1. Overview

2. Education

3. Career

4. Selected books

5. Notes

6. References

7. External links

Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist.

Overview

Jonathan Bowen is Chairman of Museophile Limited and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods.^[1] He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University,^[2] Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute (New York City), University of Westminster and King's College London,^[3] and a visiting academic at University College London.^[4]

Education

Bowen was born in Oxford, the son of Humphry Bowen,^[5] 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.

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. 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.^[6] Since 2005, Bowen has been an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.^[7] He is also an associate editor on the editorial board for the ACM Computing Surveys journal, covering software engineering and formal methods.^[8] From 2008–9, he was an Associate at Praxis High Integrity Systems, working on a large industrial project using the Z notation.

Bowen's other major interest is the area of online museums. 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).^[9] In the same year he also started the Virtual Museum of Computing. In 2002, he founded Museophile Limited^[10] to help museums, especially online, for example with discussion forums.^[11] He has also worked in industry at Oxford Instruments, Marconi Instruments, Logica, Silicon Graphics, and Altran Praxis.

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. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists in the City of London.

Selected books

• 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}}.^[12]
• 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}}.^[13]
• 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).^[14]
• 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}}.

Notes

References

• Bowen, Jonathan Peter. Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who, 18th edition, 2001.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926103223/http://www.nmpft.org.uk/film/webcon05/speakers.asp#Bowen H-museum information]
• Museums and the Web conference information
• {{webarchive | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926103223/http://www.nmpft.org.uk/film/webcon05/speakers.asp#Bowen |date=26 September 2006 |title=Film on the Web conference information }}
• International Center for Scientific Research information

External links

• Personal website
• LSBU home page
• {{DBLP|name=Jonathan P. Bowen}}
• {{GoogleScholar|L-7d2uUAAAAJ}}

• [https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2311901225 Jonathan P. Bowen] on Microsoft Academic
• {{MathGenealogy|154523}}

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