Mary Shaw is an American software engineer

Software engineer

A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...

, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

, Pittsburgh, United States.

Shaw's main area of research interest is software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

, including architectural

Software architecture

The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both...

, educational and historical aspects.

Selected publications

Mary Shaw has published several articles and books.

Books

• 1967. Computer analysis of chronological seriation. With Frank Hole.
• 1981. Software metrics: an analysis and evaluation Edited with Alan Perlis and Frederick Sayward.
• 1985. Carnegie-Mellon curriculum for undergraduate computer science. Edited by Mary Shaw.
• 1996. Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline. With David Garlan. Prentice Hall
  Prentice Hall
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Articles

• 1974. "Reduction of Compilation Costs Through Language Contraction". In: Communications of the ACM
  Communications of the ACM
  Communications of the ACM is the flagship monthly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery . First published in 1957, CACM is sent to all ACM members, currently numbering about 80,000. The articles are intended for readers with backgrounds in all areas of computer science and information...
  
  , 17(5):245–250, 1974.
• 1990. "Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software". in: IEEE Software
  IEEE Software
  IEEE Software is a broad-based practitioner-oriented magazine of IEEE Computer Society targeting software professionals, including business analysts, requirements engineers, designers, architects, developers, process improvement experts, testers, quality engineers, and project managers...
  
  , 7(6):15–24, 1990.
• 1995. "Comparing Architectural Design Styles". in: IEEE Software, 12(6):27–41, 1995.

External links

• Mary Shaw home page