Professional interests include both teaching and scholarship (consisting of published work and professional activities). If there is a general theme to Adam's scholarship, it is in reducing the level of frustration involved in dealing with computers. Areas of interest include methodologies that produce more reliable and easier to maintain software, computer science education, fault-tolerant systems, human-computer interfaces that are sufficiently simple that the average person can use them, without having to consult a manual, and the relationship between computing and Christianity