First Keynote speech by Brendan Murphy
Brendan Murphy from Microsoft Research will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at EDCC-2010:
“Developing accurate risk models requires mathematics, domain knowledge and common sense, although not necessarily in that order“
Abstract: It is very difficult to develop a risk model and have a paper describing that model being accepted in a journal or conference. But the real challenge is getting a set of experience engineers to accept and use your risk model. To achieve this you have to understand the limitations of the model and to do that you have to understand the limitations of the data you are analysing and also how the software is being developed. This talk looks at the development of a risk model for the Windows operating system, providing insights into our realization that mathematics does not necessarily solve all problem.
Speaker’s vita: Brendan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge UK. Brendan works in the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESM) activities in Microsoft focusing on software reliability, dependability, quality and process issues.
[Post updated 17/5/2010]