Biography

Mitchell D. Lubars is a research scientist at Electronic Data Systems, Research and Development in Austin Texas. He is part of a team developing a domain modeling language and tools to support the application-specific domain modeling needs within EDS. He also provides part-time consulting in the areas of software reusability, domain analysis, and object-oriented analysis and design.

Prior to coming to EDS, Dr. Lubars was a member of the technical staff at MCC for six years, working in the areas of software design reusability and requirements analysis. While at MCC, he developed the ROSE-1 and ROSE-2 design reuse systems.

Dr. Lubars received the A.B. degree in biology from Cornell University, in 1977. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1980 and 1986 respectively. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computer Society, and AAAI.

Neil Iscoe is director of the EDS Austin Laboratory for Software Engineering and Computer Science, which is part of the Electronic Data Systems Research and Development organization. Prior to EDS, Iscoe had extensive experience with large industrial applications at MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Consortium). He conducted field studies and performed analyses of large software projects in application domains such as telephony, command and control, manufacturing, avionics, and other real time distributed application areas. Prior to MCC, he served as president of Statcom Corporation, a company that produced and marketed a line of CASE tools and provided consulting services for programming companies. As a founder of the company, Iscoe designed the initial product and also served as the company's technical director.

Dr. Iscoe received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1990 and 1988 respectively, and his undergraduate engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1977. He serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas.