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e-mail: boehm@usc.edu
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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. 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 the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office, as Director of the DDR&E Software and Computer Technology Office, and as Director of two major DoD software initiatives: the DoD Software Technology Plan and the DDR&E Software Action Plan. 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 is currently Director of the 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, and two advanced software engineering environments: the TRW Software Productivity System and Quantum Leap Environment. He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, ACM Computing Reviews, 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. 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), and the NSIA Grace Murray Hopper Award (1989). He is an AIAA Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.