Author Description

In recognition of the 25th Anniversary of IBM Centre for Advanced Studies(CAS) and its conference CASCON, we solicited short chapters for a book to document and highlight the importance and influence of CAS within IBM, academia, and Canada.Through the chapters in this book, readers can trace the history of CAS and read stories of earlyCASCON experiences and large-scale CAS projects. The breadth of perspectives in this book articulates the full scope and influence of CAS and CASCON, describing significant research resulting from CAS collaborations and documenting the impact of CAS and CASCON on individuals and institutions. The personal accounts pay tribute to the significant and lasting effect of CAS and demonstrate a passion for an organization that is rare and extraordinary. There are stories of friendships and relationships that have been built and sustained over the past 25 years-because of CAS. There are descriptions of significant innovations and influential outcomes that resulted from CAS projects. We set out to document the impact of CAS and CASCON. This book does that and much more. Through 28 high-quality chapters, the authors have illustrated how this one organization initiated within IBM Canada has changed the IBM research and development landscape, the Canadian computer science and software engineering communities, the Canadian software industry, and the lives of the people in this amazing CAS ecosystem.