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Larry E. Druffel
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| Biography for Larry E. Druffel |
Larry Druffel is a visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the SEI director from 1986-1996.
He recently retired as President and CEO of SCRA, a public, non-profit research and development corporation engaged in the application of advanced technology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Teknowledge Corporation and a member of the Advisory Board of Amaix Corporation. Before joining the SEI, he was vice president for business development at Rational Software. He served on the Board of Directors of Rational from 1986-1995.
Druffel was on the faculty at the USAF Academy. He later managed research programs in advanced software technology at DARPA. He was founding director of the Ada Joint Program Office, then served as director of Computer Systems and Software (Research and Advanced Technology) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He is the coauthor of a computer science textbook and over 35 professional papers, including the Chapter on Information Warfare for the ACM Fiftieth Anniversary Book ¡°Beyond Computing¡±. He has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, an MSc in computer science from the University of London, and a PhD in computer science from Vanderbilt University.
Druffel is a life fellow of the IEEE, and a fellow of the ACM. He has served on Engineering Advisory Boards of the University of South Carolina, Clemson and Embry Riddle University. He has also served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Advanced Technology Institute, a non-profit R&D corporation.
He is currently a participating on the NRC study on Advanced Software Intensive Systems Producibility. He has previously served on numerous AFSAB, DSB, and NRC studies dealing with the use of information technology, including the National Research Council study of Engineering Challenges to the Long Term Operation of the Space Station. He chaired the AF Science Advisory Board Study on Information Architecture and co-chaired the Defense Science Board study on Acquiring Defense Software Commercially. He led the Defensive Information Warfare Panel for the AFSAB ¡°New World Vistas¡±.
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| Personal Web Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lifetimeline/Druffel.html |
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