Frank L. Friedman

Office Phones:

• 215-204-5559

Email: frank.friedman@temple.edu

This webpage is maintained by Frank Friedman.
Last Updated 01/15/2008.

Other Documents

Frank's Biographical Sketch (short vita)

List of Textbooks Authored

Current Courses -- Fall 2008

CIS 3209 (old number: CIS 0209) Section 1

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 Family

Dara and her husband Rob
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now live just outside the great city of Baltimore. She is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Psychology at Goucher College.    Follow this link for more information.  


Dara is a 1997 graduate of Vassar College and an August, 2005 PhD in Clinical Psychology
from American University (August, 2005).     Dara's web page is her artisan page which you are
welcome to visit (and contribute to the cause).


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

Rob's Red Sox passion is somewhat at odds with my Orioles passion
(except that one team knows how to play the game and the other doesn't).

Shelley now lives in Arlington, VA and Orchestra Librarian for the
Washington National Opera (Washington, DC)
Shelley is a 1993 graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY

And then there are the cats: Chava ............................................and Goldie
.....

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 efforts 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. Currently the Academic Advisor to the ACM Member Activities Board.

  • 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.
  
  
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