WILLIAM B. FRAKES

Computer Science Department
Virginia Tech
7054 Haycock Rd.
Falls Church, VA 22043
703-538-8497

1992-Present Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech

1992-1998 Director, Computer Science Program, Virginia Tech

1992-Present President, Software Engineering Guild

1999 Distinguished Visiting Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary

2001,1999 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

1991-Present Chair, IEEE TCSE Software Reuse Committee

1989-1992 Manager, Software Reuse Research, Software Productivity Consortium.

1987-1989 Supervisor, Intelligent Systems Research Group, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

1987 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

1988-1989 Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science Department - Columbia University

1986-1987 Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science Department - Rutgers University

1982-1987 Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Education

1982 Ph.D., Information Transfer, Syracuse University

1982 M.S., Statistics, Measurement, Evaluation, Syracuse University

1979 M.S., Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

1978 B.A., Liberal Studies, University of Louisville

Sponsored research

Principal Investigator: "Experimental Methods for Software Engineering", $354,000.00, NASA Grant 426375, March 1994 - September, 1995.

Co-principal Investigator: with Richard Nance and James D. Arthur, "Evaluation of Software Quality: An Empirical Investigation", $187,000.00, DoD grant N06921-89-D-A239-0018, May 1992-April 1993.

Co-principal Investigator: with Richard Nance and James D. Arthur, "Evaluation of Software Quality: An Empirical Investigation", $215,417.00, DoD grant N06921-89-D-A239-029, August 1993-December 1994.

Editorships, curatorships, etc.

Editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Area Editor of the IEEE-CS Software Engineering Online for reuse and domain and product line engineering

Editor, ReNews - An Electronic Reuse Newsletter, affiliated with IEEE TCSE, published since 1992. Synopses of ReNews are also published in the TCSE newsletter.

Guest Editor, Special Issue of Annals of Software Engineering on Reuse, July 1998

Co-Guest Editor, CACM, 40(6) June pp. 24-29, 1997. Introduction to Special Section on Software Quality. Reprinted in the Testing Techniques Newsletter (TTN) ON-LINE EDITION July 1997

Guest Editor (with S. Isoda): Special Issue of IEEE Software on Reuse, September 1994

Co-editor, ACM SIGIR Forum, 1987-1993

Publications