Bill Pugh
Email: pugh at cs.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2705, (301) 405-6707 (fax)
Office: 4143 AV Williams
Address: Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Info: bio, CV, and other such stuff...
News
- I presented a keynote talk on Judging the Value of Static Analysis that I presented at Static Analysis Summit II
- I'm a 3-time JavaOne rock star
- JavaOne talk The Java Memory Model: The Building Block of Concurrency
- Podcast interview by the Java Posse
- Announcement that Fortify Software is now the sponsor of the FindBugs project
Teaching
- Spring 2008: CMSC 132: Object-Oriented Programming II
Talks and presentations
- Quicktime movie showing of demo of our new GUI to view some of the null pointer bugs in Eclipse (Big file warning: 23 Megabytes)
- Talk Bill Pugh gave at SD Best Practices, Sept 14th (more of a handle on tutorial about using FindBugs)
- Talk Bill Pugh gave at ITA Software and MIT, Sept 12th and 13th (more of a research focus)
- Video of talk Bill Pugh gave at Google, July 6th, 2006
- Java Posse podcast interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz
Research
- 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 defectings 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.
