This fall, Jody Daniels, CS alum (Ph.D. '97) and 2010 OAA award recipient, was nominated for a promotion to the rank of brigadier general. According to U.S. DoD news release, Daniels will be assigned "as commander, (troop program unit), U.S. Army Reserve Support Command, First Army/deputy commanding general, First Army (East), Fort Meade, Md." Daniels is also the Director of Advanced Programs at Lockheed Martin.
At the ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Jay Corbett (Ph.D. '92), Matthew Dwyer (Ph.D. '95), and co-authors received the ISCE Most Influential Paper Award for their paper "Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models from Java Source Code." The award is given to the author(s) of the paper from the ISCE conference 10 years ago that is judged to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering during the decade since its original publication. Corbett is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Google and Dwyer is currently the Henson Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska.
The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX), New England's premier association for Internet business and marketing, named Steve Vinter (Ph.D. '85) as one of the five new members to its Board of Directors. Vinter is the Director of Google's Cambridge, MA facility.
Intronis Online Backup and Recovery appointed Jay Bolgatz (B.S. '85) as it Vice President of Engineering and Delivery.
Massachusetts-based GenomeQuest, Inc. announced this fall that Richard Resnick (B.S. '94) was appointed acting CEO of the company.
Dr. Tom Wagner (Ph.D. '00) was recently appointed to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Technological Officer at iRobot.