Trudy Levine has been writing a column for Ada Letters called Reusable Software Components since 1990, which has been reprinted in Crosstalk and maintained in several electronic bulletin boards. She is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson and a corresponding member of RIG. She has been trying to augment reuse material in her software engineering courses over the last few years and has taught a special topics seminar course on software reuse. Her research interests also include conflict control and the Ada programming language.