I am a member of the Education
Council of the ACM.
Representing ACM, I was Co-Chair of the SE2004
Steering Committee. This committee directed an
international effort to produce curriculum guidelines for software
engineering undergraduate degree programs. (Clink on the SE2004
link to access the curriculum volume produced by this project.)
I remain involved in assessing the use and impact of the SE2004 volume.
A PowerPoint presentation about the computing curricula guidelines is
available here.
Computing Curricula 2005: The
Overview Report, A Volume in the Computing Curricula Series,
with Russell Shackelford, Andrew McGettrick, Robert Sloan, Heikki Topi,
Gordon Davies, Reza Kamali, James Cross, John Impagliazzo, Barry
Lunt. The Association for Computing Machinery, The Association
for Information Systems, and IEEE Computer Society. September 2005.
Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum
Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering,
A Volume in the Computing Curricula Series, Co-chair of the SE2004
Steering Committee Ann Sobel. Other primary authors: Timothy C.
Lethbridge, Jorge L. Diaz Herrera and Thomas B. Hilburn. IEEE
Computer Society and The Association for Computing Machinery, August ,
2004.
Joanne M. Atlee, Richard LeBlanc, Timothy Lethbridge, Ann Sobel and J.
Barrie Thompson, “Software Engineering 2004: ACM/IEEE-CS guidelines for
undergraduate programs in software engineering”, Proc. of the 27th Int.
Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), St. Louis, MO, May 2005, pp,
623-624.
Ellen Francine Barbosa, Richard LeBlanc, Jose Carlos Maldonado,
and Mark Guzdial, “Introducing Testing Practices into an
Objects and Design Course”, Proc. of
the 16th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering Education and Training
(CSEET 2003), Madrid, Spain, March 2003.
D. Mays and R. LeBlanc, “The CycleFree Methodology: A Simple
Approach to Building Reliable, Robust, Real-Time Systems,” Proc. of the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE 2002), Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
Biographical Information
Prior to my retirement in March 2005, I was the Undergraduate Program
Director for the College of Computing for a little over a
year. From August 2000 through December 2003, I spent most
of my time serving as Director of Education for Yamacraw, an economic
development initiative of the State of Georgia. While with Yamacraw, I
also played a major role in the planning for the Technology Square
Research Building. Before beginning my appointment with Yamacraw,
I
served as Associate Dean of the College of Computing for eight
years.
I began my career as a faculty member at Georgia Tech in 1978, serving
for
three years in the late 1980’s as Acting Associate Director of the
School of Information and Computer Science, the predecessor of the
College of Computing.
I am the co-author of popular textbooks on compiler construction, Crafting a Compiler and Crafting a Compiler with C.
I have served the professional community as a Member of the Editorial
Board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (1991-1997) and an
Associate Editor of ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems
(1991-1994). I was Chair of the ACM Education Board from 1996 to
1998
and served as Vice Chair of this Board from 1998-2002.
I have served several times as a Computer Science Team Chair for the
Computing
Accreditation Commission of ABET. I
have also served as a Software Engineering Program Evaluator for ABET's
Engineering Accreditation Commission.
I received the B.S. degree in physics from Louisiana
State University in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer
sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1974 and 1977,
respectively.