- James Rumbaugh
Dr. James Rumbaugh is a computer scientist and object methodologist who is best known for his work in creating the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the
Unified Modeling Language (UML).Rumbaugh led the development of OMT while at
General Electric Research and Development Center, where he worked for over 25 years.He joined
Rational Software in 1994, and worked there withIvar Jacobson andGrady Booch ("the Three Amigos ") to develop UML. Later they merged their software development methologies, OMT,OOSE andBooch into theRational Unified Process (RUP). In 2003 he moved toIBM , after its acquisition of Rational Software. He retired in 2006.Rumbaugh has a B.S. in
physics fromMIT , an M.S. inastronomy fromCaltech , and a Ph.D. incomputer science from MIT.He has written a number of books about UML and RUP together with
Ivar Jacobson andGrady Booch .Rumbaugh has two sons, both currently attending college in California.
Published works
*James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, William Premerlani, Frederick Eddy and William Lorensen: "Object-Oriented Modeling and Design", Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-629841-9
External links
* [http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=d3dd9437-09e2-448f-9ee3-6aad01752522 Biography on InformIT]
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