2007 Design Research Summer School

Faculty

Mary Shaw is the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Institute for Software Research, the Computer Science Department, and the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests in computer science lie primarily in the areas of software engineering and programming systems, particularly value-driven software design, support for everyday users, software architecture, programming languages, specifications, and abstraction techniques. She has participated in developing innovative curricula in Computer Science from the introductory to the doctoral level and is an author or editor of seven books and more than one hundred seventy papers and technical reports.

Mark D. Gross teaches computational design at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture. His research interests include understanding design processes and developing computational environments based on this understanding, coordination of team design work, and human-computer interfaces. Gross received a BS in Architectural Design and Ph.D. in Design Theory and Methods, both from MIT. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Gross was on the faculty five years at the University of Washington where he co-directed the Design Machine Group, and for nine years at the University of Colorado, where he developed a design computing curriculum, and co-founded the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. He worked at Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group, Papert's MIT Logo Lab, and Atari Cambridge Research before joining the faculty at Colorado.

Susan Finger is on the faculty of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, the Robotics Institute, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Architecture. Dr. Finger received a B.A. in Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Operations Research from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Electric Power Systems through Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At various institutions, she has been on the faculties of in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Robotics. She was the first program director for the the Design Theory and Methodology program at the National Science Foundation. She is a founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Research in Engineering Design. Dr. Finger's research interests include representation languages for designs, integration of design and manufacturing concerns, and collaborative learning during design projects.

James D. Herbsleb is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Software Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie primarily in the intersection of software engineering and computer-supported cooperative work, focusing on such areas as geographically-distributed development teams, open source software development, and more generally on coordination in software engineering. He holds a JD (1980) and a PhD in psychology (1984) from the University of Nebraska, and an MS in computer science (1991) from the University of Michigan. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, he moved to Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, where he led an effort to empirically validate the CMM for Software. He then joined the Software Production Research Department at Lucent Technologies, where he initiated and led the Bell Labs Collaboratory Project, which conducted empirical studies and designed collaborative technologies and practices for global software development. He is currently PI on two NSF-funded projects investigating various aspects of collaborative software engineering. His research interests are in geographically-distributed software engineering, open source software development, collaboration over distance, and tools and technologies that support coordination.