Rather nice photo of me at ICSM-08 in Beijing

Michael W. Godfrey @ UWaterloo

Greetings!

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

Research

Service and external relations

A selection of my papers and talks
SWAG: Our research group
- I am also a member of the SE and PLG research groups
Graduate supervision
My little UML page
Useful hacklets
Kent Beck's advice on paper writing

I'm a CAS Faculty Fellow at the IBM Centre for Advanced Study in Toronto.
I'm the Lab Director for the SWAG (graduate) research group at the University of Waterloo.
Since Fall 2006, I've been serving on the SCS Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee (UAPC, formerly known as the Curriculum Committee).
Since July 2009, I've been serving on the Software Engineering Curruculum Committee as well as the SCS Infrastructure Committee.

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

19th Intl. IBM Conference of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON-09), to be held Nov 5–9 2009 in Markham, ON.
7th IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-10), to be held in May 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track at ICSE-10, to be held 2–8 May 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.
4th Intl. Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC-10), to be held in May 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa, co-located with ICSE-10.
2nd Intl. Workshop of Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE-10), to be held in May 2010 in Cape Town South Africa, co-located with ICSE-10.
18th IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC-10), to be held 30 June – 2 July 2010 in Braga, Portugal.
I will be tutorials chair (and on the program committee) for the 26th IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM-10), to be held 12–18 Sept 2010 in Timișoara, Romania.
10th IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM-10), to be help in September 2010 in Timișoara, Romania, co-located with ICSM-10.
I also sit on the following steering committees:
- IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) since June 2007
- IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) since October 2007
- IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) since May 2009

ICSM-08; ICSM-07; ICSM-06 (also PhD dissertation co-chair)
ICPC-09; ICPC-08; ICPC-07; ICPC-06; IWPC-05; IWPC-04; IWPC-03; IWPC-02
SCAM-09; SCAM-08; SCAM-07 (program co-chair); SCAM-06; SCAM-05; SCAM-04; SCAM-03; SCAM-02; SCAM-01
WCRE-09; WCRE-08; WCRE-07; WCRE-06; WCRE-05; WCRE-04; WCRE-03; WCRE-02
MSR-09 (program co-chair); MSR-08 (program co-chair); MSR-07 ; MSR-06
CSMR-08; CSMR-05; CSMR-04
IWSC-09
ateM-07; ateM-06; ateM-04 (co-organizer); ateM-03 (co-organizer)
IWPSE-09; IWPSE-07; IWPSE-05; IWPSE-04; IWPSE-03 (program co-chair); IWPSE-02
CASCON-08; CASCON-06
RSSE-08
QTAPC-08 (co-organizer)
LATE-08; LATE-07
ETX-07
Evol-08; Evol-07
FLOSS-07
SEAMS-07
ASE-06
ELISA-03 (co-organizer)
ICSE-01 (org. committee: student volunteer co-chair)
CoSET-00

Teaching

Looking for JDuck?

CS846 Topics in Software Evolution and Design
course last given in Winter 2009
CS138 Functional Programming and Data Abstraction
course designer / co-ordinator since 2009; I will teach this course in Winter 2010
CS445 Software Requirements and Specification
I am teaching this course in Fall 2009
CS246 Software Abstraction and Specification
course co-ordinator 2000-2004; I last taught this course in Winter 2008

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The past

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. I almost moved to Philadelphia permanently in 1998, but that's a long story and I am very happy to be here.
Here is my favourite picture of me with my oldest son Trevor. OK OK, here's another picture, taken when he was a bit over a year old. Here's a picture of both of my sons communing with nature. One more? Here's Trevor again in a typical pose, admiring his trail of destruction. The stains from the coffee grounds never did come out ...

Trivia

My Erdos number is no worse than 3 (Carl Friedrich Gauss is a 4, so there).

Paul Erdos -> Jeff Shallit -> Andrew Malton -> Mike Godfrey

(former shortest path: Paul Erdos -> Aviezri S. Fraenkel -> Gerald Estrin -> Dan Berry -> Mike Godfrey)

Anagrams of "Michael Godfrey":

Fierce, godly ham.
Chiefly, mad ogre.
Hey! decimal frog.
Grey, modal chief.

More fun stuff

Michael W. Godfrey PhD, Associate Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA
Tel. +1 (519) 888-4567 ext. 34437, FAX +1 (519) 885-1208
Office: DC2340
email:
URL: http://www.uwaterloo.ca/~migod