Alfs Berztiss
Associate Professor of Computer Science Emeritus
6313 SENSQ
412-624-8401
alpha@cs.pitt.edu
Dr. Berztiss received his BSc (Physics, 1956), MSc (Physics, 1959), and PhD (Theoretical Physics, 1965) from the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was a faculty member of the University of Melbourne 1957-70, and since 1970 has been with the University of Pittsburgh.
Since 1984 he has also been a research associate of SYSLAB of the University of Stockholm. Dr. Berztiss is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and belongs to ACM, IEEE, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and IFIP Working Groups 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems) and 8.3 (Decision Support Systems). He has been a consultant with UNIDO, SEI, IBM, etc.
His research interests include conceptual modeling in the reengineering of organizations, specification and prototyping of software, reliability and safety engineering, treatment of uncertain data, and curriculum development for software engineering education.





