James E. Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist

Computer scientist

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 and object methodologist who is best known for his work in creating the Object Modeling Technique

Object-modeling technique

The object-modeling technique is an object modeling language for software modeling and designing. It was developed around 1991 by Rumbaugh, Blaha, Premerlani, Eddy and Lorensen as a method to develop object-oriented systems and to support object-oriented programming.OMT was developed as an...

 (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 (UML).

Biography

Rumbaugh has a B.S. in physics

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 from MIT, an M.S. in astronomy

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 from Caltech, and a Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in computer science

Computer science

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 from MIT.

Rumbaugh worked at Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

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 (DEC) as a lead research scientist. He led the development of OMT while at General Electric

General Electric

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 Research and Development Center, where he worked for over 25 years. In 1994, he joined Rational Software

Rational Software

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, were he worked with Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Jacobson

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 and Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch is an American software engineer. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments...

 ("the Three Amigos

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") to develop Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 (UML). Later they merged their software development methologies, OMT, OOSE and Booch

Booch method

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 into the Rational Unified Process

Rational Unified Process

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 (RUP). In 2003 he moved to IBM

IBM

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, after its acquisition of Rational Software. He retired in 2006.

Publications

Rumbaugh has written a number of books about UML and RUP together with Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist, known as major contributor to UML, Objectory, RUP and aspect-oriented software development.- Biography :...

 and Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch is an American software engineer. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments...

. A selection include:

• 1991. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design. With others. Prentice Hall
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  , ISBN 0-13-629841-9.
• 1996. OMT insights : perspectives on modeling from the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. Foreword by James Coplien.
• 1999. Unified software development process
• 2005. Object-oriented modeling and design with UML

External links

• Biography on InformIT