Biography:Laurie Williams (software engineer)
Laurie Williams is an American software engineer known for her writings on pair programming and agile software development. She is a distinguished professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, and interim head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.[1]
Education and career
Williams graduated from Lehigh University in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. After earning an M.B.A. from Duke University in 1990, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 2000. Her dissertation, The Collaborative Software Process, was supervised by Robert R. Kessler.[2]
She joined the North Carolina State University in 2000, and was named a distinguished professor in 2018.[1]
Books
With Robert R. Kessler, Williams is the author of the book Pair Programming Illuminated (Addison-Wesley, 2002).[3] With Michele Marchesi, Giancarlo Succi, and James Donovan Wells, she is an author of Extreme Programming Perspectives (Addison-Wesley, 2003).[4]
Recognition
In 2009, Williams became one of the two inaugural winners of the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, for her work on pair programming in computer science education.[5] In 2018, Williams was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to reliable and secure software engineering".[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Heath, Darsee (June 8, 2018), "Williams named Distinguished Professor", College of Engineering News (North Carolina State University), https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/2018/06/08/williams-named-distinguished-professor/, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ↑ Curriculum vitae, https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/vita.pdf, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ↑ Reviews of Pair Programming Illuminated:
- Ashbacher, Charles (November–December 2002), Journal of Object Technology, 5 (1 ed.), pp. 179–180, https://www.jot.fm/books/review3.pdf
- Ghai, Ajit (December 2004), "Review", Software Quality Professional 7 (1): 43–44, https://www.proquest.com/openview/2152cb9eac32dda1716da17839b544fe/1
- ↑ Review of Extreme Programming Perspectives:
- Walker, David (December 2003), "Review", Software Quality Professional 6 (1): 46–47, https://www.proquest.com/openview/b7767dae2a77aaf701ec4f5ee40814c7/1
- ↑ "Williams Receives Inaugural ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award", CSC News (North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science), May 22, 2009, https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/870, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ↑ "SoC Alum named 2018 IEEE Fellow", School of Computing News (University of Utah School of Computing), January 3, 2018, https://www.cs.utah.edu/soc-alum-named-2018-ieee-fellow/, retrieved 2019-09-07
External links
- Home page
- Laurie Williams publications indexed by Google Scholar
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