Ross Anderson , Professor of security engineering, Cambridge
University
Ross Anderson is one of the founders of the discipline of
information security economics. He has documented security failures
in a number of important distributed systems, including automatic
teller machines, prepayment electricity meters and medical record
systems. He has written extensively on good security design, and is
the author of the standard textbook Security Engineering.
James Backhouse, Director, Information System Integrity
Group, London School of Economics
James Backhouse pioneered the study of IT security from a social
science perspective. He was a member of the committee which
extended BS7799 for web-based operations. He has published in
numerous academic journals in the fields of security, online
education, risk and financial crime. Current projects involve
financial regulation and profiling for the prevention of money
laundering.
David Bustard, Professor, School of Information and Software
Engineering, University of Ulster
David Bustard's main research area is requirements engineering,
particularly in relation to the evolution of software systems and
their alignment with organisational needs. Before becoming an
academic he worked at Ferranti Digital Systems. He has also been a
visiting fellow at the Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh
and at the BT Research Labs in Ipswich.
Ewart Carson, Professor of systems science, Centre for
Health Informatics, City University
Ewart Carson is a member of the executive team of the Healthcare
Technologies Professional Network of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, a technical board member of the International Federation
of Automatic Control (Ifac) and chairman of the Ifac co-ordinating
committee for bio- and ecological systems. He has been awarded
honorary membership of the Royal College of Physicians, fellowship
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and
fellowship of the American Institute of Medical and Biological
Engineers.
Patrik O'Brian Holt, Professor, School of Computing, The
Robert Gordon University
Patrik O'Brian Holt has 20 years of experience in consultancies
relating to human factors engineering and human computer
interaction. His clients have included the Scottish Office,
Lockheed-Martin, NHS, IBM and the Scottish Court of Sessions.
Roland Ibbett, Professor, School of Informatics, University
of Edinburgh
Roland Ibbett is a leading member of Institute for Computing
Systems Architecture. His research interests include computer and
network architectures, design and simulation and performance
evaluation. At Edinburgh he has developed Hase (Hierarchical
computer Architecture design and Simulation Environment), a virtual
laboratory for research in computer architecture.
Ray Ison , Professor of systems, Open University
Ray Ison's research centres on systems approaches to changing
organisational practices. Earlier this year he was invited to
contribute to a workshop on change and innovation in the NHS.
Achim Jung, Professor, School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham
Achim Jung's research interests include domain theory,
denotational semantics of programming languages, lambda calculus,
topology and cryptography.
Frank Land, Emeritus professor, IS department, London School
of Economics
Frank Land started his IT career with J Lyons in 1953, working
on the pioneering Leo computer first as a programmer and then as a
systems analyst. In 1982 he became professor of systems analysis at
the LSE. In 1986 he joined the London Business School as professor
of information management. He retired in 1991 and was appointed
emeritus professor at the LSE.
Bev Littlewood, Professor of software engineering, City
University
Bev Littlewood founded the Centre for Software Reliability, of
which he was director until 2003. He has worked for many years on
problems associated with the modelling and evaluation of software
dependability and is a member of the government's advisory
committee on the safety of nuclear installations and sits on an
International Federation for Information Processing working group
on reliable computing and fault tolerance.
John A McDermid, Professor of software engineering,
University of York
John McDermid is leader of the High Integrity Systems
Engineering Group within the Department of Computer Science at the
University of York. He has been technical director of the BAE
Systems Dependable Computing Systems Centre since 1991 and director
of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Systems and
Software Engineering since 1993. He is a founder member of the UK
Computing Research Committee.
Julian Newman, Professor of computing, Glasgow Caledonian
University
Julian Newman specialises in the semantic web and collaborative
computing for Glasgow Caledonian University. He has worked on
grid-computing applications and grid security.
Brian Randell, Emeritus professor and senior research
investigator, School of Computing Science, University of
Newcastle
Brian Randell is an expert on secure systems. He began working
on computers with English Electric between 1957 and 1964 before
joining IBM's research centre at Yorktown Heights, New York. In
1971, as professor of computing science at the University of
Newcastle he initiated research into software fault tolerance. He
has been principal investigator on research projects on system
dependability funded by the government, the Ministry of Defence and
European Community bodies.
Uday Reddy, Professor, School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham
Uday Reddy's research focuses on functional programming, logic
programming and object-oriented programming, type systems,
semantics and reasoning methods, constructive logic and type
theory, automated deduction, program transformation and
synthesis.
Peter Ryan, Professor of computing science, University of
Newcastle
Peter Ryan is involved in the European Maftia (Malicious and
Accidental Fault Tolerance for Internet Applications) project using
fault tolerance techniques to build systems that are
intrusion-tolerant. He has conducted research in formal methods and
information assurance at GCHQ, CESG and Dera.
Geoffrey Sampson, Professor, University of Sussex
Sampson is professor of natural language computing at the
University of Sussex. He was formerly chairman of the Computer
Science & Artificial Intelligence Department. He has worked as
a consultant to BT Research Labs and the Royal Signals & Radar
Establishment (now Qinetiq).
Michael Smith, Visiting professor, Department of Computer
Science, University College London
Michael Smith is founder and technical director of medical
research company Medix UK, and visiting professor at University
College London and City University. He is a former professor of
health informatics at Keele University and former director of
information at North Staffordshire Health Authority.
Martin Shepperd, Professor of software technologies, Brunel
University
Martin Shepperd specialises in engineering complexity, with a
focus on software technologies and modelling.
Tony Solomonides, Reader in computer science and medical
informatics, University of the West of England
Tony Solomonides is involved in the European Community-backed
Healthgrid project, which is bringing the benefits of grid
computing to bear on medical imaging and image processing,
modelling the human body for therapy planning, pharmaceutical
research, and epidemiological studies.
Ian Sommerville, Professor of software, St Andrews
University
Ian Sommerville is a specialist in software engineering focusing
on system dependability, requirements engineering, service-centric
computing and the use of social analysis techniques in systems
design. For 20 years he was professor of software engineering at
Lancaster University.
Harold Thimbleby, Professor of computer science, Swansea
University
Harold Thimbleby is a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
holder and professor of geometry, Gresham College, London. He
specialises in user interface design and has worked as a consultant
for Andersen Consulting, BT, Canon, the UK Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council, the European Union, Greater Glasgow
Health Board and Logica.
Martyn Thomas, Visiting professor of software engineering,
Oxford University
Martyn Thomas is visiting professor of software engineering at
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, and at the University of
Bristol and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His company,
Thomas Associates, provides consultancy services in systems and
software engineering for public and private sector organisations.
Thomas is a former partner in Deloitte Consulting.
Colin Tully, Professor of software practice, Middlesex
University
Colin Tully studies failures in software-based systems and ways
of improving organisational capability for avoiding such failures.
He is currently involved in the establishment of the Centre for
Systems Forensics and Capability at Middlesex University. He
practised for 12 years as an independent software consultant and
systems engineer and is senior consultant with Cutter Consortium's
Agile Software Development & Project Management Practice.