January 16, 2003

Williams, Vouk Receive IBM Eclipse Innovation Award

Dr. Williams (Photo: Herman Lankford)		Dr. Vouk (Photo: Herman Lankford)

Dr. Laurie A. Williams, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Mladen A. Vouk, professor of computer science, associate vice provost for Information Technology and technical director of the Center for Advanced Computing and Communications (CACC) at NC State, have received an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award for their project “Good Enough Reliability Tool.”  The project, which is an extension of the work of graduate student Lili Wang, will be continued in her memory.  The award is for $28,000.

Williams and Vouk will use Eclipse, IBM’s open source development environment, to create a reliability test for Extreme Programming, a software development process.  They hope to design online tutorials that will benefit university educators in their project.

— rudd —