Edward L. Robertson

schedule:

FALL 2008    away Nov 8-15
      8:00  9:00  10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00
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Monday_Mrtn  Engle                                                     B669
Tuesdy                                  B665          P465/565
Wednes                                         Engle  DSI
Thursdy Mrtn                            B665          P465/565
Friday      commit P4/565            committees  colloq

P465/565 meets in LH 102, B665 in LH 401D

phone:

812-855-4954 (both offices); 812-855-4829 (CS FAX); 812-336-3696 (home)

Do not leave voice mail; in spite of appearances, it does not work.

internet:

edrbtsn (of course, append indiana.edu)

postal:

Computer Science Department
215 Lindley Hall
Bloomington IN 47405-4101

professional/academic interests and activities:

• curriculum vita, in PostScript and curriculum vita, in PDF
• affiliated with Indiana University's Database Group and the Center for Data and Search Informatics
• for my papers that are on-line, I refer you to the Database Group's list of papers (This is prudent database practice, not mere laziness; it minimizes redundancy).
• Thanks to NSF IIS grant 82407, Information Dependencies, for research support.

courses:

Software Engineering (a.k.a. Information Systems), P465-6 or P565-6

Software Engineering Management, B665-6

Special topics seminars, typically offered every spring semester. See that page for current and past year's topics.

Aphorisms, words of wisdom, or just fun

Unstructured data is unmanaged data.

Things are complicated, it's just that simple.

Messages from the mountain, allegories about systems design and development.

If tools that concentrate on user interface over functionality (like Microsoft Access® and its various PC-based competitors) were used to build houses, houses would look like this.