Robert L. (Bob) Glass (1932) is an American software engineer and pioneer of the software field, currently serving as a visiting professor at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.
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Bob Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. He worked from 1954 to 1957 in the aerospace industry at North American Aviation, from 1957 to 1965 at Aerojet-General Corp. and from 1965 to 1982 at Boeing Company. His role was largely that of building software tools used by applications specialists.[1]
Bob Glass started his academic career in 1970, when he was working on a tools-focused research grant at the University of Washington until 1972. From 1982 to 1987 he taught in the Software Engineering graduate program at Seattle University, and spent a year at the Software Engineering Institute 1987-1988.[1]
He is the editor of the Journal of Systems and Software and also writes regular columns for Communications of the ACM and IEEE Software. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden, and in 1999 he was named a Fellow of the ACM professional society.
Glass is author of over 200 professional papers[2] and 25 books. A selection: