Edward L. Robertson

schedule:

SPRING 2009
      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                    B666
Tuesdy                                                P466/566
Wednes         Engle                    B666          DSI
Thursdy Mrtn                                          P466/566
Friday      commit P4/566            committees  colloq

P466/566 meets in LH 102 TR, Woodburn 015 F, B666 in LH 401D

phone:

812-855-???? number is changing 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.