Grady Booch
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Booch served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. Booch is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Booch has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.
Booch is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He writes a regular column on architecture for IEEE Software. Booch has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE). Booch helped establish work at the Computer History Museum for the preservation of classic software and therein has conducted several oral histories for luminaries such as John Backus and Fred Brooks.
Booch received his bachelor of science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.
Booch lives in Colorado and Maui. His interests include reading, traveling, singing, and playing the harp.