Michael W. Godfrey @ UWaterloo

On sabbatical 1-Aug-11 to 31-July-12 at CWI

[Contact information is at the bottom of the page.]

Research

Teaching

• Papers and a few talks
• SWAG: Our research group
  • I am also a member of the SE and PLG research groups, but those websites are painfully out-of date
• Graduate supervision
• My little UML page
• Kent Beck's advice on paper writing

• CS846 — Topics in Software Evolution and Design
  I last taught this course in Winter 2011
• CS138 — Introduction to Data Abstraction and Implementation
  I last taught this course in Winter 2011
  Course designer/co-ordinator since 2009
• CS445 — Software Requirements and Specification
  (aka SE463 / CS645 / ECE451)
  I last taught this course in Fall 2010
• CS246 — Software Abstraction and Specification
  I last taught this course in Winter 2008;
  Course co-ordinator 2000-2004
• JDuck (old but it was fun)

Conferences etc. I'm on the PC for
(or have some other interesting role)

Conferences I was on the PC for, but are now over

• I will be program co-chair (along with Arie van Deursen) for the 20th IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC-12), to be held in June 11-13, 2012 in Passau, Germany.
• 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-12), to be held in June 2-3, 2012 in Zürich, co-located with ICSE-12.
• 6th Intl. Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC-12), to be held June 4, 2012 in Zürich, Switzerland, colocated with ICSE-12.
• I've been on the editorial board for the journal Software Maintenance and Evolution: Practice and Experience (JSME) since November 2010.
• I sit or have sat on the following steering committees:
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) since May 2009
  • IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) 2007-2010
  • IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2007-2010

• ICSM: 2011 (also DC, again), 2010 (also TC), 2008, 2007, 2006 (also DC)
• ICPC: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• SCAM: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (PC), 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
• WCRE: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• MSR: 2011, 2010, 2009 (PC), 2008 (PC), 2007, 2006
• CSMR: 2008, 2005, 2004
• IWSC: 2011, 2010, 2009
• MODELS educators' symposium: 2011
• ICSE: 2010 (NIER track), 2001 (OC)
• ateM (now called SLE): 2007, 2006, 2004 (CO), 2003 (CO)
• IWPSE: 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003 (PC), 2002
• CASCON: 2009, 2008, 2006
• RSSE: 2010, 2008
• QTAP: 2008 (CO)
• LATE: 2008, 2007
• ETX: 2007
• Evol: 2008, 2007
• FLOSS: 2007
• SEAMS: 2007
• ASE: 2006
• ELISA: 2003 (CO)
• CoSET: 2000

PC = Program co-chair, CO = Co-organizer, OC = Org. committee
TC = Tutorials chair, DC = PhD dissertation co-chair

Service and external relations

Trivia

• Between 2006 and 2011 I served on the SCS Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee (UAPC, formerly known as the Curriculum Committee).
• Between 2009 and 2011, I served on the Software Engineering Curruculum Committee as well as the SCS Infrastructure Committee.

• My Erdos number is no worse than 3 (Gauss is a 4)
  • Erdos → Jeff Shallit → Andrew Malton → Me
  
  
• Anagrams of "Michael Godfrey":
  • Fierce, godly ham.
  • Chiefly, mad ogre.
  • Hey! decimal frog.
  • Grey, modal chief.
    

During the 2003-04 academic year, I was on sabbatical at Sun Microsystems Research Lab in Mountain View, CA. I worked on two research projects involving static analysis tools, Jackpot and Salsa, and I got to work with a number of really sharp tool developers, including Michael Van De Vanter, Tom Ball, Tim Prinzing, and James Gosling (all Jackpot), as well as John Crupi, Deepak Alur, Yury Kamen, and Syed Ali (all Salsa).

I was a faculty member at Cornell University between 1996 and 1998; I taught the software engineering course and some others, and I was the associate director of their M.Eng. program. I also did some work with the Predator / Jaguar object-relational database project, which led to a paper at SIGMOD-98. Before that, I was a graduate student and occasional full-time lecturer at the University of Toronto.