Grady Booch

Country: USA
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow IBM Research Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering atIBM Researchwhere he leads IBMs research and development on embodied cognition.Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of theUnified Modeling Language(UML), a founding member of theAgile Alliance, and a founding member of theHillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column forIEEE SoftwareandIEEE Spectrum. Grady is also a trustee for theComputer History Museum. He is anIBM Fellow, anACM Fellow, anIEEE Fellow, has been awarded theLovelace Medaland given theTuring Lecturefor the BCS, and was named anIEEE Computer Pioneerfor his work in software architecture. Grady has served as an architect or architectural mentor for a multitude of complex software-intensive systems across many domains around the world, including finance, transportation, defense, commerce, productivity, government, medical, gaming, animation, software development, artificial intelligence, and many others. Grady is currently developing a major transmedia documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience:Computing.
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