David Notkin (1 January 1955 – 22 April 2013) was an American software engineer and professor of computer science.

Early life and education

Notkin was born in 1955 in

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, U.S. He pursued his Sc. B. degree from

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, graduating in 1977, and later received his doctoral degree from

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in 1984. He then moved to Seattle and joined as a faculty at the

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. His interest was in

software engineering Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Application software, software applications. It involves applying engineering design process, engineering principl ...

, with a particular focus on

software evolution Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. Software evolution is important because organizations invest large amounts of money in the ...

Career

In 2000, Notkin received the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington. He served as chair of the computer science and engineering department from 2001 to 2006, during which he helped to open the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. He was a Fellow of both the ACM and

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. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the editor-in-chief of the '' ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology''. He was also a board member of the

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. Notkin is also noted for his efforts to expand the demographics of computing research, particularly to include women. In 2013, he received the

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in recognition of this. He is also one of the two people after whom the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, given by the

National Center for Women & Information Technology The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to increase participation of girls and women in computing. NCWIT was founded in 2004 by Lucinda (Lucy) Sanders, Dr. Telle Whitney, a ...

, is named. In February 2013, the University of Washington announced the creation of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering, in an event attended by over 300 computer science students at the university to recognise Notkin's contributions.

Death and legacy

After a few years of battling

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, Notkin died on April 22, 2013.

Awards

Notkin received a number of awards: * National Science Foundation

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(1988) * Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Washington (2000) *

ACM SIGSOFT The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software ...

Distinguished Service Award (2007) *

Influential Educator Award (2012) *

Outstanding Research Award (2013) *

(2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Notkin, David 1955 births 2013 deaths Academics from Syracuse, New York Brown University alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni University of Washington faculty 1998 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE American computer scientists