Barry Boehm

Barry W. Boehm, TRW Professor of Software Engineering and Director Emeritus, Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California.

Barry Boehm received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1957, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1961 and 1964, all in Mathematics. He also received an honorary Sc.D. in Computer Science from the U. of Massachusetts in 2000.

Between 1989 and 1992, he served within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) as Director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office, and as Director of the DDR&E Software and Computer Technology Office. He worked at TRW from 1973 to 1989, culminating as Chief Scientist of the Defense Systems Group, and at the Rand Corporation from 1959 to 1973, culminating as Head of the Information Sciences Department. He was a Programmer-Analyst at General Dynamics between 1955 and 1959. 

His current research interests focus on value-based software engineering, including a method for integrating a software system's process models, product models, property models, and success models called Model-Based (System) Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE).  His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO™), the Spiral Model of the software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination, the foundations for the areas of software risk management and software quality factor analysis, and two advanced software engineering environments: the TRW Software Productivity System and Quantum Leap Environment.  

He has served on the boards of several scientific journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, ACM Computing Reviews, Automated Software Engineering, Software Process, and Information and Software Technology. He has served as Chair of the AIAA Technical Committee on Computer Systems, Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering, and as a member of the Governing Board of the IEEE Computer Society. He has also served as Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board's Information Technology Panel, Chair of the NASA Research and Technology Advisory Committee for Guidance, Control, and Information Processing, and Chair of the Board of Visitors for the CMU Software Engineering Institute.

His honors and awards include Guest Lecturer of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970), the AIAA Information Systems Award (1979), the J.D. Warnier Prize for Excellence in Information Sciences (1984), the ISPA Freiman Award for Parametric Analysis (1988), the NSIA Grace Murray Hopper Award (1989), the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence (1992), the ASQC Lifetime Achievement Award (1994), the ACM Distinguished Research Award in Software Engineering (1997), and the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award (2000). He is a Fellow of the primary professional societies in computing (ACM), aerospace (AIAA), electronics (IEEE), and systems engineering (INCOSE), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Abhi Deshmukh

Prior to coming to Purdue, Dr. Deshmukh was the Rockwell International Professor and director of the Institute for Manufacturing Systems at Texas A&M University. He was a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2004-2007, and served as a program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Engineering Directorate and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, has received the NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration, the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award and the Milton C. Shaw Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and was a Lilly Teaching Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Barry Horowitz

Dr. Horowitz is the director for the UVa research site of the National Science Foundation sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Re- search Center called WICAT (Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology). Prior to UVa, he was president and CEO of the MITRE Corporation. He received the Air Force’s highest award for a civilian, is a member of the National Acad- emy of Engineering, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies, and was awarded the AFCEA Gold Medal of Engineering in 1990. Dr. Horowitz is currently serving as a member of the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Academy of Science, and has participated as a panel mem- ber on a variety of studies conducted by the Defense Science Board, the Army Science Board and the National Academy of Engineering.

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William Rouse

Dr. William B. Rouse joined the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens as the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in fall 2012. He joined the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology as the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in fall 2012.

Dr. Rouse is a researcher, educator, author and entrepreneur. His current positions include Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, Professor Emeritus in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and principal of Rouse Associates, LLC. His earlier positions include Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute, Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two innovative software companies – Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology – and earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with well over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His current research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare, energy and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis. Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council and National Academies. Rouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jon Wade

Dr. Wade is a distinguished service professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises, and serves as the president and founder of AgilePower Systems, Inc. where he performs research in the development of hybrid solar power technologies. Wade was the executive vice president of engineering at International Game Technology (IGT). Before joining IGT, Wade spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, during which time he managed the development of the UltraSPARC V based Enterprise Server family and served as the product manager for high-performance interconnects. Prior to this, he led new system development at Thinking Machines Corporation. In addition to his publications, Wade has received 11 patents in the areas of integrated circuits, computer architecture, networked systems and internal combustion engines.

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