Speech Keynote 1:  Chair Keynote Speech 2:  Panelists Closing Panel:
	Kouichi Kishida  (SRA, Japan)

Kouichi Kishida is one of the Founder and the Technical Director of
Software Research Associates, Inc., one of the oldest independent
software houses in Japan.  He started his long career of computing in
early 1960s after studied astronomy at University of Tokyo.

He has been playing a leading role of transferring new technologies into
Japanese software industry, such as "structured technique" in 1970s,
"Unix" in 1980s, and "process" in 1990s.

He is a founding member of Japan Unix Society (JUS) and Software
Engineers Association (SEA). He is now serving as the secretary general
of SEA.

Internationally, he is known as the organizer of Software Designers
Associates Project (1987-92) and a series of International CASE Symposia
in China (since 1991 and since 1994 sponsored with UNU/IIST).

He also took a program co-chair with Bob Balzer at 9th ICSE (Monterey, 1987)
and gave keynote speech at 10th ICSE (Singapore, 1988). 

His major interests are conceptual models of SDEs and philosophical
foundation of software engineering.

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Kouichi Kishida
   Technical Director,
   Software Research Associates, Inc.

Education:
   Studied astronomy at Tokyo University (1955~61)

Job Career
   Free-lance Programmer (1969~61)
   Oki Business Machine Co. (1961~66)
   Computer Systems Co. (1967)
   Software Research Associates, Inc. (1967~)

Professional Activities (Domestic):
   Chair, Technical Committee, Japan Software Industry Association (1979~84)
   President, Japan Unix Society (1983~85)
   Chair, Software Engineers Association (1987~89)
   Vice-Chair, Software Engineers Association (1985~87, 1989~93)
   Secretary General, Software Engineers Association (1993~)
   Chair, Software Maintenance Study Group (1991~)

Professional Activities (International):
   Managing Director, Software Designers Associates Project (1987~92)
   Program Co-Chair, 9th International Conference on Software Engineering
                                (Monterey, USA, 1987)
   Keynote Speaker, 10th International Conference on Software Engineering
                                (Singapore, 1988)
   General Co-Chair, 1st China-Japan Software Symposium
                                (Shanghai, China, 1988)
   General Chair, 1st International Symposium on Future Software Environment
                                (Kyoto, Japan, 1989)
   Advisor, Shanghai Development Center of Computer Software Technology
                                (Shanghai, China, 1989~)
   Program Co-Chair, Urmuqi International CASE Symposium
                                (Urmuqi, China, 1992)
   Professor-Emeritus, Northwest University
                                (Xi'an, China. 1992~)
   Chair, Workshop on Asian Approaches to Software Engineering
                                (Seattle, USA, 1995)