Agenda highlights include:
- A keynote address by Professor William W. Pugh, Professor
of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
- Presentations and posters on latest research on software
design, development, quality assurance, and verification and validation by university
and Fraunhofer researchers.
- A reception hosted by Google.
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Keynote Speaker Dr. William W. Pugh
Dr. William W. Pugh is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland
at College Park. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University
and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science (with a minor in Acting) from Cornell University.
Prof. Pugh is a past recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation and a Packard Fellowship, and invented Skip Lists, a
randomized data structure that is widely taught in undergraduate data structure
courses.
He has also made research contributions in the fields of incremental computation,
implementation of functional and object-oriented languages, the use of partial evaluation
for hard real-time systems, techniques for analyzing and transforming scientific
codes for execution on supercomputers, and a number of issues related to the Java
programming language, including the development of JSR 133 - Java Memory Model and
Thread Specification Revision.
Prof. Pugh consulted for Google in 2000 - 2003 on research that resulted in US Patent
665 8423, on detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files. Prof Pugh's current research
focus is on developing tools to improve software productivity, reliability and education.
Current research projects include FindBugs, a static analysis tool for Java, and
Marmoset, an innovative framework for improving the learning and feedback cycle
for student programming projects.
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