Ph.D. Computer Science · Retired
Research
Focused on requirements methods and tools for getting the appropriate software solution to the right human problem. Prominent themes within this work are FOSS licenses and heterogeneously-licensed systems, the interactions between law and requirements, privacy, effective use of scenarios and narrative requirements, bidirectional connection between stakeholder requirements and later development phases, empirical studies and requirements research, and how stakeholders understand requirements (or fail to).
Background
- Project Scientist Institute for Software Research University of California, Irvine
- Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Georgetown University
- Assistant Professor Informatics University of Irvine, California
- Ph.D. Computer Science North Carolina State University (Annie I. Antón)
- Programmer, Team Lead, Manager IBM, Data General, other companies (~10 years)
- Computer Scientist Software Cost Reduction (A-7) project Naval Research Laboratory
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M.S.
Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(David L. Parnas)
[My first Software Engineering course was team-taught by Brooks and Parnas] - B.A. magna cum laude Physics University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professional activity
- ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, and ΦΒΚ.
- Program committee member for the principal Requirements Engineering conferences (RE, REFSQ, WER).
- Regular reviewer for TSE, TOSEM, REJ, and other journals.
Personal summary
Active runner, change ringer, former ballroom dance competitor. Married to a charming lawyer. Lived two years in St-Jeannet, France. Raised elder daughter from 6 months to 6 years, and raising younger daughter now.
- thomas · alspaugh @ acm · org
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