Bertrand Meyer#
| Membership Number: | 3037 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present, Professor of Software Engineering and Provost, Constructor Institute of Technology, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- 2001,10 - 2016, Professor and and head (2004-2006) of the Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich, Computer Science Department
- 2001 - present Chief Architect, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
- 2009 - present president, IFIP TC2 committee (software)
- 1989 - present conference series chair, TOOLS conferences (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems)
- 2002 - 2009 Publisher, Journal of Object Technology
- 2005 - present President, Informatics Europe (association of European Computer Science Departments)
- 2004 - 2006 Associate chair (2003-2004) then chair (2004-2006) of the Computer Science department, ETH Zurich
- 1998 - 2003 Professor (adjunct), Monash University, Australia
- 1985 - 2001 President and CEO, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
- 1985 company founder, Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara (California), USA
- 1983 - 1986 Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Computer Science Department.
- 1974 - 1983 Research Engineer, then head of software support division, Electricité de France (French National Power Company), R&D
Fields of Scholarship
- Software testing
- Theory of programming
- Software verification
- Concurrent and parallel programming
- Software specification and formal methods of software development
- Software development environments
- Object-oriented programming, object technology
- Programming languages
- Computer science education
Honours and Awards
- 2011 ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2010 Harlan Mills prize of the IEEE (“For practical and fundamental contributions to object-oriented software engineering”)
- 2009 ACM Fellow
- 2009 Elected chair of IFIP TC2 committee (software)
- 2007 ACM Software System award
- 2006 Doctorate Honoris Causa, State Technical University ITMO of Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 2005 Senior Dahl-Nygaard prize for object technology in recognition of the design of Eiffel
- 2004-2010 Switzerland representative to IFIP TC2
- 1998 Jolt Award (for “Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition”)
- 1991 Election as a member of the Académie des Technologies (French Academy of Technology, was “Comité des Applications de l’Académie des Sciences” until 2001)
