Gerald Bortis

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science with a concentration on Informatics. My advisor is André van der Hoek and my research area is software engineering and human-computer interaction. I also graduated from UC Irvine in 2005 with a B.S. in Information and Computer Science.

Research

My research interests include software engineering and architecture, software visualization, HCI, learnable interfaces, and CSCW. Many of these interests are combined in the Dashboard project.

Publications

None yet.

Teaching

I am not the TA for any classes this quarter.

Classes

Fall 2005:	ICS 200, ICS 205 (Redmiles), ICS 230 (Nardi), ICS 398A (Kay)
Winter 2006:	ICS 221 (Sim), ICS 229 (Redmiles), ICS 235A (Dourish)

Contact

E-mail:	gbortis [AT] ics [DOT] uci [DOT] edu
AIM:	gbortis

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."

— Seymour Cray

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

— C.A.R. Hoare

"First you listen to the users; then you ignore them."

— Ken Arnold

"Improve yourself."

— Stephen Quirk