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Appointments, Johns Hopkins University (Retired August, 1994)

                        Principal Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory

                        Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine

 Education and Degrees

                        1947-51           Rutgers University, B.S., Education

                        1954-56           Columbia University, M.A., History

                        1962-64           University of Maryland, M.A., Mathematics

Awards and Honors

                        1985                Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics

                        1988                Visiting Professor, Beijing Medical University

                        1989-90           Janney Fellow

                        1993                Lifetime Achievement Award, APL

                        1993                Janney Fellow

                        1994                Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Membership in Professional Societies

                        1964-1995       Association for Computing Machinery

                        1976-1994       IEEE Computer Society

                        1976-1994       MUMPS Users' Group

                        1985-1994       American Association for Artificial Intelligence

                        1985-               American Association for the Advancement of Science

Work and Academic Experience Summary

1952‑54 U.S. Army, Warrenton, Virginia

1955‑60 Instructor, History and Social Science

                                Fairleigh Dickinson University

                                Teaneck, New Jersey

1960‑62 Teacher, North Brunswick Public School System

                                New Brunswick, New Jersey

1962‑67 Senior Staff Mathematician

                                The Johns Hopkins University

                                Applied Physics Laboratory

                                Silver Spring, Maryland

1967‑69 Systems Analyst and Deputy Project Director

                                National Space Science Data Center

1969‑70 Manager, Information Systems Department

                                Project Director, Earth Resources Technology Satellite

1970‑73 Vice President and Manager, Information Systems Department

                                Wolf Research and Development Corporation

                                Riverdale, Maryland

1973‑74 Senior Systems Engineer

                                Fleet Command Support Center Program

                                (Assistant Program Manager), TRW Systems

                                McLean, Virginia

1974‑79 Senior Staff Mathematician

1979-94 Principal Professional Staff

                                Applied Physics Laboratory

                                Laurel, Maryland

1975‑83 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

1987-83 Assistant Professor of Oncology

1983-93 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

                                The Johns Hopkins University

                                School of Medicine

                                Baltimore, Maryland

1983-93 Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical Engineering

1984-93 Program Committee, Conference on Software Maintenance

1989-93 Associate Editor, The Journal of Systems and Software

1990-93 Member, IFIP Working Group 8.1

1990-93 Program Committee, International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (Co-chair, 1993 Program Committee)

1990-93 Associate Editor, International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering

1990-93 Editorial Board, Journal of Computer and Software Engineering

1990-93 Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems

1993-94 Program Co-chair, 4th Systems Reengineering Technology Workshop

Publication Summary

Books

  • B. I. Blum (ed.), Information Systems for Patient Care, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984.
  • B. I. Blum, Clinical Information Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986.
  • H. F. Orthner and B. I. Blum (eds.), Implementing Health Care Information Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.
  • J. P. Enterline, R. E. Lenhard and B. I. Blum (eds.), A Clinical Information System for Oncology, Springer-Verlag, NewYork, 1989.
  • B. I. Blum and K. Duncan (eds.), A History of Medical Informatics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990.
  • B. I. Blum, TEDIUM and the Software Process, MIT Press, Boston, MA, 1990.
  • B. I. Blum, Software Engineering: A Holistic View, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1992.
  • B. I. Blum, Beyond Programming, To a New Era of Design, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.

Proceedings

  • B. I. Blum (ed.) Proceedings, Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington, D.C., October 20 -  November 3, 1982.  IEEE Computer Society Press, New York, 1982.
  • B. I. Blum (ed.) SCAMC Workshop, A Framework for Medical Information Science, in Special Double Issue, Medical Informatics, (9,3/4), 1984.
  • R. Salamon, B. I. Blum, M. Jorgensen (eds.), MEDINFO‑86, 2 Volumes, North Holland, 1986.
  • ACM Conference on the History of Medical Informatics, ACM Press, New York, 1987.
  • T. Timmers and B. I. Blum, Software Engineering in Medical Informatics, North Holland, 1991.
  • Fifth International Conference in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, KSI, Skokie, IL, 1993.
  • B. I. Blum, (ed.),  Proceedings of the Fourth Systems Reengineering Technology Workshop, Research Center Report RMI-94-003, February, 1994.

Other Technical Publications

  •                 Guest Editor, 5 Journal Issues
  •                 33 Book Chapters and Articles
  •                 46 Journal Articles
  •                 95 Conference Papers
  •                 25 Abstracts
  •                 38 Other External Publications