Workshops by Prof. David West

Prof. David West

Natural Systems Design and Development

Two day workshop with Prof. David West

For fifty years we have focused on the ‘Artificial’ — computing devices and Turing Machine grounded software. Mathematics, Logic and Engineering have formed our ontology. This perspective has led to major accomplishments and equally major failures (the latter increasingly outnumbering the former)...
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Techniques For Complex Domains

Two day workshop with Prof. David West

About the workshop Complexity changes everything. For fifty plus years software development has used abstraction and simplification to define domains and problems that were amenable to formal, engineering, solutions. The engineering approach with its artificial domains must give way to an und...
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About Prof. David West

David West has enjoyed a dual, parallel, career as a professional software developer and academic. His professional career started in 1968 (same year the discipline of Software Engineering was invented) as a COBOL and Assembler programmer. He has held almost every job title in the profession since then: Analyst, Architect, and even CIO.

As an academic he has created several innovative programs; introducing object-oriented development to the world’s largest software engineering program to an award winning software apprenticeship program.

His undergraduate education was in Asian Philosophy — his graduate education included an MS in Computer Science, MA in Cultural Anthropology, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science.

He is the author of Object Thinking (2006) and co-author with Rebecca Rikner of Design Thinking (2018). He has also published more than fifty papers on topics ranging from object-orientation to Agile, Patterns, Design, and Complexity.

Prof. David West

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