Short Vita for Dr. Richard John Botting 

Position: Professor, Tenured at California State University, San 
	Bernardino.  
	Appointed as Associate professor in 1982. 
	Tenure and promotion to full Professor: 1986.

Qualifications
	B. Tech. Mathematics Brunel University(UK) 1968
	Ph. D. Computer Science Brunel University(UK) 1971

Experience
   1964-1968: Industrial Experience as programmer in co-op program.
   1970-1979: Taught Computer Science at Brunel University, West London, UK.
   1979-1982: Taught and developed methods for analysis, design,
	and programming at the Civil Service College, London, England.

Research Area
	Software development: Methods, Theories, Training, and Practice.

Web Site
	http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/
	Includes an extensive bibliography and other resources
	for software developers and researchers.  

Sample of Master's Projects and Theses Advised and Recently Completed
2009
   Chinamthevi, Suneetha: Integrating Web Services and SVG
2008
   Richardson, Matt: Going Global with Interaction Design
2006
   Conrad, Paul: Thesis on the use of PSP.
2005
   Farquhar, Cynthia: Thesis surveying the use of the UML in software 
	projects.
   Rahim, Humaira: Project that helps MS students and advisors 
        develop project artifacts.
   Vadaparty, Sirisha: Project developing a tool that uses Semantic 
	Tableaux to help students prove theorems in the Lower Predicate and
	Propositional Calculus.
2004
   Huang, Angela: Project implementing a program that attempts to play 
	Minesweeper
   Reddy, Rohini: a Web-based tool for net administration.
   Chou, Chieh-Chou: mOrder POS Server for a restaurent.
2003
   Wu, Chi-Chuan: an experimental web-based EMail client.
   Lee, Chen-Hsiu: Java tool for AND/OR tables.

Recent Activities
	http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/blog.html

Recent Publications
Computer Reviews Online -- up to date listing of of my contributions
	http://www.reviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=115728

2006
 "Use Case Diagrams", IEEE Computer Magazine V39n8(Sep 2006) p5

2005
 'Small Errors in "Toward formalizing domain modeling semantics in language
	syntax"' IEEE Trans Software Engineering  V31n10(Oct 2005)pp911

  "Teaching and Learning Ethics in Computer Science: Walking the Walk", ACM
	SIGCSE Bulletin "Inroads" V37 n1 (Mar 2005) pp342-346.

 "On the co-evolution of SSADM and the UML", Chapter V (pages 134-151) in 
	"Software Evolution with UML and XML" The Idea Group, Hershey PA &
	London UK 2005 ISBN 1-59140-462-2

Key Activities before 2003

Presented paper "A Solvable Stochastic Model of Debugging" at
	SCI'2002, Published in the proceedings on CD-ROM, also at CSUSB & UCSB.

Presented and published: "ROOT Project: An integration pf an OOA/D 
	Methodology in the Computer Science Curriculum", Drs. Botting, 
	Concepcion, and Mr.  Darryl Scroggins (student), Proceedings of the
	SCI'2000, Vol II, pages
	401-405.

"On Using a Popular Notation for Describing Semantics", ACM Special 
Interest Group on Program Languages SIGPLAN Notices Vol 34 No 6(Jun 
1999)pp82-83 plus correspondence December 1999.

Paper: `On the Economics of Mass-Marketed Software`, Proceedings of the 
19th International Conference of Software Engineering, Boston, May 1997.

Short Paper: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.  Vol 22, No 12 Dec
96) page 911 `Comments on "A Formal Semantics for Object Model Diagrams"`

Paper presented at ICSE'1995: "Can One Size Fit All?" on Software economics.

Recent Consultancies
   2002: Expert Witness in source code copyright case for EvidentData.
   1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,2003,2004: Consultant and Judge of Computer Work
	and WWW pages at the Los Angeles  County Fair.
   2000 PC University:  HTML and Javascript.
   Prepublication reviews of manuscripts for publishers such as Wiley, 
	Scott/Jones, and Addison Wesley.

Memberships

	Member of  the Association of Computing Machinery since 1983.  
	Member of the Special Interest groups for Computer Science 
	Education, and Software Engineering.

	Associate member of the Computer Society of the Institute of  
	Electrical and Electronic Engineers(CS of IEEE).

	Member of Sigma Xi.

Teaching
	Core Computer Science: CS1, CS2, Programming Languages, Formal 
	Methods, ...
	Also taught Theory, Ethics, Senior Seminar, Scripting, Systems 
	Administration, Systems and Requirements Analysis.
	....
	All courses include extensive and searchable WWW sites.
	Distance Learning versions of suitable classes.