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Nancy Rose Mead (born in 1942) is an American computer scientist. She is known for her contributions to security, software engineering education and requirements.

Background and education

Mead spent her childhood in New Jersey, growing up in a 2nd generation Armenian immigrant family. She had an early interest in mathematics. This led to a mathematics major at New York University. from which she received a BA in mathematics and French (Honors) in 1963, and an MS in mathematics in 1967. Mead received her PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering). Her thesis, "Complexity Measures for System Design", was supervised by Stanley Preiser.

Career

Mead spent a significant part of her career at IBM (1966-1990), in software development and management of large real-time systems, software engineering technology, and software engineering education. She was named a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in 1988.

Mead’s research at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (1990-2018) was primarily in the study of software engineering and cybersecurity engineering, particularly software and security requirements, and the development of software assurance and software engineering curricula. She was the Principal Investigator and primary developer of the SQUARE method for security requirements engineering, and led the Software Assurance Curriculum Project, which included the Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum recognized by IEEE and ACM. At present, her interests are in threat modelling and supply chain risk management.

Awards and honors

She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006, and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM in 2009. The Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education, given by the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEE&T) since 2010, is named for her in honor of her leading role in establishing that conference. She was named a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 2013. In 2015 she received the Distinguished Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). In 2019 she was awarded the Parnas Fellowship by Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. In 2020 she was selected for the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program. In 2024, she was selected for the IEEE Women in Services Computing Award with Yanchun Sun of Peking University.

Publications

Mead has more than 150 publications. She has co-authored two books:

• Software Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2008)

• Cyber Security Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2016).

The following are a selection of her most-cited papers:

• R Wieringa, N Maiden, N Mead, C Rolland. "Requirements engineering paper classification and evaluation criteria: a proposal and a discussion", Requirements engineering 11 (1), 102-107
• NR Mead, T Stehney, "Security quality requirements engineering (SQUARE) methodology", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 30 (4), 1-7
• RJ Ellison, DA Fisher, RC Linger, HF Lipson, TA Longstaff, NR Mead, "Survivability: Protecting your critical systems", IEEE Internet Computing 3 (6), 55-63,
• RJ Ellison, RC Linger, T Longstaff, NR Mead, "Survivable network system analysis: A case study", IEEE software 16 (4), 70-77

References

1. ^ Nancy R. Mead at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ "Nancy R Mead - Lero The Irish Software Research Centre".
3. "Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE)". Carnegie Mellon University. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
4. "Software Assurance Curriculum Project Volume I: Master of Software Assurance Reference Curriculum". Carnegie Mellon University. 31 July 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
5. "IEEE Fellows Directory Nancy Mead". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
6. "Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
7. "Mead Named SEI Fellow". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
8. "2015 IEEE CS TCSE Software Engineering Distinguished Education Award Nancy Mead". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
9. "Nancy Mead 2020–2022 Distinguished Speaker". 30 January 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
10. "IEEE TCSVC Awards". Activities. IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Services Computing. 2024.
11. "DBLP Nancy R. Mead". Retrieved 19 January 2021.
12. Allen J, Barnum S, Ellison R, McGraw G, Mead, N (2008). Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780321509178.
13. Mead, Nancy; Woody, Carol (2017). Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780134189802.
14. ""Google Scholar Nancy Mead"". Retrieved 19 January 2021.

External links

• Nancy Mead at Carnegie Mellon University

• 1942 births
• Living people
• IBM employees
• American software engineers
• American computer scientists
• New York University alumni
• Carnegie Mellon University faculty
• Fellows of the IEEE