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Zalewski, Janusz
Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, Florida
 
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Dr. Janusz Zalewski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Florida Gulf Coast University. Previously, he was on faculty in software engineering programs at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, and at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in Daytona Beach. Before taking a university position, he worked for various nuclear research institutions, including the Superconducting Super Collider Lab in Dallas, Texas, where he was a member of the Data Acquisition Group, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he worked for the Computer Safety and Reliability Center. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. His major areas of research interests include: safety-critical computer systems, real-time multiprocessor and distributed systems, real-time software architectures, and software engineering education.

He has published over 100 research papers and delivered several keynote speeches and invited talks at various professional conferences, including Assessment of Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems at the IFAC Workshop on Programmable Devices and Systems, Ostrava, Czech Republic (2003), Safety of Computer Control Systems: Challenges and Results in Software Development at the IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control, in Hong Kong, P.R. of China (2001), and Real-Time Software Architectures and Design Patterns: Fundamental Concepts and Their Consequences at the 24th IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real-Time Programming, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (1999). His most recent tutorial, Software Development for Real-Time Safety-Critical Applications, was delivered at the 28th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop, in December 2003.

Zalewski received an MS in electronic engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science from Warsaw University of Technology, in Poland, in 1973 and 1979, respectively. He was a Chairman of the IFIP Working Group 5.4 on Industrial Software Quality and of an IFAC Technical Committee on Safety of Computer Control Systems. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He currently serves on editorial boards of Annual Reviews in Control (a publication of IFAC) and Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, and previously served on editorial boards for Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Computer, and IEEE Concurrency.

 
 
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   The book of R: a first course in programming and statistics
Davies T., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2015. 432 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593276-51-5), Reviews: (2 of 2)

I have always been fascinated by statistics, going back to the time at a summer Boy Scout camp when I was so bored with the physical activities that I started reading a little booklet, which I found just removed from the library. It wa...

May 10 2017  
   Cyber-physical attacks: a growing invisible threat
Loukas G., Butterworth-Heinemann, Newton, MA, 2015. 270 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128012-90-1), Reviews: (2 of 2)

A cyberphysical system is generally considered to be an embedded system with network connectivity. Embedded systems are defined in this book, after Peter Marwedel [1], as “information processing systems embedded into a larger...

Feb 19 2016  
   The practice of network security monitoring: understanding incident detection and response
Bejtlich R., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2013. 376 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593275-09-9)

I reached for this book because I am one of those readers who needs what it offers. That is, I wanted to learn about network monitoring to improve its security. As the author advises on several occasions, the book is aimed at those pro...

Feb 10 2014  
   The hands-on XBee lab manual: experiments that teach you XBee wirelesss communications
Titus J., Newnes, Newton, MA, 2012. 324 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123914-04-0)

There are essentially two ways to review this book. Since it is a lab manual, with detailed instructions on how to construct the respective experiments, one can review it while experimenting with the actual equipment. Or one could read...

Mar 6 2013  
   Embedded systems security: practical methods for safe and secure software and systems development
Kleidermacher D., Kleidermacher M., Newnes, Newton, MA, 2012. 416 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123868-86-2)

Security is defined in this book as “the ability of an entity to protect resources for which it bears protection responsibility.” This definition is as good as any other, although I would put more emphasis on the de...

Dec 28 2012  
   The tangled Web: a guide to securing modern Web applications
Zalewski M., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2011. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593273-88-0)

The book comprises three parts. From the table of contents, it seems that Part 1, “Anatomy of the Web,” discusses things everyone knows about: uniform resource locators (URLs) (chapter 2), hypertext transfer protoco...

Mar 30 2012  
   Real-time systems: design principles for distributed embedded applications (2nd ed.)
Kopetz H., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 394 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-441982-36-0)

Both the theory and practice of real-time systems have significantly evolved to the extent that 15 years in the development of a discipline looks like an era. This situation is reflected in this revised edition (the first edition was p...

Jan 18 2012  
   Practical packet analysis: using Wireshark to solve real-world network problems (2nd ed.)
Sanders C., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2011. 280 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593272-66-1)

This edition of the book, a significant extension of the first one [1], comprises two intertwined parts. The first covers fundamentals of computer networking and network protocols. It consists of two introductory chapters on network ba...

Dec 27 2011  
   Design of multithreaded software: the entity-life modeling approach
Sandén B., Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, Hoboken, NJ, 2011. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-470876-59-6)

The book deals with designing reactive systems using the entity-life modeling (ELM) approach, which the author invented and pursued. His first major publications on ELM appeared in 1989, in Communications of the ACM; earlier one...

Sep 20 2011  
   Model driven architecture and ontology development
Gašaević D., Djurić D., Devedžić V., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2006. 312 pp.  Type: Book (9783540321804), Reviews: (3 of 3)

Model-driven development (MDD) and model-driven architecture (MDA) are terms one has to deal with when developing software for many modern applications, like those running in real time. They are relatively well known to software engine...

Jan 23 2007  
 
 
 
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