Douglas C. Schmidt Explained

Douglas C. Schmidt (born July 18, 1962) is a computer scientist and author in the fields of object-oriented programming, distributed computing and design patterns.

Biography

In August 1994 he joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis.^[1] From August 1999 to December 2002 he was associate professor with tenure at the University of California, Irvine.During much of this time he worked for DARPA managing US federal funded research programs.In 2003 he became professor of computer Science at Vanderbilt University, and associate chair of computer science and engineering in December 2004.^[2] In August 2010 he became a deputy director, research, and chief technology officer at Software Engineering Institute.^[3] In April 2013 he became a director at Real-Time Innovations.^[4]

He led teams that developed an Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE), The ACE ORB (TAO), a component-integrated ACE ORB (CIAO), and an implementation of the Deployment and Configuration standard built on top of TAO (DAnCE)."ORB" refers to a key piece of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture.They were made available as open-source software.^[5]

On February 8, 2024, Schmidt was approved by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to become the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation for the Department of Defense.^[6] He was confirmed by the full Senate on February 29, 2024.^[7]

Publications

Articles

Douglas C. Schmidt published articles in C++ Report and C/C++ Users Journal. He edited "Object Interconnections" column in C/C++ Users Journal,^[8] and "Patterns++" column in C++ Report.^[9]

Books

• Book: Pattern Languages of Program Design . 978-0-201-60734-5 . James. O. Coplien, Douglas C. Schmidt . May 1995. Addison-Wesley .
• Book: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects . 978-0-471-60695-6 . Douglas Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann . September 2000.
• Book: C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with ACE and Patterns . 978-0-201-60464-1 . Douglas C. Schmidt . Stephen D. Huston . December 2001.
• Book: C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks . 978-0-201-79525-7 . Douglas C. Schmidt . Stephen D. Huston . November 2002. Addison-Wesley .
• Book: Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16–20, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) . 978-3-540-40317-3 . Markus Endler (Editor), Douglas Schmidt (Editor) . August 2003.
• Book: Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2003, Catania, … 2003 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) . 978-3-540-20498-5 . Robert Meersman (Editor), Zahir Tari (Editor), Douglas C. Schmidt (Editor) . January 2004 . registration .
• Book: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, Volume 4 . 978-0-470-05902-9 . Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt . March 2007.
• Book: Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5: On Patterns and Pattern Languages . 978-0-471-48648-0 . Frank Buschmann . Kevlin Henney . Douglas C. Schmidt . June 2007. Wiley .
• Book: Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: 10th International Conference, MoDELS 2007, Nashville, USA, September 30 – October 5, 2007, Proceedings … / Programming and Software Engineering) . 978-3-540-75208-0 . Gregor Engels (Editor), Bill Opdyke (Editor), Douglas C. Schmidt (Editor), Frank Weil (Editor) . October 2007. Springer .
• Book: Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work . 978-0-471-25201-6 . Mohamed E. Fayad . Douglas C. Schmidt . Ralph Johnson . September 2009. Wiley .
• Book: Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design . 978-0-471-24875-0 . Mohamed E. Fayad . Douglas C. Schmidt . Ralph Johnson . September 2009. Wiley .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Douglas C. Schmidt's Welcome Page . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180530094101/http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ . May 30, 2018 . August 10, 2013 . Faculty web site . Washington University in St. Louis.
2. Web site: Douglas C. Schmidt . Faculty web page . Vanderbilt University . August 10, 2013.
3. Web site: SEI Announces New Chief Technology Officer Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt . sei.cmu.edu. August 3, 2010 .
4. Web site: RTI Welcomes New Board Member . rti.com . April 8, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224002/http://www.rti.com/company/news/douglas-schmidt-joins-board.html . April 8, 2014 . dead .
5. Web site: Obtaining ACE, TAO, CIAO, and DAnCE . Download web site . Vanderbilt University . August 10, 2013.
6. Web site: PN1166 — Douglas Craig Schmidt — Department of Defense 118th Congress (2023-2024) . US Congress . 29 February 2024. 1 March 2024.
7. Web site: U.S. Senate confirms Schmidt to lead operational testing and evaluation for the Department of Defense . Vanderbilt University . 12 March 2024.
8. Web site: CUJ and C++ Report Columns on Distributed Object Computing . cs.wustl.edu. https://web.archive.org/web/20180614093401/http://www.cs.wustl.edu:80/~schmidt/report-doc.html. June 14, 2018.
9. Web site: The Last Waltz, C++ Report, 1999 . cs.wustl.edu . October 26, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101205210501/http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/editorial-15.html . December 5, 2010 . dead .