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Harlan Mills

Also Known As Harlan D. Mills · Harlan Duncan Mills
Software And Its Engineering

Harlan Duncan Mills (May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996) was professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. As an IBM research fellow he adapted ideas from engineering and computer science, including automata theory and the structured programming theory of Edsger Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd and others, to software development; his Cleanroom software development process emphasized top-down design and formal specification, and he contributed his ideas across six books and over fifty refereed articles.

Facts
Birth Year
1919 1
Birth Date
1919-05-14 2
Death Year
1996 2
Death Date
1996-01-08 2
Award
Computer Pioneer Award 1
Award
IBM Fellow 1
FAQs

How did Harlan Mills try to bring the Cleanroom process into wider use?

He founded a company for Cleanroom technology transfer.

Mills built the mathematical and statistical principles for software into the Cleanroom software engineering process, which he developed as an IBM Fellow. He then founded Software Engineering Technology, Inc., and created it as an enterprise for Cleanroom technology transfer, a business meant to pass the method on to others.
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1. Wikidata: Harlan Mills
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2. Harlan Mills - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Born field (year)
    Harlan Duncan Mills (May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996) was professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc.
  • Lead paragraph, opening sentence
    Harlan Duncan Mills (May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996) was professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc.
  • Infobox, Died field (year)
    Harlan Duncan Mills (May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996) was professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc.
  • Lead paragraph, opening sentence (death)
    Harlan Duncan Mills (May 14, 1919 - January 8, 1996) was professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc.
  • In Field: Software Engineering, Lead paragraph
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