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Announcing CUSEC 2005

CUSEC | October 08, 2004 | 2 comments

The 4th annual Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2005) will be held in our nation’s capital (Ottawa, Ontario) from Thursday, January 13th to Saturday, January 15th 2005.

I am really excited about this years theme “Thinking Outside the Cubicle” which will cover working in teams in software engineering. I am even considering submitting an abstract for their Call for Presentations. Some example of topics that will be covered at the conference include:

• Division of labour
• Pair programming
• Source code management and revision control
• Dealing with managers
• Dealing with customers
• Dealing with programmers
• Collaboration in the open source world
• Lightweight and heavyweight software processes
• Interpersonal and psychological issues
• Knowledge management
• Patterns as a common language

We are officially announcing the first two keynotes here on Protose. When we get final confirmation from the other three keynote presenters we will announce them here as well.

First two keynote presenters for CUSEC 2005:

Joe Rainsberger
President/Founder
Diaspar Software Services

More Info:
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is the President and Founder of Diaspar Software Services, a software consulting and development firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Diaspar Software specializes in Agile Software Development on the Java platform. Mr. Rainsberger is the author of “JUnit Recipes”.

Dr. Tony Bailetti, Ph.D, M.B.A
Director of M.Eng in Telecommunications Technology Management
Carelton University

More Info:
Dr. Tony Bailetti was the Director of Carleton University’s School of Business from 1981 to 1988 and worked at Bell-Northern Research (today a part of Nortel Networks) from 1988 to 1992. Professor Bailetti has been the Director of the M.Eng. in Telecommunications Technology Management (TTM) program since 1998. He has published in engineering management journals such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, and R&D Management.

Two great keynote presenters and three more to be announced shortly.

The conference will span three whole days. There will be 5 keynote presentations as well as numerous academic, paper and industry presentations, a couple tutorials and a round table discussion that will include some of the keynote presenters. Don’t worry, you won’t only be exercising your brain while you attend the conference, you will also be required to exercise your social skills. After every full day of presentations activities will be organized in the evening so that you can get the opportunity to socialize with like-minded software engineering students and others interested in software engineering. Who knows, maybe the next Google team will be created at a social gathering at CUSEC!

Price of conference will be $55 before January 1st and $75 after January 1st; right up to the day of the conference.

Want to help put a delegation together from your school? Send an email to presentations [at] cusec.ca and tell them what school you are coming from and that you are interested in putting a delegation together you are from. If you want to know if a delegation has been put together from your school you can also email us at presentations [at] cusec.ca and we will be happy to help you.

We will be interviewing over the next couple of months some of the keynote presenters from CUSEC 2005 so you can get to know them better before attending the conference. So stay tuned.

Exectuive Summary

• What: CUSEC 2005
• When: January 13-15th 2004 (Thursday - Saturday)
• Where: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Why: Because you are a Software Engineering Student and proud of it
• How: $55… with all the money you save bootlegging software you can afford it. More importantly you can’t afford to miss it!

I look forward to seeing everyone there!

Related Links:

• CUSEC 2005 Website
• Joe Rainsberger Bio
• Diaspar Software Solutions
• Dr. Tony Bailetti

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Comments

October 9, 2004 04:46 AM | Louis-Philippe Huberdeau commented:

I guess I’ll have to reserve myself a seat!

October 14, 2004 01:16 PM | Anonymous commented:

Cool…. But why is it from thrusday to saturday and not from friday to saturday? It’s harder to get 2 days off than only one….

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