London: IT failure and the public sector / AGM (Thursday, 17 November)
IT Failure and the public sector. Presented by Anthony Finkelstein. Followed by the AGM: UK UPA Vision for 2006 and beyond.
RSVP: To reserve your place, email: events@ukupa.org.uk with your name, stating whether you are a UPA member.
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: MSN, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1R 3DG map
Cost: FREE for UPA members; £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students)
Bio:
Anthony Finkelstein is a graduate in systems engineering holding a BEng, MSC and PhD. He is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL), a leading UK research university where he works in the broad field of software systems engineering. He is a Fellow of both the IEE and BCS and has been recognised for his contributions to the field of requirements engineering by the IEEE.
In 2003 he was a joint winner (with Jeff Kramer and Bashar Nuseibeh) of the prestigious ICSE 'most influential paper' prize for work on 'viewpoints' and in 2004 was winner of the Requirements Engineering 'most influential paper' prize for work on traceability. He has served on numerous editorial boards including that of ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE, he was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering. The 'state-of-the-art' review he edited remains the publication with the highest impact factor in software engineering. He has also chaired numerous international meetings and was General Chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering 2004.
He was keynote speaker at Automated Software Engineering 2003 in Montreal, Canada. He is outgoing Chair of IFIP WG 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering) an international research society. He has established a leading research group in software systems engineering at UCL and played a key role in the foundation of London Software Systems. He is now Head of the Department of Computer Science at UCL.
Anthony Finkelstein is a Director of Systemwire a UCL spinout technology company.