Stevens Award
The Stevens Award (named after the software development pioneer Wayne Stevens , 1944–1993) has been given by the Reengineering Forum since 1995 to people who have made outstanding contributions to literature or methods in the field of software development.
Award winners
- 1995: Tony Wasserman - Founder and Chairman of Interactive Development Environments ( USA )
- 1996: David Harel - Professor at the Weizmann Institute and developer of the software modeling tool Statemate ( Israel )
- 1997: Michael A. Jackson - founder of the Jackson diagram (England)
- 1998: Thomas J. McCabe - Expert in the field of software metrics and developer of the cyclomatic complexity metric (USA)
- 1999: Tom DeMarco - Chairman of The Atlantic Systems Guild , consultant and authority on project management (USA)
- 2000: Gerald M. Weinberg - consultant and recognized author in the field of software quality assurance and project management (USA)
- 2001: Peter Chen - Founder of the Entity-Relationship-Model (USA)
- 2002: Cordell Green - Founder and Chairman of the Kestrel Institute (USA)
- 2003: Manny Lehman - Authority on Software Evolution ( England )
- 2004: François Bodart - important contributions to the field of applied software development methods ( Belgium )
- 2005: Mary Shaw - significantly involved in establishing teaching in the areas of software architecture and software technology (USA)
- 2005: Jim Highsmith - advocate and promoter of agile and adaptable methods in software development and project management
- 2006: Grady Booch - leading figure in advanced software design and the standardization of development methods and their practical implementation
- 2007: Nicholas Zvegintzov - formative role in the theory and practice of software maintenance in the international software community
- 2008: Harry Sneed - leading role and years of experience with theory and practice technologies of software development and their industrialization
- 2009: Larry Constantine - drafting quality concepts in structured design
- 2010: Watts Humphrey - authority on software process improvement - and Peter Aiken
- 2011: Jared Spool and Barry Boehm - inventors of the COCOMO software cost calculation
- 2012: Philip Newcomb - reliable reengineering of system-critical and highly sensitive data
- 2013: Jean-Luc Hainaut - fundamental contributions to the theory and application of data modeling , design of databases, reverse engineering of data and data-centered system development
Web links
- Stevens Award ( Memento from December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )