IBM Fellow Grady Booch: Why Engineering?

Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments. He has devoted his life's work to improving the art and the science of software development. Grady served as IBM's 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, where he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture and also leads several projects in software engineering that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. Grady continues to engage with customers working on real problems and is working to build deep relationships with academia and other research organizations around the world. Grady 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. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.

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[Asmar Fontenot]

Great description of the rationale, skill set, and motivation of the engineer. Can be applied to all domains of engineering.

[iLOVENATURE2011]

this video about engineering is very educational.... =)

[WJT1955]

Visual noise, blah, blah, blah, IBM buys people and locks them away in museums (now virtual museums) making sure they don't benefit anything except maybe Big Blues bottom line.

[EngStaffBluprnt]

Thank you for coming up with engineering related videos. I hope we can grow more relevant and educational alternative engineering videos online.

[yp06407012]

Inspirational....!!!

[Jim Bentz]

Great job, Grady and team!

[cat77x]

You are like minded person to whom I consider to be a valuable member of society.

[fudge867]

thanks for your comment. I have started! And sweet idea, I most certainly will contribute to an open source project. I need to study a bit more though :)

[gbooch]

this is a piece composed by sandia beaumont (that's her SL avatar name) for me.