Biography:Jonathan Bowen

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Jonathan P. Bowen

FBCS FRSA
Jonathan Bowen photograph.jpg
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Oxford, England
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Known forFormal methods, Z notation, Virtual Library museums pages, Virtual Museum of Computing
AwardsIEE Charles Babbage Premium (1994)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Information Technology, Museum informatics
InstitutionsMuseophile Limited, Birmingham City University, London South Bank University, University of Reading, University of Oxford, Imperial College, London
Websitewww.jpbowen.com

Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods.[2] Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University,[3] Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute (New York City), University of Westminster and King's College London,[4] and a visiting academic at University College London.[5]

Early life and education

Bowen was born in Oxford, the son of Humphry Bowen,[6] and was educated at the Dragon School, Bryanston School, prior to his matriculation at University College, Oxford (Oxford University) where he received the MA degree in Engineering Science.[6]

Career

Bowen later worked at Imperial College, London, the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science), the University of Reading, and London South Bank University. His early work was on formal methods in general, and later the Z notation in particular.[7] He was Chair of the Z User Group from the early 1990s until 2011. In 2002, Bowen was elected Chair of the British Computer Society FACS Specialist Group on Formal Aspects of Computing Science.[8] Since 2005, Bowen has been an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.[9] He is also an associate editor on the editorial board for the ACM Computing Surveys journal, covering software engineering and formal methods.[10] From 2008–9, he was an Associate at Praxis High Integrity Systems, working on a large industrial project using the Z notation.[11]

Bowen's other major interest is the area of online museums.[12][13] In 1994, he founded the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), an online museums directory that was soon adopted by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[14][15] In the same year he also started the Virtual Museum of Computing. In 2002, he founded Museophile Limited[16] to help museums, especially online, for example with discussion forums.[17] He has also worked in industry at Oxford Instruments, Marconi Instruments, Logica, Silicon Graphics, and Altran Praxis.[18]

Bowen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2002 and of the British Computer Society (BCS) in 2004.[18] He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a Freeman of the City of London.[19]

Selected books

Jonathan Bowen has written and edited a number of books, including:[20]

  • Bowen, J.P., editor, Towards Verified Systems. Elsevier Science, Real-Time Safety Critical Systems series, volume 2, 1994. ISBN:0-444-89901-4.
  • Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. ISBN:0-13-366949-1.[21]
  • Bowen, J.P., Formal Specification and Documentation using Z: A Case Study Approach. International Thomson Computer Press, International Thomson Publishing, 1996. ISBN:1-85032-230-9.[22]
  • Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN:3-540-76226-4.
  • Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN:1-85233-640-4.
  • Hierons, R., Bowen, J.P., and Harman, M., editors, Formal Methods and Testing. Springer-Verlag, LNCS, Volume 4949, 2008. ISBN:978-3-540-78916-1.
  • Börger, E., Butler, M., Bowen, J.P., and Boca, P., editors, Abstract State Machines, B and Z. Springer-Verlag, LNCS, Volume 5238, 2008. ISBN:978-3-540-87602-1.
  • Boca, P.P., Bowen, J.P., and Siddiqi, J.I., editors, Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Directions. Springer, 2010. ISBN:978-1-84882-735-6, e-ISBN:978-1-84882-736-3, doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-736-3.
  • Bowen, J.P., Keene, S., and Ng, K., editors, Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing, Springer, 2013. ISBN:978-1-4471-5406-8.
  • Copeland, J., Bowen, J.P., Sprevak, M., Wilson, R., et al., The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN:978-0198747826 (hardcover), ISBN:978-0198747833 (paperback).[23]
  • Hinchey, M.G., Bowen, J.P., Olderog, E.-R., editors, Provably Correct Systems. Springer International Publishing, NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering series, 2017. ISBN:978-3-319-48627-7, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48628-4.
  • Giannini, T. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Springer Series on Cultural Computing, Springer, 2019. ISBN:978-3-319-97456-9, e-ISBN:978-3-319-97457-6, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Charles Babbage Premium Award winners". Software Engineering Journal 10 (1): 2. 1995. doi:10.1049/sej.1995.0001. 
  2. ↑ "Centre for Applied Formal Methods". http://www.cafm.lsbu.ac.uk/. 
  3. ↑ "Jonathan Bowen". Birmingham City University. 2015. http://www.bcu.ac.uk/computing/about-us/our-staff/jonathan-bowen. 
  4. ↑ "CREST members". http://crest.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/members.php?itemid=2. 
  5. ↑ "Jonathan Bowen home page". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Bowen/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Spokes Symonds, Ann (1997). "Families: The Bowens". The Changing Faces of North Oxford: Book One. Robert Boyd Publications. pp. 81–83. ISBN 978-1-899536-25-2. 
  7. ↑ "Jonathan Bowen". International Center for Scientific Research. 2004-08-03. http://www.cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=31. 
  8. ↑ "Committee and Contact Details". BCS-FACS. UK: BCS. http://www.bcs.org/category/12471. 
  9. ↑ "Editorial Board". Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer. https://www.springer.com/uk/home/computer/programming?SGWID=3-40007-70-36204355-detailsPage=journal%7ceditorialBoard. 
  10. ↑ "Editorial board". ACM Computing Surveys. Association for Computing Machinery. http://csur.acm.org/editorial.cfm. 
  11. ↑ High-integrity system specification and design. J. P. Bowen, Michael G. Hinchey. London: Springer. 1999. ISBN 3-540-76226-4. OCLC 40267699. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40267699. 
  12. ↑ "Member of H-MUSEUM Advisory Board: Prof. Jonathan Bowen". 2003-10-23. https://www.h-net.org/~museum/bowen.html. 
  13. ↑ "Speaker Biography: Jonathan Bowen". Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010). 2010. https://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/bios/au_3817.html. 
  14. ↑ "Virtual Library museums pages". International Council of Museums. http://archives.icom.museum/vlmp/. 
  15. ↑ "Film on the Web Conference 2005". The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. 2005. http://www.nmpft.org.uk/film/webcon05/speakers.asp#Bowen. 
  16. ↑ "Museophile Limited". UK. http://www.museophile.com/. 
  17. ↑ Pratty, Jon (26 September 2003). "Information about our newsfeed". http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/etc/formuseums/TXT18198_gfx_en.html. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Speaker Biography: Jonathan Bowen". British Computer Society, Berkshire. 2019. https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2019/november/alan-turing-the-founder-of-computer-science-bcs-berkshire/. 
  19. ↑ "Jonathan Bowen" (in en-US). Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series. 2004. https://istcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/jonathan-bowen/. 
  20. ↑ "Books By Jonathan Bowen". Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Bowen/e/B0848DGZ72. 
  21. ↑ Fenton, Norman (13 September 1996). "Critical burden of being correct". Times Higher Education Supplement. 
  22. ↑ Johnson, Chris (1996). "Book Review – Formal Specification and Documentation using Z: A Case Study Approach". The Computer Journal 39 (7): 643. doi:10.1093/comjnl/39.7.643-a. 
  23. ↑ Robinson, Andrew (4 January 2017). "The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331072-700-the-turing-guide-last-words-on-an-enigmatic-codebreaker/. 
  24. ↑ Koslow, Jennifer (4 September 2019). "Book Review – Museums and digital culture: new perspectives and research". Museum Management and Curatorship 34 (5): 537–539. doi:10.1080/09647775.2019.1661098. 

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