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Keynote Speeches for PRDC will
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 Prof.
W. Kent Fuchs
Dean of Engineering, Cornell University
Speech Title: "Dependable Computing in the Context of
Mobility, Nomadicity, Ubiquity, and Pervasiveness"
Prof. Kent Fuchs has been dean of the
College of Engineering, Cornell University, since 2002. He was
formerly head of the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Purdue University, and Michael J. and Catherine
R. Birck Distinguished Professor. Before serving at Purdue, he
was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University
of Illinois. Fuchs received his BSE degree from Duke
University, his MDiv degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School, and his PhD in electrical engineering from the
University of Illinois.
His research
interests include dependable computing, testing, and failure
diagnosis. He has been a member of the editorial board for the
IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and
the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. He
is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.
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Prof. Tohru Kikuno
Osaka Univ., Japan
Speech Title: "Why do software projects fail?: Reasons and a
solution using a Bayesian classifier to predict potential risk"
Prof. Tohru Kikuno was born in Ehime, Japan, on
September 11, 1947. He received the B.E., M.Sc., and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from Osaka University,
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, in 1970, 1972, and 1975, respectively.
He joined Hiroshima University from 1975 to 1987. Since 1990, he
has been a Professor of the Department of Information and
Computer Sciences at Osaka University.
His research interests include the analysis and design of
fault-tolerant systems, the quantitative evaluation of software
development processes, and the design of procedures for testing
communication protocols.
He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, IEICE (the
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers), and a fellow of IPSJ (Information Processing Society
of Japan). He received the Paper Award from IEICE in 1993. He
served as a program co-chair of the 1st International Symposium
on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC '98)
and the 5th International Conference on Real-Time Computing
Systems and Applications (RTCSA'98). He also served as a
symposium chair of the 21st Symposium on Reliable Distributed
Systems(SRDS2002).
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