Leon J. Osterweil

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Leon J. Osterweil
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Maryland
Princeton University
Known for software engineering
Awards ACM Fellow (1998)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Colorado Boulder
University of California at Irvine
Thesis Some Results in Graph Enumeration  (1971)
Doctoral advisor James Claggett Owings Jr.
Doctoral students Lori A. Clarke
Website laser.cs.umass.edu/people/ljo.html

Leon Joel Osterweil is an American computer scientist noted for his research on software engineering.

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Biography

Osterweil received a B. A. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1965. He received a M.A. in mathematics in 1970 and a Ph.D in mathematics in 1971 from the University of Maryland.

He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor in 1971. While there he was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and to professor in 1982, he was chair of the department from 1981 to 1986. In 1988, he became a professor at the University of California at Irvine and he was department chair from 1989 to 1992. In 1993, he became a professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Awards

In the year 1998, he was named an ACM Fellow. [1]

His other notable awards include:

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References

  1. Association for Computing Machinery (1998). "AWARDS ACM Fellow Leon J. Osterweil". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2013-06-15. for fundamental contributions in software engineering, particularly in testing and analysis, environments and process, and leadership in the computer science community.
  2. ACM SIGSOFT (2003). "ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award". www.sigsoft.org. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
  3. ACM SIGSOFT (1997). "ACM SIGSOFT ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award". www.sigsoft.org. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
  4. ACM SIGSOFT (2010). "ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award". SIGSOFT. Retrieved 2013-06-15.