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In Memoriam: Watts Humphrey, Software
Quality Champion and Inventor of the CMM
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Watts
Humphrey died on October 28 at age 83. He is famous for having
almost single-handedly revolutionized how we think about software
quality, in particular through his work at Carnegie-Mellon's
Software Engineering Institure (SEI) that led to the universally
recognized Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
For
a more complete biography of Watts Humphrey, see his obituary on the
Carnegie-Mellon Universite Web site.
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Reminder:
FOSE Symposium in Zurich |
The
Future of Software
Engineering (FOSE) Symposium will take place in Zurich on
Nov. 22-23, involving again some of the great thinkers in this
field, such as David Parnas and Niklaus Wirth (who invented the
Pascal language).
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Cutter
Consortium Summit 2010
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The
Cutter Summit took place on October 25-27 in Cambridge, Mass. As
usual, it was a high-quality event attended by 100+ people from
varied backgrounds. In a forthcoming issue, we will offer some
highlights from the keynotes, panel discussions and workshops. For
a quick summary, see Claude Baudoin's tweets.
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Peer-to-Patent
Relaunch
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The
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Oct.
11 that its popular Peer-to-Patent
program, a community effort to identify "prior art" that patent
examiners could oppose to patent applications, is going to be
relaunched.
Many corporate lawyers are weary of letting employees participate,
fearing that a company whose patent application is denied could sue
unfavorable reviewers and their employers. However, subject matter
experts have generally been quite willing to participate. Many
agree with the USPTO that they can contribute to a system that will
favor better patents and prevent frivolous ones from being approved
by examiners who lack key knowledge of the concerned
technologies.
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SC
'10 Exhibit Hall Passes
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The
SuperComputing 2010 conference will be held in New Orleans on Nov.
15-18. ATEJI, suppliers of the Ateji
PX Java language extension for parallel and multicore programming,
and of the OptimJ extension for optimization problem solving in
Java, may still have exhibit hall passes for readers of The KIT on
a first-come, first-served
basis.
Of course, you may want to attend the whole conference, but if you
work in Houston and would like to drive or fly over for the day,
this is a great opportunity to find out what's new in the world of
high performance computing. Claude Baudoin will be helping the
ATEJI people at their booth in the "disruptive technologies"
showcase area.
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"Changing
the world of anything is an outrageous personal commitment. I knew
I couldn't do it alone, and I wanted to be in an environment where
I could work with folks and do that."
- Watts Humphrey,
software quality pioneer at the SEI and inventor of the Capability
Maturity Model, who died on Oct. 28, in an early 2010 interview,
talking about his 1986 decision to leave IBM and join the SEI
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