I'm a senior staff scientist with the Standards and Conformance Testing Group of the Software and Systems Division, part of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the direction of the Department of Commerce.
I'm the leader of the DASE Conformance Testing Project at NIST, working with the Digital TV Application Software Environment (DASE) committee of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) to develop effective conformance tests for the emerging DASE standard. DASE provides specifications for software modules that decode and execute application programs that deliver interactive and data broadcast services, within the context of digital TV. The DASE committee is a broad-based industry consortium with members from the broadcast, consumer electronics, software, and other sectors. I chair a subcommittee, the DASE Conformance Testing team.
My interests include several other areas of information and software technology, particularly new approaches to developing conformance tests, software testing tools, information repository technology, and data administration.
Recently, I developed a Java version of the Unravel program slicing tool, and conformance tests for implementations of Role Based Access Control (RBAC) on the World Wide Web. Before that, I was the leader of the NIST/ITL project investigating the automated generation of conformance tests and did a preliminary investigation of alternatives to falsification testing.
For a long time I was the leader of the NIST effort to develop voluntary and Federal Information Processing Standards for the Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) and other open repository systems.
I maintain the X3L8 Anonymous FTP Server that supports both Technical Committee L8, Data Representation of the National Committee on Information Technology Standards, and the broader data representation community. I'm also on the editorial board of the NIST Journal of Research.
Before coming to NIST in 1979 (actually, it was still the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) then), I worked at the U.S. Census Bureau. Prior to that I taught Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
I received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from the City College of New York in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. I'm a 1962 graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
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Dr. Alan H. Goldfine
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information Technology Laboratory
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970
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(Email) Alan Goldfine.
Last updated: January 10, 2000.