David
Notkin
 
My educational and research interests are in software engineering, with a particular focus in software evolution: understanding why software is so hard and expensive to change, and in turn reducing those difficulties and costs.

Harold: You sure have a way with people.  Maude: Well, they're my species! [Harold and Maude, 1971]
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Job  I've been on the faculty at the University of Washington in the Computer Science & Engineering since 1984, currently serving as Professor and Bradley Chair.  I previously served as department chair (2001-06).  Details►

Education  I received my Sc.B. from Brown University (1977) and my Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1984).  Details►

Research  I've worked on syntax-directed editing environments, heterogeneous operating systems, parallel programming systems, software engineering tools and environments, software requirements verification, software design, and more.  Details and publications►

Awards  I received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988), was named an ACM Fellow (1998) and an IEEE Fellow (2008) and received the University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award (2000).  Details►

Professional  I served as chair of ACM SIGSOFT (1997-2001), as program chair of the 1993 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, as program co-chair of the 1995 International Conference on Software Engineering, and have been Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology since 2007.  I'm a member of the board of the CRA, and I am the past co-chair of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance.  Details►

Sabbaticals  I've spent my sabbaticals at IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Osaka University, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and most recently at Lund University.   Our sabbatical travelogues receive more hits than my publications.  Details►

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Contact  +1.206.685.3798 • +1.206.543.2969 FAX • notkin at cs.washington.edu • CSE 542 • notkin at yahoo.com (personal email)
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