Barry BoehmBarry W. Boehm (1935)

鲍伊姆(Barry Boehm),美国国家工程院院士，AIAA、IEEE、ACM会员。从1955年开始，他一直致力于为软件开发的敏捷和规范找到平衡点。目前，他担任TRW公司软件教授级工程师和南加州大学软件工程中心主任。过去，他曾担任过DARPA信息科学与技术中心主管和TRW公司首席科学家。Boehm博士对软件领域做出了杰出贡献，其中包括COCOMO模型(Constructive Cost Model)、软件过程中的螺旋模型(Spiral Model)、适用于软件管理和需求决断的w理论(win-win)，以及经典著作《软件工程经济学》。

Barry W. Boehm

Barry BoehmBarry W. Boehm (1935) is an American software engineer, TRW Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California, and known for his many contributions to software engineering.

Barry Boehm received his B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1957, and his M.S. in 1961, and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1964, all in mathematics.

Boehm has worked as educator and researcher for many years. From 1955 to 1959 he was a Programmer-Analyst at General Dynamics, and from 1959 to 1973 as Head of the Information Sciences Department at the Rand Corporation. From 1973 to 1989 he worked at TRW Inc. as Chief Scientist of the Defense Systems Group, and from 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.[1] Ever since he is TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department, and Director, USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering, formerly Center for Software Engineering.

He has served on the board 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.

Recent awards for Barry Boehm include the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence in 1992, the ASQC Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, and the ACM Distinguished Research Award in Software Engineering in 1997. He is an AIAA Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 2005.

Boehm's research interests include software development process modeling, software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics and cost models, software engineering environments, and knowledge-based software engineering.

Boehm was the first to identify software as the primary expense of future computer systems. His further 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 and two advanced software engineering environments: the TRW Software Productivity System and Quantum Leap Environment.