[Colloq] Talk **Friday, November 14** 129 Hurtig Hall, 2:00pm

[Rachel Bates]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium

Presents
Ian Holland
Vice President of Systems Engineering and
Architecture at Kronos

  who will speak on:

Computer Science in Perspective
Thoughts from a PhD alumnus examining the motives and opportunities for
computer scientists and information systems professionals in 2003

Friday, November 14, 2003
2:00pm
129 Hurtig Hall


ABSTRACT
As the computer industry continues to suffer from the hangover of the “dot
bomb era”, corporate IT spending falls off dramatically and news stories
about technology jobs moving overseas are common, how should computing
professionals view their work and their work environment?  This talk will
examine the subjective perspective of one person and the lessons he learned
from fashionable but unsuccessful projects to unfashionable but very
successful projects.  It will review some of the important buzzwords driving
technology development today and present some of the non-technical skills
required of successful technologists.

BIO
Ian M. Holland is the Vice President of Systems Engineering and Architecture
at Kronos, a software development company headquartered in Chelmsford MA.
Prior to joining Kronos, he worked for IBM, in Florida and Texas, as a
software systems designer and architect in the areas of operating systems
and network computing.
Dr. Holland received his Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the College of  Computer
Science at Northeastern University under Professor Karl Lieberherr.  He has
taught several nationally televised courses through Network Northeastern and
National Technological University, as well as teaching graduate courses at
Northeastern’s College of Computer Science from time to time