Peri Tarr

Me with my favorite (plastic!) battle axe. Don't go to graduate school (or out into the real world, for that matter) without one! (Photo courtesy of Mark Wegman, who is being menaced for forcing me to be photographed.)

I am a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. My research interests are in the areas of software engineering environments, aspect-oriented software development, software integration and interoperability, traceability, consistency and inconsistency management, and IT governance. In a previous life, I co-founded and co-lead the Hyper/J and Concern Manipulation Environment projects (AOSD), and I spent more time thinking about persistence, transactions, and concurrency control than I can remember (largely because as a software researcher, my brain size hasn't been able to keep pace with that of the computer storage systems that my hardware-oriented colleagues keep producing). I am a past conference chair for OOPSLA 2006 and program chair for AOSD 2005, and I have served (or am serving) on the program committees for ICSE, FSE, OOPSLA, ECOOP, AOSD, GPCE, and others.

I have recently started working on governance science, with a focus on risk, value, adaptation, and emergence in software development. (Stay tuned--one day soon, I'll actually be able to tell you what this means.)



Last updated 19 Feb 2008