Harlan Mills: The Work Goes On

[Tom DeMarco]

When Dr. Harlan Mills died in 1996, our industry lost one of its
iconic figures. In his short span of years, he reached out and touched in
some way nearly all software practitioners. The work that Harlan started
in the 50s was to introduce useful abstractions and limited, practical
formalisms to a field that still belonged principally to craftsmen. Now
although our friend and mentor is departed, the work goes on.
On May 18, 1999 in Los Angeles, a community of software thinkers will
meet to celebrate Harlan's legacy and to consider important new work that
the legacy has engendered. The list of participants is already very
impressive:

o Terry Baker (panel)
o Vic Basili (host and panel moderator)
o Fred Brooks on human qualities of a great contributor
o Ned Chapin on the HDM notion of module strength
o Jules Deharnais on extension of an HDM theorem
o Al Hevner (panel)
o Susan Gerhart (panel)
o Even-Andre Karlsson (panel)
o David Parnas Keynote: "From Program Functions to Tabular Notation"
o Jesse Poore on statistical science for testing
o Stacy Prowell on black box specifications
o Kirk Sayre on partition testing with usage models
o Fairouz Tchier on extension of HDM theorem for looping structures
o Carmen Trammell on statistical science for testing

Please join us for this exciting 1-day colloquium, the day before the
opening of the ICSE. I look forward to seeing you in L.A.

Tom DeMarco

Details at: http://www.isr.wvu.edu/mills/.
Register at: http://sunset.usc.edu/r1/icse99.