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Barry Boehm

Also Known As Barry W. Boehm · Barry William Boehm
Software And Its Engineering

Barry Boehm was an American software engineer and professor at the University of Southern California who created the Constructive Cost Model, known as COCOMO, a widely used mathematical method for estimating software development effort from a projects expected size, described in his 1981 book Software Engineering Economics. He also proposed the spiral model of software development, an iterative process in which a project repeatedly cycles through planning, risk analysis, engineering and evaluation phases, an approach that influenced later iterative and agile methods.

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Birth Year
1935 1
Birth Date
1935-05-16 1
Death Year
2022 1
Death Date
2022-08-20 1
Nationality
American 1
Award
IEEE Fellow 2
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Harlan D. Mills Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Stevens Award 2
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IEEE Simon Ramo Medal 2
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honorary doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2
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1. Wikipedia: Barry Boehm
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    Barry William Boehm (May 16, 1935, August 20, 2022) was an American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering
  • lead sentence, death date clause
    Barry William Boehm (May 16, 1935, August 20, 2022) was an American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering
  • lead sentence, nationality clause
    Barry William Boehm (May 16, 1935, August 20, 2022) was an American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering
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2. Wikidata: Barry Boehm
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