As the founding Director of the Center for Software Engineering, Professor Barry Boehm developed courses that have greatly impacted the education of software engineering students. Through the use of the MBASE framework and complementary tools, students have been able to obtain real-life software development experience without leaving campus. Project team clients and the universities have also b...

Five years ago, Fifth Third Bank, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, was on the front of a series of acquisitions that would result in their employee base growing from 5,000 to 19,000. Lauris Woolford, VP of Executive Development, came to Fifth Third understanding what that growth was going to mean for leadership development within her new company. "We knew from past experience that management ...

When and why are codified constitutions efficacious? Answering these key and apparently straightforward questions turns out to be extremely challenging. The road to responding to them is paved with conceptual, theoretical, and empirical difficulties. In this article, I make a modest, but nevertheless hopefully useful, claim: that overlooking certain conceptual difficulties is detrimental to the...

Marry your architecture in haste and you can repent in leisure. —Barry Boehm from a keynote address: And Very Few Lead Bullets Either How can you be sure whether the architecture chosen for your software is the right one? How can you be sure that it won't lead to calamity but instead will pave the way through a smooth development and successful product? It's not an easy question, and a lot ride...

 Sidestep: Co-Designed Shiftable Memory & Software T. Kelly, H. Kuno, M.D. Pickett, H. Boehm, A. Davis, W. Golab, G. Graefe, S. Harizopoulos, P. Joisha, A. Karp, N. Muralimanohar, F. Perner, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, G. Seroussi, A. Simitsis, R. Tarjan, R.S. Williams HP Laboratories HPL-2012-235

MARIE A. BOGOYEVITCH, RENAE K. BARR, RICHARD M. HOPKINS, PAUL M. WATT, INGRID BOEHM, ANGELA CHAN and PETER G. ARTHUR Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research-Neurotrauma and Cardiovascular Programmes, Perth, Australia, Division of Children’s Leukaemia and C...

The speed of the bacterial flagellar motor is thought to be regulated by structural changes in the motor. Two new studies, Boehm et al. (2010) in this issue and Paul et al. (2010) in Molecular Cell, now show that cyclic di-GMP also regulates flagellar motor speed through interactions between the cyclic di-GMP binding protein YcgR and the motor proteins.

Cells acquire their fate in vivo in the context of a complex microenvironmental "niche" comprised of heterologous cell types, signaling molecules, extracellular matrix, biophysical forces, and metabolic substrates. Now Calderón and Boehm report the "refunctionalization" of a defective thymic epithelial niche, offering insights into how signaling molecules may be hierarchically organized to dire...

A28 Current-clamp experiments on primary hippocampal neurons shed light on the role of L-type voltage-gated calcium channels in depolarization shifts Helmut Kubista, Lena Rubi, Petra Geier, Michael Lagler and Stefan Boehm Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria E-mail: helmut.kubista@meduniwi...