Karl Reed

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Karl Reed is a pioneer of software engineering education in Australia, and is recognised as national spokesperson on industry policy, advising State and Federal Governments both formally and informally. Associate Professor Reed held number of different positions in different institutions including Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Business at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Associate Professor Reed is a Fellow and an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Computer Society, past chairman of the Victorian branch and Director of its Computer Systems and Software Engineering Board. He has also a been a Distinguished Business Associate at Swinburne University of Technology. He has been consultant editor to Australasian Computer World since 1978, where he published regular column. He was a Governor of the IEEE-Computer Society for the statutory limit of two terms (1997-2000,2000-2002), and is currently the Chair of the IEEE-CS’ Technical Council on Software Engineering (2000-2002,2002-2004), which is responsible for some 26 international conferences, including the International Conference on Software Engineering (Jointly with ACM-SIGSOFT).

From 1989 to 1997, he was the Director of the Amdahl Australian Intelligent Tool Programme, a A$1.8m project investigating the integration of Hypertext and CASE. He is currently a Honorary Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, and his 2002 sabbatical year was spent as a Visiting Professor at Bond University in Queensland, and as a Visiting Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institut for Experimentelles Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is currently the General Chair for the Asian Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2002, and has served on the program committees of a range of national and international conferences including the International conference on Software Engineering (1989,2000,2001)