Bill Pugh

Current

Visiting Scientist at Google
Professor at University of Maryland, College Park

Past

Software Developer at Texas Instruments

Education

Cornell University
Syracuse University
Cincinnati Country Day School

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Bill Pugh’s Summary

As a CS professor, I do research on static analysis for software defect detection (the FindBugs project) as well as a number of topics related to helping developers effectively build correct and reliable software. Among other topics, I'm particularly interested in the challenges in developing high quality concurrent software.

I've also very intterested in computer science education, looking at how to better prepare students for the challenges facing software developers.

Among other research projects, the open source FindBugs project is a widely used (400,000+ downloads) tool for finding coding mistakes. It is used by Google, Sun, and many other technology and financial firms.

Bill Pugh’s Specialties:

Program analysis, static analysis for finding coding mistakes, designing/writing/testing multithreaded software, algorithms and data structures

Bill Pugh’s Experience

Visiting Scientist

Google

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Worked at Google summer of 2000 on detecting near duplicate web pages, and summers of 2006 and 2007 on integration of static analysis and FindBugs into software development at Google.
Professor

University of Maryland, College Park

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

August 1988 — Present (21 years 4 months)
Software Developer

Texas Instruments

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Computer Software industry)

June 1980 — June 1983 (3 years 1 month)

Software developer; developed program/file/directory browser/editor and a spreadsheet application.