• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1970-74), M.S. Computer Science (1972), Ph.D. Computer Science (1974)

• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1967-69), M.S. Numerical Sciences (1969)

• Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (1960-65), B.A. Mathematics (1965)
  

• (1974-present) Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Full Professor (1990-present), Chairman (1985-88, 1992-present)

• (1989-1990) Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
  Visiting Computer Scientist

• (1984-1988) Computer Sciences Corp., Moorestown, NJ 08057, Senior Computer Scientist, Defense Systems Division

• (1967-70) Goucher College, Towson, MD, 21204, Director, Computer Center, Lecturer, Mathematics

• (1960-67) USN Ship Research & Development Cntr, Annapolis, MD Student Trainee, Statistics and Computer Center (1960-65), Computer Programmer/Analyst, Computer Center (1966-67)
  

Frank Friedman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, where he has taught for the past 25 years. He has written numerous papers on computer science education and has co-authored (with Elliot B. Koffman and Robin Koffman) eight books on structured programming in FORTRAN, BASIC, C, and, most recently, C++. Dr. Friedman was a Visiting Scientist at Computer Sciences Corporation, Defense Systems Division (1984-85) and at the Carnegie-Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (1989-90).

Dr. Friedman's current research interests are in software design paradigms (especially object-oriented paradigms), and the study of the evolution of software design approaches and notations. Earlier interests included software portability and adaptability, the use of abstraction in software construction, programming languages and software metrics.

Dr. Friedman served for four years on the ACM governing board (ACM Council) and chaired the ACM Conferences Board (1986-92). From 1992-96 he has chaired the Steering Committee for ACM Computing Week, the Association's annual conference event. He chaired the 1984 ACM Computer Science Conference, the 1987 National Education Computing Conference, and the 1987 ACM Conference on the History of Scientific and Numeric Computation. He served on the Program Committees for the 1989 ACM/CRA Strategic Directions Conference and the 1990 ACM Critical Issues Conference. He also was a member of the Committee on the ACM 50th Anniversary Celebration and the original planning committee for ACM 97.

Since coming to Temple in 1974, Dr. Friedman has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Software Design and Engineering and in Compiler Design, the three course undergraduate programming/algorithms sequence, a course involving the study of the evolution and comparison of Programming Langauges, and a graduate course in Operating Systems. He has taught Ada, BASIC, C and C++, FORTRAN, and Pascal.

Dr. Friedman's current research focus in the area of object-oriented design and programming paradigms has been on the integration of object-oriented techniques into the graduate and undergraduate curricula at Temple. He and Elliot and Robin Koffman recently completed books entitled Structured Programming, Abstraction, and Program Design using C++ (Second Edition, December, 1996; Vector Edition, August, 1998). In 1992, Dr. Friedman and Professor Rajiv Tewari were awarded two NSF grants for design and development work leading toward the introduction of software engineering concepts and the object-oriented paradigm in the CS1 and CS2 curricula. This work is now complete, and the new curricula is being implemented.

Publications

• (with Rajiv Tewari) Object-Oriented Engineering in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum", Proceedings of the ACM OOPSLA '92 Educator's Symposium, October 18-22, 1992.

• (with Rajiv Tewari) "Incorporating Object-Oriented Concepts in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum", Proceedings of the Sixth SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education, October 5-7, 1992.

• "A Separate Undergraduate Software Engineering Degree Considered Harmful," Proceedings of the 1989 SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education, N. Gibbs, editor, Springer-Verlag, New York, July, 1989.

• (with Paul A. T. Wolfgang) "Choosing Appropriate Ada Tasking Models for Real-Time Embedded Computer Systems", Defense Electronics, Spring, 1987.

• "The Teaching and Practice of Software Design Concepts Early in the CIS Curriculum", Computers and Education, Spring, 1987, Vol. 2, pp. 291-303.

• "Issues Affecting Software Productivity Due to the Introduction of Ada", Technical Report No. SP-IRD 4, Computer Sciences Corporation, Moorestown, New Jersey, June, 1985.

• (with Paul A. T. Wolfgang) "Modeling a Real-Time Embedded Computer System using Ada", Proceedings of the Workshop on Reusable Components of Applications Software, Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C., April, 1985.

• (with Elliot B. Koffman) Problem Solving Abstraction and Design Using C++ , Addison-Wesley Corporation, March, 1994.

• (with A. Giacomucci) "Capsules: A Data Type Abstraction Facility for Pascal", Proceedings of the 1981 ACM National Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1981, pp. 154-160.

• "FORTRAN 77: Impact on Teaching Problem Solving and Structured Programming", Proceedings of the 1980 National Education Computer Conference, Norfolk, VA, May, 1980, pp. 103-111.

• (with Elliot B. Koffman) "Teaching Problem Solving and Structured Programming in FORTRAN", International Journal on Computers in Education (2,3), Pergamon Press, April, 1978, pp. 235 - 45.

• (with Elliot B. Koffman) "A Computer-Aided Flow-Diagram Teaching System", Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Anaheim, CA, February, 1976, pp. 350-354.

• "Decompilation and the Transfer of Assembly-Coded Mini-Computer Systems Programs", Proceedings of the MRI Symposium on Software Engineering, Vol. XXIV, New York, NY, April, 1976, pp. 301-330.

• "An Adaptable Programming System for the Transport of Assembly-Coded Systems Software", Proceedings of the European Computer Conference, London, England, September, 1976, pp. 515-532.

• "An Experience in Teaching Disciplined Programming at an Elementary Level", ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (7, 3), September, 1975, pp. 38-43.

• "A Programming Language for Mini-Computer Systems", Machine Oriented Languages Bulletin, No. 3, Mark Rain, Editor, Norwegian Inst. of Tech., University of Trondheim, Norway, October, 1973.

• "A Systems Oriented Target Language for Decompiling", ACM SIGPLAN Notices (8, 9), September, 1973, pp. 32-44.

• (with Victor B. Schneider) "A Systems Implementation Language for Small Computers, Proceedings of the SIGPLAN-SIGOPS Interface Workshop, Savannah, Georgia, April, 1973, pp. 60-63.

• (with Elliot B. Koffman) Six different textbooks (one in its fifth edition) and two translations (Russian and Spanish) on introductory Problem Solving and Structured Programming in FORTRAN and BASIC (1977-1991). Also (with Elliot B. Koffman and Jeri Hanly), an introductory level programming text using C (1993) and (with Elliot B. Koffman) an introduction to abstraction and program engineering using C++ (March, 1994).

Work in Progress

• (with Sigal Mathalone) "A Behaviorally-Based Methodology for Real-Time System Specifications" (paper).

• (with Sigal Mathalone) "A Proposed Classification of the Characteristics of Real-Time Software Systems" (tentative title; paper, planned).

• "A Perspective on the History of Software Design Methods" (paper, in progress).

• (with Daniel T. Joyce) "The Impact of an Abstraction-Based Programming Approach Upon Software Quality" (unpublished manuscript).