Manny Lehman | |
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| Born | 24 January 1925 Germany |
| Died | 29 December 2010 (aged 85) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Lehman's laws of software evolution |
| Spouse | Chava Robinson (m. 1953) |
| Awards | Harlan D. Mills Award (2001) FREng[1] (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ferranti Ministry of Defense (Israel) IBM Imperial College London Middlesex University |
| Thesis | Parallel Arithmetic Units and Their Control (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | K. D. Tocher[2] |
| Doctoral students | Peter G. Harrison |
Meir "Manny" Lehman, FREng[1] (24 January 1925 – 29 December 2010) was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. From 1972 to 2002 he was a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution.[3][4]
- ^ a b "List of Fellows".
- ^ "Meir M. Lehman: An Interview Conducted by William Aspray". IEEE History Center. 23 September 1993. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ Cook, Stephen; Harrison, Rachel; Lehman, Meir M.; Wernick, Paul (November 2005). "Evolution in software systems: foundations of the SPE classification scheme". Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice. 18 (1). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: 1–35. doi:10.1002/smr.314. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013.
- ^ Canfora, G.; Dalcher, D.; Raffo, D.; Basili, V. R.; Fernández-Ramil, J.; Rajlich, V. C.; Bennett, K.; Burd, L.; Munro, M.; Drossopoulou, S.; Boehm, B.; Eisenbach, S.; Michaelson, G.; Dalcher, D.; Ross, P.; Wernick, P. D.; Perry, D. E. (2011). "In memory of Manny Lehman, 'Father of Software Evolution'". Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice. 23 (3): 137. doi:10.1002/smr.537.