Raymie Stata Assistant Professor, Computer Science   Office: Baskin Engineering 357B (directions) Phone: 831-459-3576 Fax: 831-459-4829 E-mail: raymie@cs.ucsc.edu

This Spring (2004) I will be teaching Topics in Software Engineering (CMPS 290G), and running it as a project-based workshop on the actual process of research. Through a guided, hands-on experience, the goal of this course is to give you first-hand experience with both the nature and process of a certain type of research in Software Engineering. (As "certain type of research" suggests, there are many ways to do research, and the field of Software Engineering is borad. The style and topics of research demonstrated in this workship will obviously be biased by the instructor.)

I am pursuing two research interests. The first is in Web Archeology, the study of the content (vs. the mechanism) of the Web, focusing on Web scale tools for studying the Web. The paper Towards web-scale web archaeology provides an overview of this work. (See our recent paper on specialized Web search.)

My second area of research will be in software quality-assurance automation. Going forward, I will be looking at combining static and dynamic checking.

My curriculum vita.