Marvin Zelkowitz

Marvin Victor Zelkowitz is an American computer scientist and engineer.
Zelkowitz earned a degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a master's degree and doctorate in computer science at Cornell University in 1969 and 1971, respectively.
He then taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. While holding a professorship within the Department of Computer Science and
the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, he
was also affiliated with the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, since renamed The Fraunhofer USA Center Mid-Atlantic. He is now Professor Emeritus, having retired in 2007.
His early research was in programming languages. He worked on implementation of programming language features to aid in program development and debugging as well as ways to implement tests for runtime correctness of executable code.
His later research dealt with software engineering practices by looking at developing methods for improving the process of software development.
The years 2003-2009 were devoted to applying these experimental testing results to the field of High-performance computing.