University of Waterloo
Cheriton School of Computer Science
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Look at explanations, research and thesis topics, and goals.
The current instantiation of this series:
27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference,
23 -- 27 September 2019,
Jeju Island, South Korea
Two computer scientists (Erik Kamsties and I) and one lawyer--computer scientist (Mickey Krieger) have written ``From Contract Drafting to Software Specification: Linguistic Sources of Ambiguity, A Handbook''.
This handbook is intended to be a living document. We invite comments, additional examples, etc. from readers. If you wish to provide translations of the examples into equally ambiguous sentences in other languages, please contact me (just to make sure that someone else is not already doing it!). As we get these translations, we shall add them to the original document or make them available as separate documents or both!
Ph.D., Computer Science, Brown University, 1974
B.S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1969
Erik Kamsties and I have written a chapter titled ``Ambiguity in Requirements Specification'' in a book, edited by Julio Leite and Jorge Doorn, titled Perspectives on Software Requirements, published by Kluwer, with table of contents .
I give a number of socko lectures that are guaranteed to enliven an audience and to knock everyone's socks off. If you want me to give one of these and are willing to pay my travel expenses and a modest honorarium, send e-mail to me to make arrangements. See the abstracts of possible lectures to help choose one.
The three most popular these days are ``The Inevitable Pain of Software Development: Why There Is No Silver Bullet'', ``Formal Methods, the Very Idea, Some Thoughts'', and ``Requirements Engineering Lessons from House Building''. These are based on papers that I have written, which you can find by searching for the words ``The Inevitable Pain of Software Development'', ``Formal Methods, the Very Idea, Some Thoughts on Why They Work When They Work'', ``Creep'', and ``Adventures'' (there are several versions of the first two) in the bibliography.
One of my sets of slides have been made public, with my permission, by WeberDev.com. You might want to look at them. Better yet, you might want me to come to deliver these slides in person; they are so much better in person.
It has been said that I am very energetic during my lectures, that I move around a lot during my ``dance'' routine. At CMU's SEI, they were videotaping whole courses as I taught them. I was told that following my dancing around wore out several video camera servo mechanisms and that following my dancing with the camera was good training for televising hockey games with their fast moving pucks. You might wish to see three ``still'' photos of me giving a lecture at PUC in Rio de Janeiro, taken on 1 August 2003 by Leonardo Cunha. In the first, my hand and mouth are a blur, in the second, my arm is a blur, and in the third, I am in a rare quiescent state.
Technion:
MATAM--Introduction to
System Programming (Winter 1996)
Software Engineering Methods (Spring 1997)
Seminar: Electronic Publishing (Spring 1997)
Seminar: Requirements Engineering (Winter 1997)
Seminar: Full Year SE Lab: Requirements Engineering of WD-PIC (Winter 1997)
Waterloo:
Software Abstraction and Specification (CS246) (Spring 2000)
( Permanent Course
Web Page)
Software
Requirements and Specification (ECE451/CS445/CS645)
Software
Requirements and Specification (SE463)
Social Implications
of Computing (CS492/CS692)
Advanced Topics in Requirements
Engineering (CS846)
Advanced Topics in Electronic
Publishing (CS846)
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo,
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada
None: I do not hear well enough to hear on the phone;
so faxing or e-mailing me is better)
fax: +1-519-888-4305 (or if that does not work, then try +1-519-746-5422)
e-mail
address
My office is 3329 Davis Centre. This room is in the Computer Systems Group suite, which is on the third floor, just above the Cheriton School of Computer Science's main office on the second floor.
11-522 Beechwood Drive
Waterloo, Ontario N2T 2G9
Canada
Directions to my house assuming that you are already in Waterloo
telefax: 1-519-885-7222
I do not hear well enought to hear on the phone. Therefore, even if I am at
home, I do not answer the phone unless I am expecting your
call at the time of the call. Regardless of what the answering machine
says, do not leave a recorded message for me . Instead,
send me a fax over the same line or send me
e-mail
An alternative explanation of the origins of the U.S. Thanksgiving. Enjoy!
A LiVEJOURNAL discussion on bagels in Kitchener-Waterloo.
If you want to invite me to give this talk, I will be happy to come. Here is an abstract for announcing it.
I have read two books that describe the kinds of thinking and the kinds of behaviors that I think are very helpful in someone who is seeking to earn a PhD.
You might wish to look also at lecture slides by Steve Easterbrook
about how to write a Ph.D. dissertation.
The title is ``How Theses Get Written: Some Cool Tips''
You might wish to look at the PhD Comics, by Jorge Cham, for a thorough,
but comic exploration of the phenomemon of procrastination among graduate
students, Ph.D. students in particular.
Here is a website describing non-profit universities offering online
doctorate programs. This website has no sponsored search or ranking. The
main goal is to promote the gems and little known doctoral programs
that can be completed online at the world-class non-profit academic
institutions.
(Thanks to Lukas Pech
(lukas_pech@hotmail.com) for bringing this site to my attention.).
A caricature drawn of me in 2005 at
the RE'05 banquet at the Musée des Arts Forains (Museum of Amusement
Parks) in Paris, France. See what 20 years has done to me!
Here are
two
photos
taken of me while the Parisian caricaturist was drawing me.
A caricature drawn by Pete
Sawyer of me in
2017 at the RE at 40 Seminar held at the former Monastery at Kappel am Albis,
Kloster, Switzerland. He drew it for the benefit of his daugher Gabriella,
who had, like I, attended every IEEE RE conference during her lifetime.
See what another 12 years has done to me!
This is an engraving of the 2005 RE'05
caricature on a beer mug produced and given to me by Jeremy Barbay
as a very nice honorarium for the ``How to Finish that Damn Ph.D.''
talk that I gave in May 2017 at Universidad de Chile, in Santiago Chile.
Thank you Jeremy for this and your hospitality!!!!
Me in Full Academic Regalia at a PhD Defense in Europe
This is I dressed in full academic
regalia (I had to wear dress pants, dress shirt, shoes, and socks
underneath.) asking the candidate a question during a PhD defense in
Europe.
Caricatures that Have Been Drawn of Me
A caricature drawn of me in 1985 at
Knott's Berry farm (where I was grown :-) ) in Beuna Park, California.
I had told the caricaturist that I was a computer science professor at
UCLA. He misspelled ``computer'' and mistakenly assumed that I wore a
tie and a jacket at work, even though I assured him that the shorts and
T-shirt I was wearing that hot summer day was my normal work attire at
UCLA.
About My Hearing and Why I don't speak Hebrew
Directions to Haifa and the Technion
To see links to maps showing how to get to
Technion and Haifa from Ben Gurion Airport
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