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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has announced the slate of software engineering thought-leaders who will serve as keynote speakers for the Team Software Process (TSP) Symposium 2012. Held in St. Petersburg, Fla., on September 17-20, the TSP Symposium 2012 keynote line-up includes Girish Seshagiri, chief executive officer at Advanced Information Systems; Rod Chapman, principal engineer at Altran Praxis; and Fernando...
PITTSBURGH, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has announced the software engineering thought-leaders who will keynote SEPG Europe 2012 to be held June 5-7, 2012, in Madrid, Spain. The five experts who will share their passion on software quality and process performance are Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology; Angel Jordan, Carnegie Mellon University; Anita Carleton, Software Engineering Institute; Andrew Nolan,...
PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) recently announced that Stephany Bellomo has been named the chief engineer for the Civil & Defense Agency Team at the SEI. Bellomo, who has served as acting chief engineer for the past year, manages a team of acquisition and software experts who work with various civil and defense agencies through collaboration and innovative research. Some of these agencies include the...
PITTSBURGH, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today announced the four thought-leaders who will keynote SEPG Europe 2011 in Dublin, Ireland, on June 7-9, 2011. Martin Curley, Bill Curtis, James Over, and Alexander Springer will explore the theme Global Excellence in Software and Security as it relates to the changing and evolving landscape of software, software systems, process improvement, and software quality and their impact on...
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute today announced the keynote speaker lineup for SEPG North America 2011, to be held in Portland, Ore., from March 21 to 24. Headlining the SEPG North America 2011 conference program are three highly-regarded thought-leaders in software, technology, and process improvement: K. Dinesh, co-founder and member of the board of directors at Infosys Technologies Limited; William "Liam" Durbin, former chief...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) recently announced that Stephen Blanchette has been named the new chief engineer for Army programs. As the chief engineer, Blanchette will lead a team of the SEI's acquisition experts and software practitioners in working directly with the U.S. Army to navigate the intricacies of acquiring complex software and systems. "As the U.S. Army continues to embrace advanced software...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Watts Humphrey, founder of the Software Process Program at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, died Thursday at his home in Sarasota, Florida. He was 83. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101028/NE90990 ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20101028/NE90990 ) "Watts Humphrey was one of the icons of software engineering--one of a handful of engineers like Barry Boehm,...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) recently named Anita Carleton director of its Software Engineering Process Management (SEPM) Program. As director of the SEPM Program, Carleton will oversee the SEI's software process and measurement initiatives, which include the internationally recognized Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework, which helps organizations increase the maturity of their processes to...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) announced that Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt has joined the SEI in its Arlington, Va., office as deputy director, research, and chief technology officer. Schmidt will lead the SEI in identifying and responding to the needs of sponsors, customers, and partners. "I've been involved with the high impact work at the SEI for years, am excited to join the SEI leadership team, and look forward to...
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- SEPG Conference -- InnerWorkings(R), the leading provider of practice-based solutions for improving developer skills and software processes, announced today the release of its introductory online learning content for the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Personal Software Process(SM) (PSP). This accredited online course covers the prerequisite skills that software developers need to participate fully in Team Software Process(SM) (TSP) teams....
