User:David Messerschmitt

Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Visiting Professor in the Software Business Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Visiting Researcher at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, USA

Past positions

(Starting with the most recent):

Acting and Interim Dean of the School of Information at Berkeley
Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor at Berkeley
Member of Technical Staff and Supervisor with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA.

Current research statement

My current research focuses on business and economics relevant to computing and communications technology (Berkeley), the foundations of software business (Helsinki), and interstellar communication (SETI Institute).

I am the co-author of Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press, 2003), author of Understanding Networked Applications (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999), and co-author of a widely used textbook Digital Communications (Kluwer, 1993).

Management and advisory positions

I was co-founder and former Director of TCSI Corporation of Alameda California (now a division of Rocket Software), served on the Advisory Boards of the Fisher Center for Management & Information Technology in the Haas School of Business and the Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. I served as a member of the NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, co-chaired a National Research Council (NRC) study on the future of information technology research, and served on another study on telecommunications research and development, and also served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of NRC.

Selected recent publications related to software business

David G. Messerschmitt and Bart Stuck, “The What, Why, and How of Entrepreneurship”, IEEE Signal Processing Mag., August 2008.

David G. Messerschmitt, "Rethinking components: From hardware and software to systems" (2007). Proceedings of the IEEE. 95, pp. 1473-1496. Postprint available free at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/2728.

D G. Messerschmitt and C Szyperski, "Marketplace issues in software planning and design" (2004). IEEE Software. 21 (3), pp. 62+. Postprint available free at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/2722.

D. Messerschmitt, “Back to the user”, in Raymond, E. and Messerschmitt, D., “Point-counterpoint on open-source software”,

IEEE Software Special Issue on Open Source Software, Jan-Feb 2004.

D.G. Messerschmitt and C. Szyperski, Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensible Technology and Industry, MIT Press, 2003.

Education and awards

I received a Ph.D. in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recognizing “exceptional contributions to the advancement of communication sciences and engineering”.

External links

Web homepage
Biography from Wikipedia

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