[Novalug] DC ACM Lecture, Monday April 6th: Donald Gotterbarn, "Software Development: More Than Just Programming"

DC ACM winter@frostmarch.com
Wed Apr 1 16:27:43 EDT 2009


The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, 
with support from the Washington Academy of Science, is proud to present 
the April 2009 lecture.

Speaker:  Donald Gotterbarn

Topic:    Software Development: More Than Just Programming

We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues 
that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and 
web interfaces. Development efforts are constrained in a number of 
positive and negative ways. This talk address some of those current 
issues including software standards, licensing of software developers, 
issues of malpractice and liability for unanticipated software errors, 
and professional and ethical issues.

Bio:

Don worked as a computer consultant on software systems for the U.S. 
Navy and for the Saudi Arabian Navy. He has also worked on the 
certification of software for vote counting machines and missile defense 
systems.

Don is the director of the Software Engineering Ethics Research 
Institute at East Tennessee State University. He also holds academic 
appointments in software engineering and ethics at universities in 
England and New Zealand.

He has published over 100 articles, contributed to more than a dozen 
books and written several encyclopedia articles. He chaired the 
committee that wrote the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and 
Professional Practice. His technical work includes funded research on 
performance prediction, object-oriented testing, and software 
engineering education and computer ethics.

Active in Professional Computer ethics for over 20 years, he was awarded 
both the Computers and Society” Making a Difference” award and the ACM 
“Outstanding Contribution” award for his work in promoting 
professionalism in the teaching and practice of software development. He 
chairs the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.

When:

Monday, April 6th 2009  7:30pm to 9:00pm

Where:

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 New York Avenue NW
(entrance is on 12th Street)

Near Metro Center

This lecture is free and open to the public.  ACM membership is not
required to attend.


Regards,

William Fielder
Chair, DC ACM



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