Paul  jokes that he has an identity crisis: his twenty-year career in industry developing, supporting, and testing telephone switching systems is now exceeded by twenty-five years of university level teaching and research. First educated as a mathematician (B.A. and M.A) in the 1960s, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1985, and promptly joined academia. He maintains active contacts with practitioners with his consultancy, Software Paradigms, and he prefers to make presentations at practitioner-oriented conferences. In his words, these contacts “keep him honest”.

Living and working in Italy for three years made him a confirmed Italophile-he travels there frequently with his wife, Carol, and their daughters Kirsten and Katia. He swims as often as he can, sails his small sailboat in the Michigan summers, and compensates for Michigan winters by going to Antigua with his family in the summer. His email address is jorgensp@gvsu.edu