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1 February 2006

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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -- Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of IBM Rational, has been named as a 2006 recipient of the international Stevens Award and will give the Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods.

The presentation will take place on Monday afternoon, 1 May 2006 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA as the opening general session of the Joint Services Systems and Software Technology Conference (SSTC 2006), which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The international Stevens Award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The lecture presentations focus on lessons learned and challenges, with an emphasis on advancing or analyzing the state of software methods and their direction for the future.

This prestigious award lecture is named in memory of Wayne Stevens (1944-1993), a highly-respected consultant, author, pioneer, and advocate of the practical application of software methods and tools. His 1974 IBM Systems Journal article "Structured Design" was the first published on the topic and has been widely reprinted. Stevens was the author of the books: Software Design: Concepts and Methods (Prentice-Hall Intl, 1991) and Using Structured Design (Wiley, 1981). His last article "Data Flow Analysis and Design" appears in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (Wiley, 1994). Stevens was the chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group.

 
Grady Booch

Grady Booch will be recognized for "his fundamental leadership in advanced software design and in the unification of development methods and their practical implementation".

He is an IBM Fellow and has been with IBM Rational as its Chief Scientist since Rational's founding in 1981. He is one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and of several of Rational's products. He has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive projects around the world.

Mr. Booch is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published several hundred technical articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design.

He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He is an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, and a Software Development Forum Visionary. He was also a founding board member of the Agile Alliance, the Hillside Group, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, as well as serving on the advisory board of Northface University. Mr. Booch received his bachelor of science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.

Previous Stevens Award Recipients

The 12 prior recipients of the Stevens Award are:

• Mary Shaw (2005), instrumental in the foundations of software architecture and software engineering education (USA);
• Jim Highsmith (2005), advocate and promoter of agile and adaptive methods in software development and project management;
• François Bodart (2004), research leader in practical applications of systems development technologies (Belgium);
• Manny Lehman (2003), authority on software evolution (United Kingdom);
• Cordell Green (2002), founder and chairman of Kestrel Institute (USA);
• Peter Chen (2001), advocate of entity-relationship modeling (USA);
• Gerald Weinberg (2000), noted author on understanding how people and software technology work together (USA);
• Tom DeMarco (1999), principal of Atlantic Systems Guild and noted analyst and authority on software project management, methods, and people processes (USA);
• Tom McCabe (1998), software metrics expert and creator of cyclomatic complexity analysis (USA);
• Michael Jackson (1997), creator of the Jackson Software Development methods (United Kingdom);
• David Harel (1996), professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and founder of i-Logix and the Statemate toolset; and,
• Tony Wasserman (1995), founder and chairman of Interactive Development Environments and researcher on software tools (USA).

   
  

 
Reference web sites:

SSTC conference: http://www.sstc-online.org/about.cfm
Grady Booch: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/booch.html
Stevens Award: http://reengineer.org/stevens/

Stevens Award Founders (IWCASE):
     Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA
     Elliot Chikofsky, Engineering Management and Integration, USA
     François Coallier, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
     Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
     David Budgen, Keele University, UK
     Gene Hoffnagle, IBM Corporation, USA
     Paul Layzell, University of Manchester, UK
     Danny Poo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
     Jos Trienekens, Technical Univ Eindhoven, Netherlands
     June Verner, National ICT Australia

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