Dewayne E. Perry

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Dewayne E. Perry is an American engineer. He was formerly the Motorola Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and SIGSOFT. [1] [2] [3] He is the co-author, with Alexander L. Wolf, of the most-cited paper in software engineering since 1999. [4]

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Over the past decades, Perry and his wife, Faith, have assembled a world-class collection of medieval and Renaissance prints, etchings, woodcuts, and engravings. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "Dewayne Perry". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 13, 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. "Dewayne E. Perry" . Retrieved December 13, 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. "Perry, Dewayne E." worldcat.org. Retrieved December 13, 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. Perry, Dewayne E.; Wolf, Alexander L. (October 1992). "Foundations for the Study of Software Architecture". SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 17 (4): 40–52. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.40.5174 . doi:10.1145/141874.141884. ISSN   0163-5948.
  5. "Donor Story - Life-Long Collectors Leave a Legacy of Art". www.westmontlegacy.org. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  6. "Highlights from the Dewayne and Faith Perry Print Collection - ART.WORLD". art.world. Retrieved 2017-09-22.