Dr. Spencer Rugaber is a retired Senior Research Scientist in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests span software engineering, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He has worked in the software development industry, in the federal government as Program Director at the U. S. National Science Foundation and in academia at Georgia Tech since 1988. Dr. Rugaber is co-author of LogiQL, a Query Language for Smart Databases, and his article on Program Understanding is included in the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. He has also authored more than 100 research papers appearing in technical journals and conference proceedings. Since retiring, Dr. Rugaber has served as an adjunct faculty member in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and as an advisor to several startup technology companies. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis, reading science fiction and learning how the universe works.