2d National Software Summit

With the theme: "Software: The Critical Infrastructure Within the
Critical Infrastructures!", the 2d National Software Summit
(NSS2) will convene in Washington, D.C., May 10-12 at the J.W. Marriott
hotel.  NSS2 will gather a select group of senior
software and technology leaders from industry, academia and government
to address growing concerns over the role of
software and the software industry in our nation today.

As the theme of NSS2 indicates, software underpins virtually all of the
nation's critical infrastructures, but policy on this
critical part of our economy is ill defined.  Issues of major concern
that will be addressed at the conference include the
trustworthiness of software, the education and qualifications of the
software workforce, the adequacy of current software
research and development, the impacts of outsourcing, and the
competitiveness and stability of the nation's software industry.

NSS2 is being hosted by the Center for National Software Studies in
cooperation with the Council on Competitiveness, the
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), the Software
Productivity Consortium (SPC), the Northern Virginia
Technology Council (NVTC), and the IEEE Reliability Society.
Participating universities include George Mason University,
Carnegie Mellon University, George Washington University, and the Naval
Postgraduate School.

An exceptional group of speakers will participate in the summit,
including:

· Hon. Phillip Bond, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology;
· Deborah Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness;
· Amit Yoran, Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS);
· Dr. Arthur Pyster, Deputy CIO of the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA)
· Dr. Alan Merten, president of George Mason University;
· John Chen, Chairman & CEO of Sybase, Inc.;
· Dr. William Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering
· Harris Miller, president of the ITAA;
· Dr. Jeffrey Voas, Chief Scientist, Cigital;
· Prof. Bill Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University;
· Jim Kane, CEO of the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC);
· Dr. Susan Zevin, Director of the NIST Information Technology
Laboratory;
· Watts Humphrey, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Fellow;
· Sudhakar Shenoy, Chmn & CEO, IMC and Chairman, NVTC;
· Dr. Alan Salisbury, president of the Center for National Software
Studies;

Full details of the summit, including the agenda and registration
information, are available at www.cnsoftware.org/nss2.