Bill Pugh
Email: pugh at cs.umd.edu
Office: 4121 AV Williams
Address: Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Info: bio, CV, and other such stuff...
News
- I'm now a professor emeritus, having retired from my position as professor to devote my energies to software development, entrepreneurship, and scalable education, My current activities include The Marmoset Project, FindBugs, learning some new skill sets, and pursuing some ideas I have for a startup. And staying hungry and foolish.
- I gave a talk at SUNY StonyBrook on Innovation in teaching software development skills.
- I'll be speaking April 10-11 at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference in Philadelphia.
Software
- FindBugs - static analysis to find coding mistakes in Java code
- Marmoset - A web-based courseware system for programming courses.
- Skip Lists
- Omega project
- Multithreaded test case - unit test framework for concurrent Java code
Research
- Papers
- Programming Language and Software research at UMD
- Finding Near Duplicate Web Pages (work done at Google)
- Java Memory Model - this work has been incorporated into the specification for Java 5.0
- Find Bugs - this works looks what coding defects can be effectively detected using simple static analysis techniques. FindBugs is available as an open source tool that has been downloaded more than 280,000 times.
- Marmoset - a framework for handling testing of student programming projects and a research project studying code from student programming projects.
