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Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is an
American software engineer, and Chief
Scientist, Software Engineering in IBM Research. Booch is best
known for developing the Unified Modeling Language
with Ivar
Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
Biography
He earned his bachelor's degree in 1977 from the United States Air Force
Academy and a master's degree in electrical
engineering in 1979 from the University of
California, Santa Barbara.[1]
He is former Chief Scientist of Rational Software (acquired by IBM on
February 20, 2003), where he worked until March 18, 2008.
Afterwards he became Chief Scientist, Software Engineering in IBM
Research, and series editor for Benjamin Cummings.
In 1995 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery. He was named an IBM Fellow in 2003, soon after his entry
into IBM, and assumed his current role in March 18, 2008.
Work
Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language
with Ivar
Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He also developed the Booch method of
software development, which he presents in his book, Object
Oriented Analysis and Design. He advises adding more classes
to simplify complex code. Booch is also an advocate of design patterns. (For
instance, he wrote the foreword to Design
Patterns, an early and highly influential book in the field.)
In the 1980s, Booch wrote one of the more popular books on
programming in Ada.
IBM 1130
Booch got his first exposure to programming on an IBM 1130.[2]
... I pounded the doors at the local IBM sales office until a
salesman took pity on me. After we chatted for a while, he handed
me a Fortran [manual]. I'm sure he gave it to me thinking, "I'll
never hear from this kid again." I returned the following week
saying, "This is really cool. I've read the whole thing and have
written a small program. Where can I find a computer?" The fellow,
to my delight, found me programming time on an IBM 1130 on weekends
and late-evening hours. That was my first programming experience,
and I must thank that anonymous IBM salesman for launching my
career. Thank you, IBM.
Booch
method
The Booch
method is a technique used in software engineering. It is object modeling language and
methodology that was widely used in object-oriented
analysis and design. It was developed by Booch while at Rational
Software.
The notation aspect of the Booch method has now been superseded
by the Unified Modeling Language
(UML), which features graphical elements from the Booch method
along with elements from the object-modeling technique
(OMT) and object-oriented
software engineering (OOSE).
Methodological aspects of the Booch method have been
incorporated into several methodologies and processes, the primary
such methodology being the Rational
Unified Process (RUP).
Publications
Grady Booch published several articles and books. A
selection:
- 1983. Software Engineering with Ada. Benjamin/Cummings.
ISBN 0-8053-0604-8.
- 1995. Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented
Project. Pearson Education. ISBN 0-8053-0594-7.
- 1999. The Unified Software Development Process. With
Ivar Jacobson
and James
Rumbaugh. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-201-57169-1.
- 2000. The Complete UML Training Course. With James
Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-087014-5.
- 2004. The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual,
Second Edition. With James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson.
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-24562-5.
- 2005. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, Second
Edition. With James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson.
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-26797-9.
- 2007. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with
Applications. Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-89551-X.
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