David Notkin: Home Page

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.

I've been on the faculty at the University of Washington in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering since 1984, currently serving as the Bradley Chair. I previously served as department chair (2001-06). I received my Sc.B. from Brown University (1977), and my Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1984). I received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988), was named an ACM Fellow (1998), and received the University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award (2000). I've spent my sabbaticals at IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Osaka University, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I served as chair of ACM SIGSOFT (1997-2001), as program chair of the 1993 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and as program co-chair of the 1995 International Conference on Software Engineering. I'm a member of the board of the CRA, and I am co-chair of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance.

New sabbatical travelblog!
NotkinFest: see the May 11th 2006 links on our 2005-06 history page!
I don't usually post pictures of my kids, but here's my son Akiva holding a double-play ball that Mike Cameron hit in the Toronto Blue Jays vs. Seattle Mariners game on August 9, 2003.
Don't miss the hit by the "smashing Notkins" from the ACM CSE BBQ on March 24, 2002.