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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Software engineering

Name
  
Leon Osterweil


Notable awards
  
ACM Fellow (1998)

Fields
  
Computer Science

Doctoral students
  
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Institutions
  
University of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity of Colorado BoulderUniversity of California at Irvine

Thesis
  
Some Results in Graph Enumeration (1971)

Doctoral advisor
  
James Claggett Owings, Jr.

Alma mater
  
University of Maryland, College Park, Princeton University

Institution
  

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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.

His other notable awards include:

  • ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, 2003
  • ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award, 1997
  • ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, 2010
  • References

    Leon J. Osterweil Wikipedia


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