Luanne Burns
Member of the Technical Staff
Survivable Systems Engineering Team
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contact:
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Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Luanne Burns received her M.S. in Computer Science and her Ph.D. in Cognitive
Science from Columbia University. Her dissertation work involved the design and
development of an education tool for automatically diagnosing procedural errors
in children's arithmetic using a flat-tablet display and pen interface; she
developed a neural network for handwritten character recognition and an expert
system for bug diagnosis.
Luanne was a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center for
18 years. The main focus of her work has been on user interface design and
implementation in the database, education, and internet domains. She was
involved in several research efforts at IBM that were eventually shipped as
products including Visualizer Ultimedia Query, Websphere Web Analyzer Viewer,
the IBM SchoolVista Assesement Suite, and an Olympic score reporting web
application. She has worked extensively in the online arena including website
design, programming, Flash development, database design, e-commerce, and
graphics. She teaches courses in programming, logic, and web.
Luanne’s work on the Function Extraction team has been on the user interface,
database, and graphic design. In addition to the FX tabbed interface, she is
developing the underlying repository for storing behavior catalogs and
investigating function comparison. She produced the FX video and has been
involved in the development of marketing materials.
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PhD. in Cognitive Science - Columbia University
MS in Computer Science - Columbia University
BS in Computer Science - Rochester Institute of Technology
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