What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based Barr Group has Appointed Michael Barr as Chief Technical Officer
About the Company
Barr Group helps companies improve the safety and security of the electronics and software embedded in their products. The company's engineers include internationally-known experts in the design of safe and secure computers who provide independent training and consulting services to companies in many industries. From pacemakers to cars, Barr Group helps make the computers inside everything safer and more secure.
About the Person
Michael Barr is a former adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering with more than two decades of software design and implementation experience. Internationally recognized as an expert in the field of embedded software process and architecture, Barr has been admitted as a testifying expert witness in U.S. and Canadian court cases involving issues of reverse engineering (including DMCA), interception of encrypted signals (Federal Communications Act), patent infringement, theft of copyrighted source code (including trade secrets issues), and product liability. Barr is also the author of three books and more than seventy articles and papers on embedded software design. For three and a half years Barr served as editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine. In addition, Barr has served as a member of the advisory board, conference chair, and track chair for various international Embedded Systems Conferences. Software he wrote has powered millions of products. Barr holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and has lectured in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, from which he also earned an MBA as well as the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University.
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