Alexander L. Wolf

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Alexander Lee Wolf
Born (1956-09-12) September 12, 1956 (age 67)
University of Lugano
Imperial College London
University of California, Santa Cruz
ThesisLanguage and Tool Support for Precise Interface Control (1985)
Doctoral advisorLori A. Clarke
Jack C. Wileden[1]
Websitehttps://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~alw/

Alexander L. Wolf (born 12 September 1956) is an American

distributed systems
, and
programming languages
.

Wolf is Past President of the

IEEE Fellow, and BCS Chartered Fellow
.

Early life and education

Wolf was born in New York City to Viennese Austrian immigrant parents. He attended Stuyvesant High School, a public high school specializing in mathematics and science, graduating in 1974. Wolf majored in both geology and computer science at Queens College, City University of New York, where he received his BA degree in 1979.[citation needed] From 1979 to 1985 he studied computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, receiving his MS degree in 1982 and Ph.D. degree in 1985.

Career

Wolf remained at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for two years as a visiting assistant professor and research scientist working on the Arcadia Project, which was laying the technical and theoretical foundations for tool-rich, geographically distributed

software development environments.[8]

In 1987 Wolf joined

software process, and software architecture.[citation needed
]

Wolf began his academic career when he moved to the

University of Lugano, the first such faculty in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. In 2006, Wolf became a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. In July 2016, he became the sixth dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[citation needed
]

Honors and awards

References

  1. ^ "PhD Dissertations in the Area of Software Engineering". ACM SIGSOFT. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  2. ISBN 978-0-470-16774-8
    .
  3. ^ Ingram, Steve (28 March 2014). "DoC Professor receives 2014 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award". Imperial College London. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. S2CID 5702219
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  5. S2CID 5282914
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  6. ^ Wolf, Alexander L. Language and Tool Support for Precise Interface Control (Thesis). University of Massachusetts Amherst (1985, advisor: Lori A. Clarke and Jack C. Wileden).{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  7. ^ "New officers represent more than 100,000 ACM members worldwide". ACM. Retrieved 23 May 2014. ACM has elected Alexander L. Wolf as President for a two-year term beginning July 1.
  8. ^ Taylor, Richard N.; Belz, Frank C.; Clarke, Lori A.; Osterweil, Leon J.; Selby, Richard W.y; Wileden, Jack C.; Wolf, Alexander L.; Young, Michal (November 1988). "Foundations for the Arcadia Environment Architecture". Proc. SIGSOFT '88: Third Symposium on Software Development Environments. Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 1–13.
  9. ^ "Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery". Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  10. ^ "Fellows of the British Computer Society". Archived from the original on 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  11. ^ a b "ACM SIGSOFT Impact Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-07-15.
  12. ^ "Computer Science Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award Program". 2010-10-05.
  13. ^ "Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineerings".
  14. ^ "ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award". Archived from the original on 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  15. ^ "ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2015-03-03.

External links

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