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University people:<br />
Patricia Costa 301-403-8995 pcosta@fc-md.umd.umd<br />
Roseanne Tesoriero 301-403-8937 roseanne@cs.umd.edu<br />
Carolyn Seaman 301-403-8937 cseaman@umbc.edu<br />
Conference Room 301-403-8829<br />
ClassRoom 301-403-8975<br />
Students lounge 301-403-2706<br />
Catherine Sinex<br />
(Vic’s secr. at univ.)<br />
Program Management Specialist<br />
<strong>Computer</strong> Science <strong>Department</strong><br />
University <strong>of</strong> Maryland<br />
Phone: 301-405-2739, 301-405-3691(FAX), cathy@cs.umd.edu<br />
Jeff Carver<br />
carver@cs.umd.edu<br />
Maurizio Morisio morisio@cs.umd.edu (now back in Torino)<br />
Manoel Mendonza manoel@cs.umd.edu (now in Brazil)<br />
Guilherme H. Travassos travassos@cs.umd.edu (also now in Brazil)<br />
Vic’s group:<br />
um-eseg@cs.umd.edu, vics-people@cs.umd.edu<br />
The Univ. <strong>of</strong> Maryland has several campuses. The largest one with 35,000 students is in<br />
College Park, 15 km northwest <strong>of</strong> Washington, DC. It is well connected by metro from<br />
downtown, a 20 minutes ride with a connecting shuttle bus (I mostly walked).<br />
It has a large and well-respected computer science department, with a faculty <strong>of</strong> 40 pr<strong>of</strong>essors.<br />
It graduates 300 BSc’s per year in informatics, ca. 30 with a MSc and ca. 15 PhDs per year.<br />
I was a guest <strong>of</strong> the Empirical S<strong>of</strong>tware Engineering Group (ESEG), lead by pr<strong>of</strong>essor Vic<br />
Basili and Marv Zelkowitz. The group has close to 20 members, mostly PhD students, plus<br />
researchers and guests like me (four such).<br />
There is an affiliated Fraunh<strong>of</strong>er Center -- Maryland (FC-MD), established in 1998, a sister<br />
insitute <strong>of</strong> the Fraunh<strong>of</strong>er IESE in Kaiserslautern, lead by Hans-Dieter Rombach (an ex<br />
Maryland colleague). FC-MD has about 10 researchers, again lead by Basili and Zelkowitz. I<br />
had my daily work in that research center. They just moved to a larger <strong>of</strong>fice facility, 10 min.<br />
walk from the computer science department.<br />
The ESEG group has the following strong areas:<br />
• Inspection techniques: perspection-based and object-oriented inspections.<br />
• Experience bases with a surrounding Experience Factory (own creation) to support<br />
organizational learning.<br />
• Research methods, especially around repeatable experiments and metrics, using own<br />
Goal Question Metrics (GQM) method.<br />
• Component-based s<strong>of</strong>tware development (COTS).<br />
• S<strong>of</strong>tware Process Improvement, using own Quality Improvement Paradigm (QIP)<br />
method.<br />
They have many projects with NASA, Motorola, DaimlerChrysler, a collection <strong>of</strong> large<br />
companies in a S<strong>of</strong>tware Experience Center (SEC), and a consortium <strong>of</strong> SMEs in Maryland<br />
Reidar Conradi: Report from Sabbatical year 1999/2000 Page 9 <strong>of</strong> 48
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