CUSEC 2006

I would like to bring your attention to our fifth and final Keynote announcement, Connie Heitmeyer.

Connie is the Head of the Software Engineering Section of the Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, and Chief Designer of the SCR. Her research interests are in formal specification and formal analysis of software and system requirements and of high assurance software systems. She is also very interested in transferring formal methods technology and tools to software practitioners. Connie’s keynote will describe the many different roles that formally based tools can play in debugging, verifying, and validating software and software artifacts, with emphasis on tools for specifying and analyzing software requirements.

See the Keynotes pages for Connie’s (and all the keynotes) bio and talk abstract. For more of Connie’s work, take a look at some of her selected publications.

Finally the answer you have all been waiting for: CUSEC 2006 will be held at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal. If you have attended CUSEC in Montreal in previous years it will not be hard to find, as the Omni is a block west of the Centre Mont-Royal.

For head delegates, stay tuned to the mailing list for details about hotels in the area with rates that are feasible for students.

Maps to the Omni courtesy of Google Maps and Omni Hotels (includes directions).

The Omni is located in the heart of the beautiful city of Montreal. Evenings after the conference you can get away with (or from) attendees and check out the many shoppes, pubs, and clubs in the downtown core, take a short Metro ride to Vieux-Montreal, or if the the temperature allows take a ride on a horse drawn sleigh atop Mont Royal.

If so, take a look at the Ruby on Rails Podcast and hear about it from two of the CUSEC keynotes - David Heinemeier Hansson and Chad Fowler.

This month’s Newsletter free ticket to CUSEC 2006 goes to Craig Wilson, from McMaster University - congratulations Craig! If you too would like a chance to win a free ticket, then sign up to the mailing list and watch for the Newsletter. Signing up to the mailing list also lets you get in touch with many of the people attending and organising CUSEC.

I am pleased to announce another keynote for CUSEC 2006, Chad Fowler. Chad is the Lead Developer with Naviance, co-founder of Ruby Central, author of “My Job Went To India”, and a former professional musician.

If you are into anything from engineering applications to the arts, I’m sure he will be yet another interesting person to meet and speak with at CUSEC 2006. Yet another great reason to register and attend!

Check out Chad and the other keynotes’ bios and abstracts here.