Watts S. Humphrey founded the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University . He is a Fellow of the Institute and is a research scientist on its staff. From 1959 to 1986, he was associated with IBM Corporation, where he was director of programming quality and process. His publications include many technical papers and seven books. His most recent books are Managing the Software Process (1989), A Discipline for Software Engineering (1995), Managing Technical People (1996), Introduction to the Personal Software Process (1997), Introduction to the Team Software Process (2000), and Winning With Software: An Executive Strategy. He holds five US . Patents. In 1991 he served on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago , a master's degree in physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago . Mr. Humphrey was awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree in software engineering by Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998. In 2000, the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai , India was named in his honor and the Boeing Corporation presented him with an award for innovation and leadership in software process improvement.

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Tom Gilb
Results Planning Ltd.
Keynote Presenting: Why Software Projects Fail, How to Diagnose Potential Failure and How to Make Your Projects Succeed

Biography:

Tom Gilb won the award for Best Tutorial Speaker, of 18 different tutorials, December 2003 Eurostar Conference, Amsterdam . Award was based on participant feedback forms.

Tom Gilb is an international consultant, teacher and author. His 9th book is ‘Competitive Engineering' which is a definition of the planning language ‘Planguage'. He works with major multinationals such as HP, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola , US DOD , UK MOD, Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, British Aerospace, Microsoft and many others. See his website www.gilb.com for a wide variety of info.

Gilb is recognized as one of the pioneers of teaching and writing about Evo methods ( example Wiki encyclopedia, Craig Larman's History of Iterative methods IEEE Computer, June 2003) and Larman's Book on Iterative methods, By Kent Beck as inspiration for the XP development cycles etc.)

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Dr. James A. Whittaker
Florida Institute of Technology
Keynote Presenting: How to Break Software Security

Biography:

James A. Whittaker is a professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tennessee in 1992. His research interests are software testing, software security, software vulnerability testing and anti cyber warfare technology. He is the author of How to Break Software , How to Break Software Security (with Hugh Thompson) and over 50 peer-reviewed papers on software development and computer security. He holds patents on various inventions in software testing and defensive security applications and has attracted millions in funding, sponsorship and license agreements while a professor at Florida Tech. He also has served as a testing and security consultant for Microsoft, IBM, Rational and many more US companies. In 2001 he was appointed to Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board and was named a “Top Scholar” by the editors of the Journal of Systems and Software based on his research publications in software engineering. His research team at Florida Tech is known for its testing technologies and tools, which include the highly acclaimed runtime fault injection tool Holodeck . His research group is also well known for their development of exploits against software security, including cracking encryption, passwords and infiltrating protected networks via novel attacks against software defenses.

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