Timothy Christian Lethbridge

Timothy Christian Lethbridge (born 1963) is a British/Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Ottawa, known for his contributions in the fields of software engineering, knowledge management and computer animation, and the development of Umple.

Biography Born in London in 1963, Lethbridge grew up in Denmead and attended St John's College in Portsmouth until he immigrated with his family to Canada in 1975. He received his BSc in 1985 and his MSc in 1987 in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick. In 1994, he received his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Ottawa under supervision of Douglas Skuce for a thesis about tools for knowledge management, entitled "Practical Techniques for Organizing and Measuring Knowledge." He specializes in "Human Computer Interaction, Software Modeling, UML, Object Oriented Design, Software Engineering Education".

Publications Lethbridge published one textbook and over 100 articles. Books: 1994. Practical Techniques for Organizing and Measuring Knowledge. phd thesis, University of Ottawa. 2001. Object Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java. With Robert Laganière. 2nd ed. 2005.

Articles, a selection: Anquetil, Nicolas, and Timothy C. Lethbridge. "Experiments with clustering as a software remodularization method." Reverse Engineering, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth Working Conference on. IEEE, 1999. Lethbridge, Timothy C. "What knowledge is important to a software professional?." Computer 33.5 (2000): 44-50. Forward, Andrew, and Timothy C. Lethbridge. "The relevance of software documentation, tools and technologies: a survey." Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering. ACM, 2002. Lethbridge, Timothy C., Janice Singer, and Andrew Forward. "How software engineers use documentation: The state of the practice." IEEE Software 20.6 (2003): 35-39. Lethbridge, Timothy C., Susan Elliott Sim, and Janice Singer. "Studying software engineers: Data collection techniques for software field studies." Empirical Software Engineering 10.3 (2005): 311-341.