Jim Law

Current

• Scientist at SPAWAR

Past

• Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Trento
• Scientist at SPAWAR
• CEO at Expert Squared Systems (Sole Proprietorship)

• Research assistant at OSU Empirical Software Engineering Lab

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Education

• Oregon State University
• San Francisco State University
• University of Idaho

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Connections

14 connections

Industry

Defense & Space

Websites

• My Blog

Jim Law’s Summary

Wide range of experience with software engineering, service-oriented architectures (SOA), semantic web technologies, distributed software technologies, middleware, and TCP/IP. Have an interesting problem? Email me.

Jim Law’s Specialties:

Exploration, research, prototype, evaluation, production.

Jim Law’s Experience

• Scientist

  SPAWAR

  (Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Mix of system engineering, research, and research administration.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  University of Trento

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  www.liquidpub.org

• Scientist

  SPAWAR

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  February 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 4 months)

  SOA, all the way.

• CEO

  Expert Squared Systems (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Research industry)

  September 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  One year research contract to build artificial intelligence prototypes for SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego.

• Research assistant

  OSU Empirical Software Engineering Lab

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  August 1997 — December 2003 (6 years 5 months)

  Pioneered new dynamic program analysis techniques in distributed and component-based software. Configuration manager for multi-university software engineering tool-building research consortium. Supervised software development.

Jim Law’s Education

• Oregon State University

  PhD , Computer science , 1997 — 2003

  All the really interesting questions are undecidable.

  Activities and Societies:

  Teaching, software engineering research. President of Computer Science Grad Students Association 1997-98.

• San Francisco State University

  MS , Computer science , 1993 — 1995

  Back when C and BSD sockets ruled the Internet.

  Activities and Societies:

  Grad teaching associate

• University of Idaho

  BS , Mining Engineering

  "A four-year degree only proves you are trainable." Chris Hall, my advisor.

  Activities and Societies:

  Full four-year scholarship from the Steele-Reece Foundation.

Additional Information

Jim Law’s Websites:

• My Blog

Jim Law’s Interests:

Knowledge evolution, software engineering, semantic web, software architecture, logics, reasoning, social networks, p2p architecture, knowledge representation

Jim Law’s Groups:

IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGSOFT, International Society for Artificial Life, Long Now Foundation

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Jim Law’s Honors:

Three-year Italian postdoctoral scholarship at University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

Jim Law’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch