W Cape Chapter Event: International Speaker & IFIP President: Evolving Critical Systems

Abstract:

Increasingly software is critical, due to the business or other functionality which it supports. Upgrades or changes to such software are expensive and risky, primarily because the software has not been designed and built for ease of change. Expertise, tools and methodologies which support the design and implementation of software systems that evolve without risk (of failure or loss of quality) are essential. We address an agenda for building software in computer-based systems that (a) is highly reliable and (b) retains this reliability as it evolves, either over time or at run-time and illustrate this with a complex example from the domain of space exploration.

Presenter:

Professor Mike Hinchey is the former Director of Lero and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick. Prof Hinchey was previously Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland. He remains as a consultant to NASA. His work with NASA was implemented in various space projects and will be incorporated in future missions. Particular areas of software research for Professor Hinchey include Formal Methods, Autonomous Systems and Software Reliability.

Professor Hinchey  has been President of IFIP since September 2016.

Delegate fee:
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IITPSA, ISACA, Women in IT & ISC2 Members: No charge | UCT staff and students: No charge | Non-members: R60
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Each Member may bring one non-member at no charge.

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