Background
Adrion, William Richards was born on November 2, 1943 in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. Son of Vernon Richards and Mary Leone (Carlock) Adrion.
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Adrion, William Richards was born on November 2, 1943 in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. Son of Vernon Richards and Mary Leone (Carlock) Adrion.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1966, Master of Engineering, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1971. Computer engineer Honeywell electronic data processing, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969-1970.
Assistant professor of University Texas, Austin, 1971-1972.
Area chairman, assistant professor Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1972-1978. Program director National Science Foundation, Washington, 1976-1978, 80-85dep. division director, 1985-1986, chief scientist computer research, 1986.
Group manager National Bureau Standards, 1978-1980. Professor, chairman computer science U. Mass, Amherst, 1986-1995, director Center Realtime Intelligent Complex Computing Sys.
Chairman of the Board, president Applied Computing Sys.
Institute of Massachusetts, Incorporated., 1989, Applied Computing Sys. Institute of Massachusetts, Incorporated. laboratories, 1990. Cons.Applied Theory Associations, Corvallis, 1973-1978, Tektronix, Portland, Oregon, 1974-1976, Lawrence Livermore laboratories, 1985-1988, Radio Free Europe Radio Station Liberty, Munich, Federal Republic Germany, 1981-1982.
Professor, lecturer Am.U., Washington, 1976-1977.
Lecturer George Washington University, Washington, 1978. Visiting professor University of California-Berkeley, 1984-1985, U. Paris-Sud, 1992.
Adjunct.research professor Georgetown University, 1985-1986. General chair international conference onSoftware Engineering 94, 97.
Computer engineer Honeywell electronic data processing, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969—1970. Assistant professor University Texas, Austin, 1971—1972. Area chairman, assistant professor Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1972—1978.
Program director National Science Foundation, Washington, 1976—1978, 1980—1985, deputy division director, 1985—1986, chief scientist computer research, 1986, division director, 2000—2002, senior advisor, 2002—2003. Group manager National Bureau Standards, 1978—1980. Professor University Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1986, chairman computer science, 1986—1994, director Center Realtime Intelligent Complex Computing Systems, 1988—1999.
Director RIPPLES Group, since 1996. Co-director Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative, since 2004. Director Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education, since 2007.
Co-chair, education and outreach Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center, since 2010. Consultant Applied Theory Associates, Corvallis, 1973-1978. Consultant Tektronix, Portland, Oregon, 1974-1976.
Professor, lecturer American University, Washington, 1978. Consultant Radio Free Europe Radio Station Liberty, Munich, 1981-1982. Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1984-1985.
Consultant Lawrence Livermore (California) Laboratories, 1985-1988. Adjunct research professor Georgetown University, 1985-1986. Chairman board directors, president Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Inc., 1989-1999, Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Inc.
Laboratories, 1990-1999. Founder, editor-in-chief, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 1989-1995. Chair-elect, chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science Section T: Information and Computing Science, 1998-2001.
Visiting professor, University Paris-Sud, 1992—1993. Board dirs, Computing Research Association 1987-1996. Member National Science Foundation/CISE advisory committee, 1995-1998.
Ex-Officio member board director The National Library Medicine 2000-2002. Technical consultant, advisory council, National Institute Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2001-2002. General chair Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundation Software Engineering, 1994.
General chair 19th International Conference Software Engineering, 1997. Steering communications co-chair, 1st Master of Arts Technology Conference Telecommunications, 1994. Organizer, National Science Foundation/CRA Workshop Research Infrastructure, 1991.
Program Chair, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/CRB Conference on Strategic Directions in Computing, 1989.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association Computing Machinery (editor-in-chief Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery) transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 1989-1995). Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, New York Academy Sciences, Computer Research Association (director) 1988, chairman government operations 1990-1994), CSNET (Executive Committee 1986-1989), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Jacqueline Cotner, July 3, 1971. Children; Carrie Buchanan, Emily Richards.