Researchers, educators, and experts in Software Architecture and related topics.
Boehm, Barry - Currently the TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software Engineering. His current research interests include software process modeling, software requirements engineering, software architectures, software metrics
and cost models, software engineering environments, and knowledge-based software engineering. 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.
Booch, Grady - Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling. He is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML, has authored six professional books and published hundreds of papers on software engineering. This URL takes you to his bio which also has contact information.
Bredemeyer, Dana - Mr. Bredemeyer is the president of Bredemeyer Consulting, and specializes in software architecture training and mentoring. He has over 20 years experience architecting, designing, and developing software systems, including 16 years with Hewlett-Packard. He developed Hewlett-Packard's internal Software Architecture Workshop and continues to be its principle instructor. He has provided architecture consulting and training to architects, architecture teams and their management at the project, organization, and business levels. He has helped teams develop software, firmware, and system architectures for products, product families, and information systems. dana@bredemeyer.com
Brooks, Frederick P. - Dr. Brooks is a true icon in computer technology. He was the first to coin the term computer architecture in 1957. In 1964, Dr. Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years. Currently, he is Kenan Professor of Computer Science. His principal research is in real-time, three dimensional, computer graphics--"virtual environments". His research has helped biochemists solve the structure of complex molecules and enabled architects to "walk through" buildings still being designed. He is pioneering the use of force display to supplement visual graphics.
He is the author of two important books The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering and Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution as well as the well-known 1986 paper, "No Silver Bullet."
Charvat, Jason - Jason P. Charvat is an accomplished project management consultant with extensive international experience in information technology projects. Jay is a senior manager for RCG Information Technology, a national IT professional services company based in Edison N.J. , specializing in IT design, development, integration, and project management. He is the author of Project Management Nation and Project Management Methodologies. He is active in the measurement field.
Clements, Paul C - Dr. Clements worked for the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. There, he participated in (and eventually led) the Software Cost Reduction or "A-7" project. SCR produced and validated a methodology for hard-real-time embedded software development for systems with long life-cycles by re-designing and re-implementing the avionics software for the Navys A-7E aircraft. SCR pioneered techniques in modular software design, requirements engineering and specification, software architecture and architectural structures, interface specification and documentation, and real-time performance engineering. He currently works for the SEI at CMU.
Gacek, Cristina - Cristina Gacek is a PhD candidate of the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California. She has received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (Rio de Janeiro-RJ-Brazil) in 1989, a MSc in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy-NY-USA) in 1992, and a MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles-CA-USA) in 1995. Between 1988 and 1991, she worked as a systems analyst for IBM Brazil. Her current research interests include software architecture theory, as well as its relation with reengineering and reuse-based software engineering. gacek@usc.edu
Garlan, David - David Garlan is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads several research projects and is the Director of Professional Software Engineering Programs. His research
interests include software architecture, pervasive computing, self-healing systems, applied formal methods, and software development environments.
Holcman, Samuel - Samuel Holcman is a recognized expert in the area of business process engineering, Enterprise Architecture implementation, and architect of the highly regarded Foresight methodology and methodology management product. Mr. Holcman is president of Pinnacle Business Group whose focus is on helping organizations change their processes, strategies, cultures, and technologies to meet today’s challenges as well as those of the next century. He is also widely recognized as an informative and visionary speaker whose implementation successes lend credibility and value to the content he provides. Mr. Holcman is president of ZIFA.
Jalote, Pankaj - Pankaj Jalote has recently joined Department of Computer Science and Engineering at I.I.T. Delhi as Microsoft Chair Professor. Before this he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur since 1989, where he was also the Head of the Department from 1998 to 2002. Earlier he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he also held joint appointment in the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies. From 1996 to 1998, he was Vice President (quality) at Infosys Technologies Ltd., a large Bangalore-based company providing software solutions worldwide, where he spearheaded Infosys' successful move to high maturity levels of the CMM. From 2003 to 2004 he was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA.
He is the author of CMM in Practice , (Addison Wesley, 1999), a book that has been translated in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean; Software Project Management in Practice (Addison Wesley, Feb 2002); the highly popular textbook An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, (Springer 1991, 2nd Edition 1996, 3rd Edition 2005), whose Indian edition was recognized as the best selling book in computer science by its local publisher; and the graduate-level book Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems , (Prentice Hall, 1994). He is on the Board of Advisors of many software companies in India and USA, is a Technical Advisory Board member for Microsoft Research, India, and is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and International Journal of Emperical Software Engineering.
Miller, Ed - Edward Miller founded the Software Research, Inc. in 1977. Through his long affiliation in the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Dr. Miller has authored several revisions of software testing and automated tools books, and has chaired many technical conferences including the Quality Week conference series begun in 1988. He has been a Distinguished ACM Lecturer, was a regular IEEE Tutorial Leader, and has been a frequent contributor to technical publications and conferences.
Miller has held a number of professional positions, has served on a variety of conference technical program committees, is a frequent conference keynote speaker, and recently has been involved in the US software technology arena as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Software Council. That organization's successor, The Center for National Software Studies also elected Miller to its Board of Directors.
Rothman, Johanna - Johanna Rothman is President of Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. and has written articles about defining and using inch-pebbles, and provides consulting services as well.
Royce, Walker - Walker Royce is the vice president of IBM Worldwide Rational Lab Services. He joined Rational in 1994 and served as vice president of professional services from 1997 through the IBM acquisition in 2003. Over the past ten years, he has managed large software engineering projects, consulted with a broad spectrum of IBM Rational clients worldwide, and developed a software management approach based on an iterative development and delivery lifecycle, industry best practices, and architecture-first priorities.
Taylor, Richard N. - Richard N. Taylor is a Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine and chair of the Department of Informatics. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980. His research interests are centered on software architectures, especially event-based and peer-to-peer systems and the way they scale across organizational boundaries. Professor Taylor is the Director of the Institute for Software Research , which is dedicated to fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies through partnerships with industry and government. He has served as chairman of ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, SIGSOFT, chairman of the steering committee for the International Conference on Software Engineering , and was general chair of the 1999 International Joint Conference on Work Activities, Coordination, and Collaboration. Taylor was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 1998 was recognized as an ACM Fellow .
Wolf, Alexander L. - Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (UK), where he serves as Head of the Distributed Software Engineering Research Section. He also holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (US), and the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano (CH).
Zachman, John - ohn Zachman is one of the the leading experts in the world on Enterprise Architecture, and author of he internationally renowned Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Mr. Zachman authored the Framework in the 1980’s and has conducted seminars worldwide on its use and implementation since. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture is widely accepted as the definitive work in this field and Mr. Zachman is recognized on every continent as an insightful and informative speaker. John Zachman is also well known for his early contribution to IBM’s information planning methodology, Business Systems Planning. After a 26-year career at IBM, he now operates Zachman International, an information systems planning and education consulting practice and is chairman of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA).
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