Martin L. Griss -  Short Biography

Senior Software Technologist With Over 30 Years Experience In Academia and Industry

At HP Laboratories  for nearly 20 years as a laboratory manager and principal laboratory scientist, served as department and laboratory manager, individual contributor, company task-force leader, consultant to divisions and customers, and member of external standards, professional and conference committees. 

Member of the Flashline SDPC, a Flashline Inc. sponsored advisory group that consults with software development organizations on productivity improvement, including areas such as using best practices, development methodologies, technology selection, and asset reuse.

Led research in several aspects of software engineering and software technology, including systematic software reuse, component-based development, software tools, software process improvement and software agents. Provided vision and technology leadership for research and consulting in agent-based context-aware, personal applications and software engineering methods, architecture and technologies.

At the University of Utah for 9 years, as tenured associate professor of Computer Science, taught software engineering and led research in software engineering, software portability, symbolic computation and compiler development, supervised MS and PhD students, and developed and distributed Portable Standard LISP.

PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, in 1971, and worked for several years as a computational physicist, developing large programs in Fortran and related languages.

Published over 50 papers, over 60 technical reports, and numerous columns, panels and tutorials on software reuse, components and agents, co-author of a respected software reuse book (reprinted in several languages), author of four book chapters and an HP reuse handbook. 

Sought after speaker and consultant inside and outside HP, delivering invited talks and tutorials on reuse and software engineering at academic, professional and industrial conferences and workshops.  Provided strategic and technical presentations, tutorials and consulting to a variety of HP customers and partners, including KLA-Tencor, StateFarm, Reuters, AT&T, LogicLibrary and Rational.

Led HP's participation in OMG Unified Modeling Language standard effort as a member of the semantics taskforce. Represented HP in the Java Community Process standardization of Java Agent Services, releasing a first step specification and reference implementation towards integration of agents and web-service technologies in Mar 2001. Served as member of the national ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee, focused on "Software Engineering as a Profession” issues in education, curriculum and accreditation, releasing a joint IEEE/ACM sponsored accreditation guideline for a BS in software engineering.