Manny Lehman (computer scientist) explained

Manny Lehman
Birth Date:1925 1, df=y
Birth Place:Germany
Death Date:29 December 2010 (aged 85)
Death Place:Jerusalem, Israel
Workplaces:Ferranti
Ministry of Defense (Israel)
IBM
Imperial College London
Middlesex University
Alma Mater:Imperial College London
Doctoral Advisor:K. D. Tocher[1]
Doctoral Students:Peter G. Harrison
Thesis Title:Parallel Arithmetic Units and Their Control
Thesis Year:1957
Known For:Lehman's laws of software evolution
Awards:Harlan D. Mills Award (2001)
FREng[2] (2012)
Spouse:Chava Robinson (m. 1953)

Meir "Manny" Lehman, FREng[3] (24 January 1925 – 29 December 2010) was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. From 1972 to 2002 he was a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution.[4] [5]

Career

Lehman was born in Germany on 24 January 1925 and emigrated to England in 1931.[6] [7] He studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Imperial College London where he was involved in the design of the Imperial College Computing Engine's Digital Computer Arithmetic Unit.[8] He spent a year at Ferranti in London before working at Israel's Ministry of Defense from 1957 to 1964. From 1964 to 1972 he worked at IBM's research division in Yorktown Heights, NY where he studied program evolution with Les Belady. The study of IBM's programming process gave the foundations for Lehman's laws of software evolution.[9] In 1972 he returned to Imperial College where he was Head of Section and later Head of Department (1979–1984). Lehman remained at Imperial for some thirty years until 2002 when he moved to the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University.After retiring from Middlesex he moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where he died on 29 December 2010.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meir M. Lehman: An Interview Conducted by William Aspray . IEEE History Center . 23 September 1993 . 6 October 2012.
  2. Web site: List of Fellows.
  3. Web site: List of Fellows.
  4. Evolution in software systems: foundations of the SPE classification scheme. Stephen. Cook. Rachel. Harrison. Rachel Harrison (computer scientist). Meir M.. Lehman. Meir M. Lehman. Paul. Wernick. . 18. 1–35. November 2005. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. https://archive.today/20130105080212/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112136395/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. dead. 2013-01-05. 10.1002/smr.314. 1.
  5. Canfora . G. . Dalcher . D. . Raffo . D. . Basili . V. R. . Fernández-Ramil . J. . Rajlich . V. C. . Bennett . K. . Burd . L. . Munro . M. . Drossopoulou . 10.1002/smr.537 . S. . Boehm . B. . Eisenbach . S. . Michaelson . G. . Dalcher . D. . Ross . P. . Wernick . P. D. . Perry . D. E. . In memory of Manny Lehman, 'Father of Software Evolution' . Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice . 23 . 3 . 137 . 2011 . free .
  6. Book: Gay, Hannah. The history of Imperial College London, 1907–2007. 2007. 562. . 978-1-86094-708-7. 12 October 2011.
  7. Web site: Prof Manny Lehman, FREng. Debrett's. 9 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025059/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/l/10422/Meir%20M%20%28Manny%29+LEHMAN.aspx. 25 July 2013. dmy-all.
  8. Book: Gay, Hannah . The history of Imperial College London, 1907–2007 . World Scientific . 2007 . 978-1-86094-709-4 . 291.
  9. Web site: ACM Fellow Profile for Meir M. (Manny) Lehman . . 31 May 2007 . 9 June 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928015833/http://www.sigsoft.org/SEN/lehman.html . 28 September 2011 . dead .
  10. News: Obituary: Professor Manny Lehman . Susan Eisenbach . Reporter . . 4 February 2011 . 4 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606114839/http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/reporter/2011/02/04/obituary-professor-manny-lehman/ . 6 June 2011 . dead .
  11. Web site: List of Fellows.
  12. Web site: ACM Fellows. ACM. 17 June 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110530024148/http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all. 30 May 2011.
  13. Web site: Past recipients for Harlan D. Mills Award . . 13 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129221657/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/harlan#_118_tabs_WAR_pluginsui_INSTANCE_Wr5I_tab1 . 29 November 2014 . dead .

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