James E. Tomayko D.A., Carnegie Mellon University Dr. James E. Tomayko is a teaching professor at the SCS at Carnegie Mellon and a part-time senior member of the technical staff of the SEI. He is the director of the MSE Program in SCS. Dr. Tomayko directs the Software Development Studio for the MSE Program. Previously he was leader of the Academic Education Project at SEI. Prior to that, he founded the software engineering graduate program at the Wichita State University. He has worked in industry through employee, contract or consulting relationships with NCR, NASA, Being Defense and Space Group, CarnegieWorks, Xerox, the Westinghouse Energy Center, Keithley Instruments and Mycro-Tek. He has given seminars and lectures on software fault tolerance, software development management and software process improvement in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Great Britain, and Brazil. Tomayko's courses on managing software development and overviews of software engineering are among the most widely distributed courses in the SEI Academic Series. Tomayko has had a parallel career in the history of technology, specializing in the history of computing in aerospace, and has written three books and two articles on spacecraft computer systems and software, concentrating primarily on NASA's systems. For the last eight years he has researched the history of fly-by-wire technology, and has published three papers on the subject. Dr. Tomayko is on the editorial staff of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

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