Len Bass
Leonard Joel (Len) Bass (born c.1943) is an American software engineer, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), particularly known for his contributions on software architecture in practice.
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- Name
- Leonard Joel Bass
- Born
- 1943
- Education
- Purdue University
- Occupation
- software engineer, former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Leonard Joel (Len) Bass (born c.1943) is an American software engineer, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), particularly known for his contributions on software architecture in practice.
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• Name — Leonard Joel Bass • Born — 1943 • Education — Purdue University • Workplaces — Carnegie Mellon University University of Rhode Island • Occupation — software engineer, former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute • Thesis Title — Hierarchies based on computational complexity and irregularities of class determining measured sets • Thesis Year — 1970 • Doctoral Advisor — Paul Ruel Young
Biography
Biography
Bass received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1970 under the supervision of Paul Ruell Young with the thesis, entitled "Hierarchies based on computational complexity and irregularities of class determining measured sets." Bass was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island in 1970. In 1986, he moved to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he started as head of the user-interface software group, and later focused on the analysis of software architectures. Since 2011, he has been Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA (National ICT Australia). Len Bass was awarded the Software Development Magazines Jolt Productivity Award twice in 1999 and 2003.
Presentations
Presentations
• Bass, L. [lenbass]. (2016, July 31). Networking [Video file]. • Bass, L. [lenbass]. (2016, July 30). Virtual Machine [Video file].
Identity
Identity
Len Bass is recorded as software engineer, computer scientist and printmaker.
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Life and career
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1944
Len Bass was born in 1944.
Selected publications
Books • Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R. (1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2003, 3rd ed. 2012, 4th ed. 2022). Software Architecture in Practice. Pearson Education • Clements, P., Bass, L., Garlan, D., Ivers, J., Little, R., Nord, R., Stafford, J. (1st ed. 2002, 2nd ed. 2011). Documenting software architectures: views and beyond. Pearson Education. • Bass, L., Weber, I., Zhu, L. (2015). DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective. Addison-Wesley Professional. Articles and reports, a selection: • Kazman, R., Bass, L., Webb, M., & Abowd, G. (1994, May). "SAAM: A method for analyzing the properties of software architectures." In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering (pp. 81–90). IEEE Computer Society Press. • Abowd, G., Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R., & Northrop, L. (1997).Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation(No. CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pittsburgh Pa Software Engineering Inst. • Kazman, R., Abowd, G., Bass, L., & Clements, P. (1996). "Scenario-based analysis of software architecture." IEEE Software, 13(6):47–55.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q18249331: Len Bass
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scholarly publication
- Software Architecture in Practice Third Edition Written by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2015
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Literature
Literature
User Interface Software, edited by Len Bass and Prasun Dewan, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1995.
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- 1.Fielding, Roy Thomas. Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures. Diss. University of California, Irvine, 2000.
- 2.Bosch, Jan. Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach. Pearson Education, 2000.
- 3.MathGenealogy id=81991
- 4.Len Bass at nicta.com.au. Accessed 10. 2014.
- 5.The Complete Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards at Dr. Dobbs https://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/the-complete-jolt-product-excellence-pr/232602336. Accessed 04. 2020.
- 6.Leonard J. Bass.
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