Edward L. Robertson

schedule:

Spring 2008      away May 17-22, June 12-22, July 5-22
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Monday_Mrtn
Tuesdy      Infor Admin 
Wednes            Engle                                  DSI___
Thursdy Mrtn 
Friday      CScomm P4/566           committees  colloq

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.

Lo, though I speak with tongues of men and angels and have not clarity, I am nothing. 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.