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Barry Boehm
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Barry Boehm is the TRW Professor of Software Engineering and Director of the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California. He 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. In 2000, he received an honorary Sc.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. Between 1989 and 1992, he served within the U.S. Department of Defense as Director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office, and as Director of the DDR&E Software and Computer Technology Office. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the software process Spiral Model, the Theory W (win-win) approach, and his 1981 book, Software Engineering Economics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||