Clark Savage Turner. Education. Ph.D., 1999, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Specialty: Software Engineering

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1 Clark Savage Turner Office: Department of Computer Science California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, CA (805) (FAX) (805) Education Ph.D., 1999, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Specialty: Software Engineering M.S., 1993, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine J.D., 1986, University of Maine School of Law, Portland, ME. M.A., 1981, Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. B.S., cum laude, 1979, Mathematics, King s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delta Epsilon Sigma award for scholarly achievement Aquinas award for academic excellence Bar Admissions New York 1988; Massachusetts 1988; California 1991 Teaching Experience 1999-present California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA Instructor, upper division courses in computer science (1987, 91, 98) Research Assistant in software engineering: testing, analysis, safety ( ) Teaching Assistant in a variety of computing courses ( , ) University of Southern Maine Portland, ME Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science (during tenure as law student) Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics King s College Wilkes-Barre, PA Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics

2 Related Experience Irvine Safety Group Irvine, CA Software Requirements Research as a research assistant for Professor Nancy Leveson at the University of California, Irvine. One project involved development of formal requirements for the TCAS system for the FAA Bernard, Overton & Russell Law firm Albany, NY Associate Attorney with general commercial practice Consultant to ETCC, Tyler, Texas Albany, NY Software safety consultant for one of the Therac-25 medical linear accelerator legal cases on behalf of plaintiff in warranty case. Related Interests I am an amateur radio operator since age 14, I build and repair radio transceivers as a hobby. I hold an Amateur Extra class license from the Federal Communications Commission, callsign WA3JPG. I am a proficient morse code operator and enjoy the practical aspects of worldwide shortwave communications. Research Abstract 1. Software engineering processes are inadequate to the task of producing safe, reliable systems. They always will be. This is not a new problem. However, software adds a new dimension to the problem because its unique nature renders much of the traditional engineering wisdom inapplicable. Safety constraints for artifacts of engineering processes are derived primarily from social expectations. These constraints have a powerful expression in the law of products liability. Judges and lawyers currently struggle to derive reasonable legal expectations with respect to the software artifact. Like other engineers, they have methods and tools based on models created for traditionally engineered artifacts. My first line of research questions the adequacy of the basic engineering and legal models used to address the dual problems of software safety and products liability. 2. My second line of research addresses space communication systems and software. The current trend in satellites to do more for less cost has led to a desire for Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Better space missions. This becomes more practical with the rapid advances in miniaturization, in greatly increased capability and very low power consumption. Together with Jordi Puig-Suari (Aerospace Engineering, Cal Poly) and Bob Twiggs (Aerospace, Stanford), we are working to develop and implement standards for construction and launch of "CubeSats," small satellites 4 inches on a side and less than 1 Kg in mass. We have developed a deployer mechanism based on our current standards and continue refinement for a consortium of Colleges and Universities interested in participation. Research problems for me and Cal Poly students include wireless networking between constellations of small satellites, ground systems to interface with small satellites and embedded satellite control software.

3 Publications 1. Turner, Strict Products Liability for Software Code Defects, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Law and Technology, Nov. 6-7, 2002, Cambridge, MA. 2. Nico, Turner, Kearns, The Death of the Programmer? Cal Poly State University Technical Report CPSLO-CSC-02-01, Buttschardt, Turner, Making a Case for Amateur Spectrum through Research, Education and Industry Cooperation, 20 th Space Symposium and AMSAT-NA Annual Meeting, Nov. 7-11, 2002, Ft. Worth, TX. 4. Hatalsky, J., Corwin, P., and Turner, C., The Modification Process: A Practical Means to Understand and Enhance the Software Requirements Engineering Process, Proceedings of the 6 th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Nov., 2002, Cambridge, MA. 5. Turner, C., and Fox, J.K., When Bad Code Comes From Good Specs, Proceedings of the 6 th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Nov., 2002, Cambridge, MA. 6. Puig-Suari, J., Turner, C., Twiggs, R., Cubesat: The Development and Launch Support Infrastructure for Eighteen Different Satellite Customers on One Launch, 15 th Annual AIAA/USU Small Satellite Conference, August, 2001, Logan, Utah. 7. Turner, Khosmood, Rethinking Software Process: The Key to Negligence Liability, Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Anaheim, CA., August, Stearns, Meldal, Turner, Ten Pounds in a Five Pound Sack: Providing Undergraduate Software Engineering Students with Technical Management Experience, International Conference on Engineering Education, Oslo, Norway, August, Puig-Suari, Turner, Ahlgren, Development of the Standard CubeSat Deployer and a CubeSat Class Picosatellite, IEEE Aeorspace Conference, Big Sky, MT., Turner, Risk Management for Safety-Critical Software: A Unique Problem on the Horizon, The Technology Report, A Publication of the Technology Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Spring/Summer, Turner, Richardson, Software and Strict Products Liability: Technical Challenges to Legal Notions of Responsibility, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology, October 31, 2000, San Francisco, CA. 12. Puig-Suari, Schoos, Turner, Wagner, Connolly, Block, CubeSat Developments at Cal Poly: The Standard Deployer and PolySat, Proceedings of the 45 th Annual meeting of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, July, 2000, San Diego, CA. 13. Turner, Richardson, King, Legal Sufficiency of Testing Processes, Proceedings of the 15 th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 96), Vienna, Austria, Oct, Leveson, Turner, An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, IEEE Computer, Vol. 26, no. 7, Jul, Kling, Turner, The Information Labor Force, published in Kling, Olin, Poster, Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II, UC Press, Sganga, Turner, Orange County Lawyer s Salary Survey, Orange County Lawyer, Sept, 1991.

4 Presentations 1. Underpinnings of Copyright; or, Life, Death, and Copyright, Really, Cal Poly Series on Copyright Issues, Feb. 13, Strict Products Liability for Software Code Defects, a talk delivered to the Third International Conference on Law and Technology, Nov. 6-7, Cambridge, MA Session Chair for the conference Software Requirements session. 3. Software and Strict Products Liability: Technical Challenges to Legal Notions of Responsibility, a talk delivered to the IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology, October 31, 2000, San Francisco, CA. Session Chair for the conference Copyright and Consumer Protection session. 4. CubeSat Developments at Cal Poly: The Standard Deployer and PolySat, presentation at the 45 th International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, July, 2000, San Diego, CA. 5. Legal and Economic Issues with Open Source Software, a talk delivered to the Cal Poly Linux Users Group on April 13, Software as Product: The Technical Challenge to Social Notions of Responsibility, a Computer Science Colloquium given in October of 1999 at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. 7. When Ontogeny Inverts Phylogeny, Regulation in a Fully Connected World? This panel discussion covered the implications of internet commerce; technology whose deployment preceded the chance to regulate it. The panel was held at the California Software Symposium (CSS 98), sponsored by USC CSE and UCI IRUS, October 23, 1998, Irvine, CA; 8. Liability for safety-critical software flaws presented to the Bay Area Roundtable - Irvine Research Unit in Software (IRUS), in Palo Alto, CA. on Dec. 12, Invited software engineering and law commentator during the ethics discussion at the Dec. 6, 1996 meeting of the Southern California Software Process Improvement Network sponsored by the Irvine Research Unit in Software at the University of California, Irvine. 10. Legal Sufficiency of Testing Processes - presentation of our paper to the SAFECOMP 96 conference in Vienna, Austria on Oct. 21, The Software Process and Safety-Critical Testing, presentation to the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria on Oct. 17, Invited Keynote speaker on the Legal Sufficiency of Software Testing Processes at the 9 th International Software Quality Week conference, San Francisco, May 24, Poster Presentations 1. Internalizing Risk: Making Risk Consideration a Routine Part of the Safety- Critical Software Process, California Software Symposium, (CSS 97), sponsored by IRUS and USC CSE, University of California, Irvine, Nov., Internalizing Risk: Making Risk Consideration a Routine Part of the Safety- Critical Software Process, 19 th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 97), Boston, MA. Mar., 1997.

5 Teaching philosophy Teaching is my main interest. I enjoy working with students. I teach with the expectation of hard work, some frustration, synthesis and discovery. I will work with any student willing to develop the skills necessary to master the class material. The brightest of students often challenge me to make the course worth their time and effort. I encourage these students to go beyond the standard course material. I measure my teaching success by: (1) the success of my students in mastering the basic course material and (2) their ability to use the basic material to synthesize solutions to new problems. I plan to encourage and facilitate undergraduate student research as a part of my own continuing work. I intend to maintain a rudimentary research program: (1) in order to keep my teaching relevant to current research realities and (2) to enhance student learning by involvement in basic aspects of my research. Courses Taught Structured Programming in PASCAL Object Oriented Programming in JAVA Calculus; differential, integral, multi-variate Introduction to Probability and Statistics Social Impacts of Computing Software Tools and Methods Professional Responsibilities (Software Engineering Ethics) Software Engineering I Graduate level Software Engineering Requirements Engineering