Scottish Computer Scientists - Ian Sommerville, Paul Dourish, Bill Buchanan (Paperback)

Chapters: Ian Sommerville, Paul Dourish, Bill Buchanan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian F. Sommerville, (born 1951) is a British academic. He is currently (2006) a full professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability. Ian Sommerville was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1951. He studied Physics at Strathclyde University and Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He is married and has two daughters. As an amateur gourmet, he has written a number of restaurant reviews. Ian Sommerville was a lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1975 to 1978 and at Strathclyde University, Glasgow from 1978-86. From 1986 to 2006, he was Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department at the University of Lancaster, and in April 2006 he joined the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, where he teaches courses in advanced software engineering and critical systems engineering. Ian Sommerville's research work has included system requirements engineering and system evolution. A major focus has been system dependability, including the use of social analysis techniques such as ethnography to better understand how people and computers deliver dependability. He was a partner in the DIRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability) consortium, which focused on dependable systems design and is now (2006) working on the related INDEED (Interd...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=779234