William Opdyke

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William F. (Bill) Opdyke is a computer scientist. His 1992 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks, was the first in-depth study of code refactoring as a software engineering technique.[1] Opdyke has worked as a researcher at Bell Labs,[2] as a computer science professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois,[2] and for Motorola in Schaumberg, Illinois.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fowler, Martin; Beck, Kent (1999), Refactoring: improving the design of existing code, The Addison-Wesley object technology series, Addison-Wesley, p. 415, ISBN 9780201485677.
  2. ^ a b Biography as a panelist at OOPSLA 2005, retrieved 2010-04-27.
  3. ^ Affiliation listed as an organizer of the Third ACM Workshop on Refactoring Tools (WRT'09), retrieved 2010-04-27.

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