geographies and organizations. As part of this, I will work with the Chair to see that TCSE is strengtehned organisationally. I will help other jurisdictions to understand the value of professionalism and register, certify and even license software engineers under the "software" label. The SWEBOK effort must be continued and brought to its next stage, where it can fully serve its function as a recognized definition of our field. The CSDP program should be given wider visibility to gain acceptance in industry. The research aiming specifically at SE must be better defined, and better differentiated from Computer Science, and coordinated with industry's concerns and needs. The updating of IEEE SE standards must be continued to account for new practices.
BACKGROUND:
Philippe Kruchten is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He has been Director of Process Development at IBM Canada, in charge of the Rational Unified Process®, a software engineering process framework on which he published 3 books. Kruchten has some 28 years of experience in software development, in the areas of telephone switches (8 years at Alcatel), compilation (the first validated Ada® compiler at NYU in 1982-84), and command and control systems in defence and aerospace (during his 16 years at Rational Software), in particular as the chief software architect of the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (1992-96).
Dr. Kruchten is a Senior Member of IEEE (Computer Society). He participated in the creation of IEEE Std-1471:2000, he is a sponsor and member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the SWEBOK. He is the first Professional Software Engineer licensed in British Columbia (1999). He was in the 1st batch of IEEE Certified Software Development Professionals (#99, January 2002). He is a founding member of IFIP WG2.10-Software Architecture, and chair of the steering committee for the WICSA series of conferences, an IEEE/IFIP joint endeavour.
Initially a mechanical engineer, Kruchten obtained a doctorate degree in information systems from the French Institute of Telecommunications in Paris.
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Kevin Ryan
Candidate for TCSE Exec Committee Member
I believe I bring insight, experience and innovation that benefits TCSE and the worldwide software engineering community. I have experience of academia and industry in the USA and the EU. Ireland has made a remarkable impact in the software field over the past 20 years and I am now Centre Director for a national software engineering research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland. I bring the lessons learned from being intimately involved both technically and politically. I've collaborated with US software development facilities in Ireland, while European research projects involved me with large EU companies. As TCSE and the Computer Society can be too focused on North America, I work to build bridges to Europe and beyond, to developing countries who may be looking to Ireland as a role model. I believe we need to professionalise software engineering. I helped link the Irish Computer Society with the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. TCSE should work with the international engineering bodies for mutual benefit and professional support. TCSE should further strengthen and improve its links with other professional bodies, particularly ACM and the British Computer Society.
BACKGROUND:
Professor Kevin Ryan is Professor of Information Technology and at the University of Limerick and Centre Director of ISERC -the Irish software engineering research centre. He was formerly Vice-President of the University of Limerick. He took degees of BA, BAI (Engineering) and PhD (Computer Science) from Trinity College Dublin in 1971 and 1978. Over the past 25 years he has lectured and researched on software topics in universities and industry in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Africa and Sweden and has been involved in a number of major ESPRIT projects on software and requirements engineering. He has been an adviser to the Irish government on the development of the Irish software industry and has acted as consultant to industry and to the EU ESPRIT Programme since its inception. He was a director of a number of start-up software companies. He has published papers on software engineering education, software engineering, and requirements engineering and serves on the editorial board of 3 journals. He was co-chair of the IEEE Requirements Engineering Symposium in 1999 and organisation and finance chair of ICSE2000. He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Kevin Ryan is a Chartered Engineer.
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