Presenters at CUSEC 2005

We're proud to have our five keynotes and twelve speakers on board.

A tentative schedule is available.

Keynotes

CUSEC's keynote speakers are pioneers, mentors, leaders in our field - all round interesting people.

	Tony Bailetti Director, M. Eng. in Telecommunications Technology Management http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/bailetti.html
	Alistair Cockburn President, Humans and Technology Author of "Surviving Object-Oriented Projects" (1998) "Writing Effective Use Cases"    (Jolt Productivity Award 2001) "Agile Software Development"    (Jolt Productivity Award 2002) http://alistair.cockburn.us/
	J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger Founder, Diaspar Software Services Author, JUnit Recipes http://www.diasparsoftware.com/ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JbRainsberger
	Bran Selic IBM Distinguished Engineer IBM Rational Software Canada http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/selic.html
	Alan Wassyng Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Software Acting Director, Software Quality Research Laboratory (SQRL) McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~wassyng/

Academic Presentations

Our academic speakers will be presenting their research and the beliefs that guide their research.

• Jonathan Benn, Concordia University
  Multidisciplinary Participatory Design Environment
• Ashraf Gaffar, Concordia University
  MDA: What's in it for Patterns?
• Greg Wilson and Karen Reid, University of Toronto
  Using CVS to Manage Student Assignments
• Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo
  Is Emotion Relevant to Requirements Engineering?
• Robert Biddle, Carleton University
  System Metaphor in Extreme Programming

Student Paper Presentations

CUSEC provides a place for graduate students to present their research findings. Each presentation is accompanied by a conference paper to be published in the CUSEC 2005 Proceedings.

• Pankaj Kamthan, Concordia University
  Pair Modeling
• Daniel Sinnig, Frederic Rioux and Patrice Chalin, Concordia University
  Use Cases in Practice: A Survey
• Lawrence Liu, University of Calgary
  Supporting Agile Project Planning

Industry Presentations

We've tracked down industry veterans to share their experiences.

• Jerzy Prekurat, Director of Network Development
  Canadian Bank Note Co. Ltd
  How to develop software? Don't - most of it is out there, adapt it.
• Greg Wilson, University of Toronto
  A Real-World Development Lifecycle

Tutorials

Tutorials bring together theory and practice, featuring an interactive, hands-on approach. Our tutorial presenters will show attendees a process or methodology complete with examples and discussion.

• Chris Ness, McMaster University
  Using Subversion
• Ashraf Gaffar, Concordia University
  Pattern-Oriented Design and Integration
• Dave Rooney, Mayford Technologies Inc.
  Extreme Programming in the Wild

Check back soon - we'll be posting presentation abstracts.