Roy Rada
Roy F Rada (born June 13, 1951) is a professor emeritus whose research in computer science and information systems appeared in journal articles from 1979 till 2022. Early life and education Rada was born in Vienna, Austria in 1951. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a B.Sc. in Psychology, from Baylor College of Medicine in 1977 with a M.D., and from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Rada was licensed to practice medicine from 1977 to 1988. Career Rada worked with Michael Conrad at Wayne State University from 1981 to 1983. He worked at the National Institutes of Health from 1983 to 1988 where he was chief of the Medical Subject Headings Section of the National Library of Medicine and editor of Index Medicus. From 1988 to 1995 he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. From 1995 to 1998 he was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Software Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Rada was the first director of the Online Masters in Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that was launched on Blackboard in 1999, and he retired in 2015