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Upcoming Meeting(s):TOPIC: Design Capture as a Paradigm; Design Recovery as a Practical Approach PRESENTERS: Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D. CEO Semantic Designs, Inc. DATE: Nov 16, 2016 TIME: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm LOCATION: The Advisory Board Company, 12357-C Riata Trace Parkway, Bldg 7, Suite 100, Austin, Texas, United States 78727 COST: FREE FREE Food & Drinks, Limited Seats RSVP is required: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/42129 Abstract
Software continues to grow in size. Building software is hard and expensive but only takes finite time. Maintaining it to meet new needs indefinitely once it is built is harder and more expensive; many current systems are 30 to 50 years old. Much of the "maintenance" effort is really rediscovering the program structure and purpose. Yet we have little theory about how to do this. Presenters/Bios Dr. Baxter has been building system software since 1969, when he built a timesharing system on Data General Nova serial #3. In the mid seventies, he built realtime, single user, multi-user systems and locally distributed OSes on 8 bit CPUs. Realizing that software engineering was largely enhancement of existing code rather than building new code, and that the OS architectures were conceptually similar but shared no code, he went back to graduate school to learn more about reuse of knowledge in software maintenance. He studied program transformation tools for code generation and modification, obtaining a PhD from UC Irvine in 1990. At the Schlumberger Computer Science lab, he worked on generation of parallel CM-5 Fortran code for sonic wave models from PDEs. He spent several years as consulting scientist for Rockwell Automation working on automating factory control. In 1996, he founded Semantic Designs, where he is now CEO and CTO. At SD, he architected DMS, a general purpose program transformation engine, used in commercial software reengineering tasks, and he designed |