Dr.
Ivar Jacobson,
Vice President of Business Engineering, is the inventor
of the OOSE method, and he is also the founder of Objectory
AB in Sweden, which merged with Rational Software Corporation
(today IBM Rational). Dr. Jacobson is the principal
author of two influential and best-selling books Object-Oriented
Software Engineering--A Use Case Driven Approach (Computer
Language Productivity award winner in 1992) and The
Object Advantage--Business Process Reengineering with
Object Technology.
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He has also authored
several widely referenced papers on object technology. One
of the most famous papers is his first OOPSLA '87 paper entitled
"Object-Oriented Development in an Industrial Environment,"
which presented the first truly object-oriented method ever
published. Ivar Jacobson's use-case driven approach has had
a very strong impact on the entire OOAD industry, and he himself
has become one of its "icons." Consequently, he
is frequently invited keynote speaker and panelist, debating
OOAD topics with colleagues and methodologists such as Grady
Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, Steven Mellor, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
at major OO conferences around the world.
He is well known for
his pioneering work and more than 20 years of experience in
using object methods for the design of large real-time systems.
His early object-based design technique has evolved into the
international standard ITU (formerly CCITT)/SDL.
Dr. Jacobson also
regularly serves on the OOPSLA, ECOOP, and TOOLS program committees,
and he is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of
Object-Oriented Programming.
In 1994, Ivar Jacobson
received the first Swedish Computer Association (SCA) award
(the Kjell Hultman prize) for "extraordinary achievement
in promoting efficiency and productivity in the development
and use of information technology."
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