This programme is archived from our 2015 event.

0800

Registration

0900

Keynote Address: Stronger than its weakest link

HIS'15 website tells us "Our lives increasingly depend on the correct functioning of software". But whilst true in itself, software is just one of the links in a system-chain; each needing to be as strong as the others for a satisfactory outcome. History may have branded software as the weakest link, but can that be said today? A system is an entity complete in its context; and judged subjectively by its black-box behaviour. And when faced with its failure it isn't acceptable to claim that "my bit worked"!

Prof. Ian Phillips. CEng, FIMA, FIET, SMIEEE

Principal Staff Engineer at ARM Ltd, UK

Ian is Principal Staff Engineer at ARM Ltd of Cambridge, where his role is to nurture strategic technology and opportunities until their business value can be quantified. A…

Tools & Architectures

0950

A Next Generation Avionics Software Architecture – the ECOA® Programme

Paul Moxon

Lead Software Architect, BAE Systems

1020

Coffee & Exhibition

1100

VISIUMCORE – A High Integrity Processor for Safety Critical Applications

Ivan Ellis

Lead Engineer and Software Specialist, Rolls-Royce Controls and Data Services Limited

1130

Fighting for Software Correctness in a Massively Parallel World

Alastair Donaldson

Senior Lecturer, leader of the Multicore Programming Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

1200

Lunch & Exhibition

1315

Keynote Address: Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety

Investigations into potential causes of Unintended Acceleration (UA) for Toyota vehicles have made news several times in the past few years. Some blame has been placed on floor mats and sticky throttle pedals. But a jury trial verdict found that defects in Toyota's Electronic Throttle Control System software and safety architecture caused a fatal mishap. This talk will outline key events in the still-ongoing Toyota UA story and pull together the technical issues that have been discovered by NASA and other experts.

Prof. Philip Koopman

Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Philip Koopman is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has worked in the areas of wearable computers, software…

Software for Trustworthy Systems

1415

High Integrity and Low Security? Understanding the Tradeoffs between Safety and Cybersecurity

Prof. Chris Johnson

School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

1445

Advances in Practical Techniques for Critical Software Development

Neil White

Head of Engineering, Intelligent Systems Division, Altran UK

1515

Tea & Exhibition

1545

Keynote Address: Open Source Challenges in the Enterprise

Open source has gone from being the domain of academic researchers to the forefront of enterprise development and deployment. All of the most significant industrial waves of the past two decades have had open source at their heart, whether it's Linux for the operating system, Android for mobile or JBoss and Tomcat for application servers. In this talk we'll discuss why open source has been adopted within enterprises for mission critical environments and what reliability and dependability challenges it has faced as a result. We'll also look at the impact open source is having on things such as Internet of Things.

Prof. Mark Little

Vice President Red Hat, CTO of JBoss

Dr. Mark Little leads JBoss technical direction, research and development. Prior to this he was SOA technical development manager, and director of standards. He was chief…

1630

Panel Session: "Open Source: SOUP or Solution?"

Keynote speakers and leading industrial experts will debate whether open source, community-based software can form a reliable component of safety and security-critical systems. Comments, challenges and responses will also be taken from the floor.

1715

Networking/Cocktail Hour & Exhibition

View a selection of slides from last year's HIS 2014 event.

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