Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan P. Bowen

Born	1956 Oxford, England
Residence	Oxfordshire
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Fields	Computer science, Information Technology, Museum informatics
Institutions	Museophile Limited, London South Bank University, University of Westminster
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Known for	Formal methods, Z notation, Virtual Library museums pages

Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA (born 1956) is a British computer scientist. He is Chairman of Museophile Limited, an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University where he has headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods,^[1] and a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster. Formerly he was a Visiting Professor at King's College London^[2] and a visiting academic at University College London.^[3]

Education

Bowen was born in Oxford, the son of Humphry Bowen,^[4] 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.

Bowen later worked at Imperial College, London, the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, and the University of Reading. 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.^[5] 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] From 2008–09, 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).^[8] In the same year he also started the Virtual Museum of Computing.^[9] In 2002, he founded Museophile Limited^[10]^[11] to help museums, especially online, for example with discussion forums.^[12]

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.
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.
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.

Persondata
Name	Bowen, Jonathan P.
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Short description	British computer scientist, information technologist
Date of birth	1956
Place of birth	Oxford, England
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