Professor Steve Ross-Talbot
Professor Steve Ross-Talbot, European Technology Officer, Global Technology Office, Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd
Professor Steve Ross-Talbot has been involved in computational science since 1975. He has published various papers over the years in topics ranging from query optimization to user interface design to grid to distributed systems and formal methods. Ross-Talbot currently works for Cognizant Technology Solutions as the CEO of a cognizant funded venture called Qualit-E. He has a small team which focuses on the future of software development and outsourcing alongside a larger team of enterprise architects who deliver to customers. Ross-Talbot was a key member of the Open Grid Forum in 2005/2006 focusing on distributed workflow for business processes hosted in a grid – nowadays it is known as BPaaS. Recently (last year) he was invited to be one of the authors of the SOA Manifesto along with luminaries such as Thomas Erl and Grady Booch.
His current interests are centered on using formal methods to build robust distributed systems (which typify cloud based solutions and SOA) and how we innovate collaboratively with our customers. This is why WS-CDL, SAVARA, BPMN2 on the one hand and HoQ and TRIZ on the other are all close to his heart and form the basis for all that he does in both Cognizant and Pi4 Technologies. His aim is simply to contribute to move things forward and deliver software solutions faster with higher quality and reduced costs and so remove us of the linearity in global delivery of software.
