15th Stevens Lecture on
        Software Development Methods
     
     

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
26 December 2008

Contact:   Elliot Chikofsky, EM&I, USA
           tel +1 (781) 272-0049
           e.chikofsky@computer.org

    Harry Sneed to Receive the 15th
    Stevens Award


    Burlington, MA, USA -- Harry M. Sneed has been named as the 15th recipient of the international Stevens Award and will give the Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods.
     
    The presentation will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 25 March 2009 in Kaiserslautern, Germany at the Fraunhofer Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE). The Stevens Lecture will be a plenary session in the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2008).
     
    The international Stevens Award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The lecture presentations focus on lessons learned and challenges, with an emphasis on advancing or analyzing the state of software methods and their direction for the future.
     
    This prestigious award lecture is named in memory of Wayne Stevens (1944-1993), a highly-respected consultant, author, pioneer, and advocate of the practical application of software methods and tools. His 1974 IBM Systems Journal article "Structured Design" was the first published on the topic and has been widely reprinted. Stevens was the author of the books: Software Design: Concepts and Methods (Prentice-Hall Intl, 1991) and Using Structured Design (Wiley, 1981). His last article "Data Flow Analysis and Design" appears in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (Wiley, 1994). Stevens was the chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group.
     
     
    Harry M. Sneed
     
    Harry Sneed is being honored "for his leadership and many contributions to the practice and principled growth of software maintenance techniques and their industrialization".
     
    Within the software maintenance community, the name of Harry Sneed has been synonymous with the practical application of software techniques, tools, methods, and procedures in real-world industrial trials. What so many others have talked about in theory, Harry has tried in practice - and reported on to the community at large in software and systems engineering and management.
     
    With more than 160 published articles, both in English and German, in conference proceedings and computer science journals, as well as 13 books in German, Harry Sneed is one of the more widely-read research engineers in software - and certainly its most prolific industrial rapporteur. His papers have taught and inspired many software practitioners and researchers worldwide, both in industry and academia. Readers have learned what worked, what did not, and why - showing promising directions and saving others from false paths.
     
    Along the way, he has been the developer of more than 60 software engineering tools with applications in testing, auditing, maintenance, measurement, estimation, reengineering, reverse engineering, and software wrapping.
     
    Harry Sneed graduated from the University of Maryland with a Masters Degree in Public Administartion and Information Sciences in 1969. His work has been as a Programmer/Analyst at the U.S. Navy Department for three years, as a Programmer, Analyst and Instructor at the Volkswagen Foundation for three years, as a Systemsprogrammer and Project Leader at Siemens for four years, as an independent Test Consultant for two years, as a Software Laboratory Leader for the SZAMOK and SZKI Institutes in Hungary from 1980 to 1989, as a Reengineering Project Leader at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich from 1989 to 1996, as a test and reengineering consultant for two years, and as a Research Consultant in Italy and England where he participated in three ESPRIT projects - TRUST, METKIT and DOCKET. In the past five years, he has worked as a tool developer and QA consultant for a Viennese software house - SDS - developing distributed software applications for banks and as a reengineering consultant and lecturer for a German software reengineering company - CaseConsult. Since 2000, he has been teaching Software Engineering at the University of Regensburg, XML and Software Cost Estimation at the University of Sannio in Italy, and Software Maintenance & Reengineering at the University of Szeged in Hungary.
    Additional bio and contact info
     
     
    Previous Stevens Award Recipients
     
    The 14 prior recipients of the Stevens Award are:
    • Nicholas Zvegintzov (2007), for his career leadering the practice and understanding of software maintenance;
    • Grady Booch (2006), for leadership in object-oriented analysis and the development of the Unified Modeling Language (UML);
    • Mary Shaw (2005), instrumental in the foundations of software architecture and software engineering education (USA);
    • Jim Highsmith (2005), advocate and promoter of agile and adaptive methods in software development and project management;
    • François Bodart (2004), research leader in practical applications of systems development technologies (Belgium);
    • Manny Lehman (2003), authority on software evolution (United Kingdom);
    • Cordell Green (2002), founder and chairman of Kestrel Institute (USA);
    • Peter Chen (2001), advocate of entity-relationship modeling (USA);
    • Gerald Weinberg (2000), noted author on understanding how people and software technology work together (USA);
    • Tom DeMarco (1999), principal of Atlantic Systems Guild and noted analyst and authority on software project management, methods, and people processes (USA);
    • Tom McCabe (1998), software metrics expert and creator of cyclomatic complexity analysis (USA);
    • Michael Jackson (1997), creator of the Jackson Software Development methods (United Kingdom);
    • David Harel (1996), professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and founder of i-Logix and the Statemate toolset; and,
    • Tony Wasserman (1995), founder and chairman of Interactive Development Environments and researcher on software tools (USA).
       
       
    The Stevens Award and lecture is managed by the Reengineering Forum (REF) industry association. The award was founded by IWCASE, an international workshop association of users and developers of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) technology, recently merged into REF. Stevens was a member of the IWCASE executive board.
     
    Reference web sites:
      CSMR conference: http://csmr2009.iese.fraunhofer.de/
      Stevens Award: http://reengineer.org/stevens/
       
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    Stevens Award Founders (IWCASE):
     Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA
     Elliot Chikofsky, Engineering Management and Integration, USA
     François Coallier, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
     Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
     David Budgen, Keele University, UK
     Gene Hoffnagle, IBM Corporation, USA
     Paul Layzell, University of Manchester, UK
     Danny Poo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
     Jos Trienekens, Technical Univ Eindhoven, Netherlands
     June Verner, National ICT Australia

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