Areas of Expertise

Employment Experience

• Edward F. Miller is Chairman and CEO of Software Research, Inc. (SR) of San Francisco, California. He is a leading figure in the software engineering community, specializing in advanced technology for software testing, software verification and validation, automated software tool design, and software engineering management.
• At Software Research he has from 1999 supervised development and worldwide deployment of the eValid Web Test & Analysis Suite, a system for automated web application analysis, testing and quality assurance. This developmented resulted in U.S. Patent #7,231,606 (12 June 2007).
• Prior to 1999 he supervised development and worldwide deployment for the highly successful Software TestWorks system of automated software test tools for UNIX and Windows platforms.

Summary

• Dr. Miller has extensive experience in all phases of software engineering, with specialties in Software Testing and Quality Assurance, Automated Testing Tools, Web Testing and Qualification Tools, and Programming Technology.

Education

• Ph. D. (Electrical Engineering), University of Maryland.
  
• M.S. (Applied Mathematics), University of Colorado.
  
• B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Iowa State University.

Recent Experience

• Dr. Miller was Director, Software Technology Center, Science Applications, Inc., San Francisco, California. While in that position he supervised development of advanced concept testing and quality assurance tools and directed a number of studies of various software engineering topics.
• Dr. Miller was Director, Program Validation Project, at General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, California.
• Dr. Miller was a Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, with responsibilities for courses in information structures, operating systems, and computer performance evaluation.
• Dr. Miller was Instructor of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught courses in computer programming, algorithmic methods, computer architecture, numerical analysis, switching and automata theory, and other basic Electrical Engineering curriculum courses.

Expert Witness Experience

• Expert Witness for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto, California) in re Parasoft v. Agitar CV05-4465PA (C.D.Ca). 2005. Disposition: Settled before trial.
• Expert Witness for Weisbrod & Dankov, Attorneys (Dayton, Ohio), in re Ladd Industries v. Accunet. 2004. Disposition: Settled before trial.
• Expert Witness for Haight Brown & Bonesteel, Santa Ana, California, in re Aurora Merchant Services L.L.C. v. Solomon Software, Inc. (Case CV 01-4166 RSWL (AJWx). 2002-2003. Disposition: Settled before trial.
• Deposition as a witness for the Plaintiff, for Fenwick & West (Palo Alto, California & San Jose, California), in re Performix vs. Mercury Interactive. 1997. Disposition: Settled before trial.

Professional Conferences

• General Chair, International Software Quality Week, San Francisco, California, 1988 through 2002 (15 conferences).
• General Chair, International Software Quality Week/Europe held in Brussels, Belgium from 1998 through 2002 (5 conferences).
• General Chair, 7th Annual EDP Quality Assurance Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1988.
• General Chair, 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, San Jose Convention Center, November 1985.
• Program Chair, IEEE/NBS Workshop on Software Testing and Test Documentation, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 1978.

Professional Activities

• Board of Trustees, Center for National Software Studies (CNSS), 1996-.
• NSF's Building Resources Board's Committee for Evaluation and Testing of Software 1986-1987.
• Editorial Board of IEEE's Software magazine, 1984-1986.
• National Academy of Sciences/USAF Studies Board, Task Force for Improving Software Quality and Life Cycle Cost 1983-1984.
• Editorial Board for the IEEE's Computer, 1978-1984.
• Editor of CAN, ACM SIGARCH's Computer Architecture News, 1980-1983.
• Member of the Board of Directors of SIGARCH, 1979-1983.

Publications

• Software Testing and Validation Techniques (with William E. Howden).
• Automated Software Engineering Tools.
• Over 50 publications.

Honors and Appointments

• Industrial Advisory Board, Iowa State University, 1996-2005.
• Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE), Iowa State University, 1994.
• Board of Directors, National Software Council. 1996.