In this talk I will tell some stories from my career and try to draw some lessons for academics about making an impact.

I am a Professor, and Chair of the University of Central Florida’s Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science division.

Research Interests: Programming and specification language design and semantics, formal methods (program specification and verification), aspect-oriented languages, object-oriented languages, distributed languages, type theory, programming methodology, software engineering, information assurance, computer science education.