Author bios
Thomas E. Potok
IBM Software Solutions Division, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: potok@vnet.ibm.com).
Dr. Potok is an advisory programmer at the Software Solutions
Laboratory of IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is
currently merging the Application Development and Database for the
Software Solutions RTP lab. He has successfully led the lab in
achieving ISO 9000 certification. Prior to this, he led a team in
creating an object-oriented data model designed to work with CASE
(computer-assisted software engineering) tools to improve application
development and quality. He has led and been a member of various other
software development efforts. He has a B.S. degree in computer science,
an M.S. degree in computer engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in computer
engineering, all from North Carolina State University. He has authored
11 publications and has filed 2 patents.
Mladen A. Vouk
Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Box
8206, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (electronic mail: vouk@adm.csc.ncsu.edu). Dr. Vouk received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of London, United Kingdom. He has extensive
experience in both commercial software production and academic
computing environments. He is the author or coauthor of over 100
publications. He is currently a professor of computer science at North
Carolina State University. His research and development interests
include: software process and risk management, software testing and
reliability, scientific problem-solving work flows, advanced
high-performance networking, coding theory, and computer-based
education. He teaches courses on software engineering, software testing
and reliability, software process and risk management, and
communication networks. Dr. Vouk is chairman of the IFIP (International
Federation for Information Processing), Working Group 2.5 on Numerical
Software. He is also a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers) and a member of the Reliability Society,
Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee
on Software Engineering, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
American Society for Quality Control, and Sigma Xi. He is an associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
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