Robert S. Swarz

Not to be confused with Robert S. Schwartz.

Robert S. Swarz is co-director of the Systems Engineering Practice Office of MITRE Corporation and currently part-time faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he has been teaching for over 30 years and held post of Chair of the Systems Engineering Advisory Council.[1][2] He is a co-author of a classic text in computer reliability and fault-tolerant systems[3]

Before MITRE Robert Swarz was a researcher at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was in charge of the reliability and maintainability program.[1] He is also Assistant Director for Processes for the International Council on Systems Engineering and member of the Steering Council for Dependable Systems and Networks of the IEEE, where he is a Life Member.[2]

He holds degrees in electrical engineering: B.S. and Ph.D. from New York University and M.S. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .[2]

Books

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 TCFT Candidate: Robert Swarz, IEEE Computer Society (retrieved Jan. 13 2013)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Robert S. Swarz, a WPI profile
  3. David G. Stork, "Hal's Legacy: 2001'S Computer As Dream and Reality", MIT Press, 1997 p.73
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