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Arthur L. Price Named CSAB Fellow

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 6 August, 2009 – IEEE Computer Society member Arthur L. Price has been named a CSAB Fellow. CSAB is the lead ABET society for accrediting programs in computer science, information systems, software engineering, and information technology.

Price has been involved in computing accreditation activities for nearly all of CSAB’s 22 years. He has served as program evaluator, evaluation team chair, and leader in criteria modernization and volunteer training. From 2001 to 2007, Price was a member of ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission. He was also a member of CSAB’s Computer Science Accreditation Commission from 1991 to 2000.

Most recently, Price acted as CSAB’s vice president, an IEEE Computer Society representative director on the CSAB board, and chair of CSAB’s Training and Mentoring Committee. He is currently the adjunct accreditation director for computing at ABET.

Price has had a distinguished industrial career in software testing, software quality assurance and process management, business process reengineering, and organizational change management. He spent 20 years on the technical staff of AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories, retiring from Avaya Laboratories in 2001. In addition, he served as an assistant professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver and the University of South Florida. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

About the IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 39 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology. The Society serves the information and career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and practitioners with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, conference publications, certifications, and online courses.