Tuesday, February 22, 2006
Bill Aspray
Globalization and the Offshore Outsourcing
of Software Services
Abstract
The talk will present findings from an international
study
organized by the computing professional society ACM. Topics will include
changes in the geography of the software industry, enablers of offshoring,
reasons why companies send work to other countries, the economics of
offshoring, globalization of research, security and intellectual property
risks, and educational and policy responses.
Biography: William Aspray is the Rudy Professor of Informatics at Indiana
University, Bloomington. His research involves the politics and history of
computing and Internet technologies. He has formerly held senior management
positions in Computing Research Association, the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, and the Charles Babbage Institute; and faculty
positions at Harvard, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and Williams.
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