Grady Booch

Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, Grady Booch is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. His current research is focused on embodied cognition, wherein for the past several years he has been working with a group of neuroscientists to develop a pattern language of the brain. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software. For over a decade, Grady was a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and has given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was recently named an IEEE Computer Pioneer. He is currently developing a major trans-media documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience.

Abstract

Abstract: As programers, we have the privilege and the responsibility of transforming imagination into action. Ours is still a young and evolving craft, and the tools of our practice have changed mightily from the earliest days of computing, a time when software was barely indistinguishable from hardware, to the present, when software has woven itself into the interstitial space of civilization. In this presentation, we’ll take a journey of exploration for how our discipline has changed and how it will continue to change. Along the way, we’ll expose some of the unchanging fundamentals of the craft