Frank L. Friedman

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Email: frank.friedman@temple.edu

This webpage is maintained by Frank Friedman.
Last Updated 01/14/2009.

Other Documents

Frank's Biographical Sketch (short vita)

List of Textbooks Authored

Current Courses -- Fall 2009

CIS 3309 Section 1 - Component-Based Software Design
      Tu Th 11:00AM - 12:20PM
      Wed     3:00PM -   4:50PM LAB

Previous Courses

CIS 501 (was CIS 542) - Spring 2003

CIS 068 - Fall 2002

CIS 067 - Fall 2001

CIS 083 - Fall 1998

CIS 223 - Spring 1997

My children ...

Dara and her husband Rob                                  and their son Sammy
   

now live just outside my hometown of Baltimore. Dara is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Psychology at Goucher College  

Rob Wheeler, Dara's husband, is a Research Assistant in Psychiatry at the at the University
of Pennsylvania Psycho-Pathology Research Unit .     

Shelley now lives in Arlington, VA, and is the Orchestra Librarian for the
Washington National Opera (Washington, DC)

Interests

• Computer Science Education
• Object Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming Paradigms
• Software Design, Methods, and Tools
• Software Engineering (especially from an historical point of view)
• Software Metrics
• ACM
  
  
  
  
  

  Background

  • Professor, Temple University Department of Computer and Information
    Sciences, 1990- .

  • Active in Association for Computing Machinery since 1979. Regional
    Programming Contest organizer (1979-85), member of ACM Council (as
    Allegheny Region Representative, 1982-86), Chairman, ACM Conferences
    Board (1986-92), and Chairman of the ACM Computing Week Steering
    Committee (1992-96). Served as the Chairman (later the Treasurer) of the
    FCRC '93 Operations Committee, as a member of the FCRC '96 Steering
    Committee, and as the Exhibits Coordinator for FCRC '96. Involved in the
    planning for the ACM 50th Anniversary Celebration and for ACM97, a
    conference celebrating the next 50 years of computing, held in San Jose,
    CA, March 1-5, 1997. Academic Advisor to the ACM Member Activities
    Board, 1997-2000.

  • PhD, Purdue University, Department of Computer Science, 1974. Thesis Title:
    • Decompilation and the Transfer of Operating Systems for Small General
      Purpose Computers
  • MS, The John Hopkins University, Numerical Science, 1969.
  • BA, Antioch College, Mathematics, 1965.
  
  
  Still under construction -- The CIS Department Corporate Partners Program