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Topic: Blogs to Books: Get Out and Publish!
Abstract -- Computer science impacts more and more aspects of everyone's daily life: from the code that activates our car air bags, to the iPods hanging from our belts playing 10,000 songs, to the spam in our mailboxes. For professionals --scientists, engineers, academicians, programmers, managers-- more tools than ever before are available for conducting research, product development, and teaching. For example:
- We can take graduate students into the deep recesses of Bayesian theory and formal proofs.
- At the stroke of a few keys we can bring the most advanced super computer to a stop with our models of the upper atmosphere.
But as professionals, are we ignoring the critical areas of ethics and system correctness? While looking to build the next, great piece of technology, are professionals pushing aside the ethics of not "stealing" through copying intellectual property or developing a new "Denial of Service" attack? Are we pushing slick technology but failing to push the process of building working systems that get requirements correct and don't fail to understand the same units of measure? Are we, in many ways, ignoring the engineering and management of technology?
Professional societies such as IEEE and ACM seem to focus on academia, the public sector, and research,
while in reality, commercial and private sector users need more attention. As professional technologists and technology managers, it is incumbent on us to share our knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Publishing is still the best way to share that knowledge.
This discussion will lead you through the publishing opportunities available today, from blogs to books. There are a wealth of paid and unpaid opportunities from your IEEE to your local business journal to the blogosphere.
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Biography -- Don Shafer is a co-founder, corporate director, and Chief Technology Officer of Athens Group, Inc. Incorporated in June 1998, Athens Group is an employee-owned consulting firm, integrating technology strategy and software solutions. Prior to Athens Group, Shafer led groups developing and marketing hardware and software products for Motorola, AMD and Crystal Semiconductor. He was responsible for managing a $129 million-a-year PC product group that produced award-winning audio components. From the development of low-level software drivers in yet-to-be-released Microsoft operating systems to the selection and monitoring of Taiwan semiconductor fabrication facilities, Shafer has led key product and process efforts. In the past three years he has led Athens engineers in developing industry standard semiconductor fab equipment software interfaces, definition of 300mm equipment integration tools, advanced process control state machine data collectors and embedded system control software agents. His latest patents are on joint work done with Agilent Technologies in state-based machine control. He earned a BS degree from the USAF Academy and an MBA from the University of Denver. Shafer's work experience includes positions held at Boeing and Los Alamos National Laboratories.
With two other colleagues in 2002, he wrote Quality Software Project Management for Prentice-Hall now used in both industry and academia. Currently he is working on an SCM book for the IEEE Software Engineering Series. He is the Editor in Chief for the IEEE Computer Science Press. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Austin Samaritan Center's Ethics in Business Award.
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National Instruments, 11500 North MoPac, Building C, room 1S15, Austin, TX 78759; see map.
From MoPac, exit at Duval (one exit south of Parmer). If coming from south of Duval, take the U-turn at Duval. If coming from north of Duval just go through the light at Duval.
Stay to the right on the southbound MoPac feeder road, pass the apartment complex, and take the first National Instruments entrance at 11500 North MoPac. Follow the entrance road across the small bridge and take the first right to get to the Building C parking area.
You can park in the garage or visitor lot on your right.
Conference suite 1S15, which is on the first floor. Walk through the lobby and elevator area towards the back of the building. Please sign in when entering.
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