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Keynote Speakers - WICSA 2001 - Amsterdam - August 2001

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Mary Shaw: "When System Boundaries Dissolve: Research Opportunities in Software Architectures for Ubiquitous Computing and Communication"

Mary Shaw is the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a member of this faculty since completing the Ph.D. degree at Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. She had previously earned a B.A (cum laude) from Rice University and worked in systems programming and research at the Research Analysis Corporation and Rice University.

Her research interests in computer science lie primarily in the areas of programming systems and software engineering, particularly software architecture, programming languages, specifications, and abstraction techniques. She has participated in developing innovative curricula in Computer Science from the introductory to the doctoral level. Dr. Shaw has received the Warnier prize for contributions to software engineering and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Wojtek (Voytek) Kozaczynski: "Is Architecture a Product that Can Be Packaged and Sold?"

Wojtek (Voytek) Kozaczynski is the Director of Architectures & Application Frameworks Group at RATIONAL and he has been leading the e-development Accelerators initiative of the company. He has over 20 years of industrial and academic experience in building software.

He has held a number of positions both in industry and academia. At Rational he was the Director of Architecture Practice. Prior to joining RATIONAL he was the Chief Architect at System Software Associates, an ERP solutions provider for manufacturing sector companies. Before joining SSA, Wojtek worked at Andersen Consulting's Center for Strategic Technology Research where he held the positions of the Director of Software Engineering Laboratory and was an Associate Partner. Prior to that, Wojtek taught at the University on Illinois, Chicago where he researched application of AI to software and database design.

Wojtek's continues software engineering research interest has been in software architectures, software composition and large-scale software reuse. He also worked on tools and processes for automatic software understanding and re-engineering, knowledge-based software engineering and collaborative software development.

Wojtek has published over 30 journal and conference papers and has written chapters of books and collective works. He has given numerous presentations at conferences, workshops and professional meetings. He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the IEEE Software Magazine.

Wojtek (Voytek) Kozaczynski, Ph.D.
Directory, Architecture & Application Frameworks
RATIONAL Software Corporation

4900 Pearl East Circle, Suite 106
Boulder, CO 80301-6108
office: 303-544-7430
cellular: 303-588-2274
email: wojtek@rational.com