Some links for people interested in software engineering from both academic and corporate sides of the story ...

Professional associations

International

• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• AITO - Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets
• IPMA - International Project Management Association

Local (Czech)

• SPIS - Association for Information Society
• SPŘ - Společnost pro Projektové Řízení (part of IPMA)

Conferences

Renowned academic conferences on efficient software development

• ECOOP - European Conference on Object Oriented Programming
• OOPSLA - Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications
• EDOC - Enterprise Distributed Programming Conference
• ICSE - International Conference on Software Engineering
• MoDELS - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
• IPDPS - IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
• SOFSEM - Software Seminar ;-)

Corporate conferences

• TechEd - Worldwide developer forum held by Microsoft
• TechEd Europe - European developer forum held by Microsoft
• IDF - Intel Developer Forum

Comput[er|ing] science legends

• Ada Augusta Byron, countess of Lovelace - considered to be the mother of programming. 19th century.
• Alan Turing - considered to be the father of theoretical computer science, in particular computability, alghorithm complexity and artificial intelligence. A prize that bears his name - A.M. Turing Award - is considered to be the "Nobel prize of computer science".
• Donald Ervin Knuth - the author of The Art of Computer Programming, creator of the TeX typesetting system and the leading theoretical computer scientist.
• Niklaus Wirth - the founder of structural programming, creator of many programming languages, including Pascal and Oberon.
• Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl - the founders of object oriented programming and the first OO-language Simula 67. The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded every year for the best achievement in object oriented programming.
• Trygve M. H. Reenskaug - a leading software engineering visionary in object-oriented development, distributed systems and modelling; founder of Model-View-Controller design pattern.
• Antonín Svoboda - the pioneer of cybernetics and computer science in former Czechoslovakia and USA in the half of 20th century. The author of one the firsts books on computers - Computing Mechanisms and Linkages (1946)
• Jiří Zlatuška - a prominent Czech theoretical computer scientist and the most active promoter of information society in the Czech Republic today.

My research papers

Published and/or refereed

• Inheritance of SOFA Components - Master Thesis, (2002)
• Inheritance In Architecture Description Langauges - published in Reviewed section of Proceedings of the Week of Doctoral Students 2003 conference (WDS 2003), Matfyzpress, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003, pp.124-131, Jun 2003
• Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on Mechanisms for Specialization, Generalization and Inheritance (MASPEGHI 2004) - Ph. Lahire, G. Arévalo, H. Astudillo, A.P. Black, E. Ernst, M. Huchard, T. Oplustil, M. Sakkinen, P. Valtchev - published in Object-Oriented Technology - ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader, Springer 2005 (LNCS 3344), pp 101 – 117