Adam A. Porter

Email: aporter@cs.umd.edu

Phone: (301) 405-2702, Fax: (301) 405-6707

Office: 4125 A.V. Williams

Positions:

Awards and Honors:

Academic Degree: Ph.D. University of California at Irvine, 1991

Professional Service:

Served on editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Co-organizer: New Visions for Software Design & Productivity: Research & Applications Workshop of the Interagency Working Group for Information Technology Research and Development (ITRD) Software Design and Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group. Click here for final repor t.

News and Events:

World's first MOOC on developing applications with Android. To learn about MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courseware) and to support my flipped classroom offering of CMSC436: Programming Handheld Systems, On September 2, 2013, I opened up my own MOOC, "Programming Handheld Systems with Android" at https://www.learn-android.appspot.com. Feel free to take a look and give me suggestions for improvement. I will be offering an improved version of this course on the Coursera platform. You sign up for that course at http://coursera.org/course/android
I recently appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi Show where I discussed the booming job market in mobile application development. Tech Tuesday: Where the Jobs Are
Android Teaching Materials: Programming the Android Platform: A Student-Driven Effort to Develop Open-Source Android Teaching Materials Link to Fall 2011 CMSC436: Programming Handheld Devices.
My paper "A.A. Porter and R.W. Selby, Empirically Guided Software Development Using Metric-Based Classification" was listed as one of the 20 most-widely cited articles published in the 25 year history of IEEE Software.
Atif Memon and I gave a lecture about our research at Google's 2nd Conference on Test Automation in New York, August 23-24, 2007. Click here to view the lecture, entitled " Skoll: A System and Approach for Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance" on YouTube. The accompanying presentation slides can be found here.

Mobile App Development

My CV