Curriculum Vitae for Paul E. Black

Personal Data

• Name: Paul E. Black
• Title: Computer Scientist
• Mailing Address:
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970
  Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8970
  USA
• Office: building 222, room B330
• Telephone: +1 301 975 4794
  Fax: +1 301 975 6097
• E-mail: paul.black@nist.gov

I work in the Information Systems Group, Software and Systems Division of the Information Technology Laboratory in NIST. NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department.

My current projects are

• Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE)
• Editor for the Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (DADS)

Here are pages with links to on-line copies of my published papers

Education

• Ph.D., 1998, Brigham Young University, Dissertation: Axiomatic Semantics Verification of a Secure Web Server
• M.S. Computer Science, 1983, University of Utah, Software Emphasis
• B.S., 1973, Southern Utah State College, Major - Mathematics, Minor - Computer Science/Physics

Professional Positions

Sep 97 - Present NIST

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899

Computer Scientist

Jan 94 - Aug 97 Brigham Young University

Laboratory for Applied Logic

PO Box 26576, Provo, Utah 84602-6576

Research & Teaching Assistant

Sep 92 - Dec 93 UC Berkeley

Dept. of Computer Science, Berkeley, California

Teaching Assistant

Sep 91 - Oct 93 MetaSoftware

1300 White Oaks Rd, Campbell, California

Software Engineering Consultant

Jan 92 - Aug 92 Delfin Systems

3000 Patrick Henry Dr, Santa Clara, California 95054

Staff Engineer

Jul 84 - Aug 91 Cirrus Logic (contract after Oct 90)

3100 Warren Ave, Fremont, California 94538

Software Project Manager/Senior Programmer

Sep 83 - Jul 84 ESL

495 Java Dr, PO Box 3510, Sunnyvale, California 94088-3510

Software Engineer

Jan 82 - Sep 83 Patil Systems (Cirrus Logic)

391 Chipeta Way Suite C, Salt Lake City, UT 84108

Programmer

Nov 77 - Jan 82 Sentinel Security Life Insurance Company

2121 South State, Salt Lake City, UT 84115

Data Processing Supervisor/Programmer

Professional Societies

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, life senior member
• IEEE Computer Society

General

• I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil.
• Eagle Scout
• Knowledge of Portuguese, Spanish, and American Sign Language
• Married, 4 children
• Amateur Radio License KC7PKT, Technician Class

Finished Projects

• Taught Scientific Programming - C (CS130) at BYU.
• Taught Data Structures (605) at Johns Hopkins.

Other, Less Directed Links

I've put together some web sites and collections. Here are some I'm especially happy with and links to other miscellaneous on-line stuff of mine.

• My HTML table quick reference, codes for symbols and letters, and layout and page codes, like <!-- . . . --> for comments and <ul> . . . </ul> for bullet lists.
• My Erdös number.

Updated Tue Dec 8 18:45:38 2020

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