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Software Construction: The Lynchpin of Quality
Presented by David Tilbrook
TLUG meetings are held at UofT on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm.
- Date
- Tuesday February 8, 2000
- Time
- 7:30 pm
- Topic
- Software Construction: The Lynchpin of Quality
- Speaker
- David Tilbrook
- David Tilbrook, one of the first UNIX users in Canada, is the Chief Scientist of QEF Advanced Software Inc. Previously he worked at MKS, SNI, CMU, IST, SDL, BNSR, and HCR, the last of which he was a founder. He studied at ic.ac.uk and U of T.
- His MSc thesis, NewsWhole, was one of the first CAD systems and the first system to use iconic cursors and faded light buttons. For many years NewsWhole was the subject of a question on Kelly Booth's computer graphics exams and the NewsWhole movie was shown at the 25th ACM SigGraph conference as one of the pioneer computer graphic systems.
- But graphics was just an 18 month diversion.
- His primary interest is large scale software construction and the problems that it entails.
- Last year he lectured on Software Engineering at UofT and IBM and got a 94% re-take rating in the anti-calendar, which he offers as empirical proof of a long held belief that S.E. can be fun and entertaining.
- David has been program chair for seven EurOpen and Usenix Conferences, (the only program chair to have dropped trou), is an honourary life-time member of EurOpen, and still uses a line editor.
- Description
- David Tilbrook of QEF is going to give a short talk about his company's product, the QEF Construction System. It seems to be a software product build management system of some kind but I'll let him present it himself.
- Location
- Room SF1105, Sandford Flemming Building, University of Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8
- University of Toronto
