Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson was born on 1939 and is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process, aspect-oriented software development and Essence.
10 Facts About Ivar Jacobson
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Ivar Jacobson was born in Ystad, Sweden, on September 2,1939.
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Ivar Jacobson received his Master of Electrical Engineering degree at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg in 1962.
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Ivar Jacobson developed the software method Object-Oriented Software Engineering published 1992, which was a simplified version of the commercial software process Objectory.
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In October, 1995, Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software and Ivar Jacobson started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, known collectively as the Three Amigos.
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When IBM bought Rational in 2003, Ivar Jacobson decided to leave, after he stayed on until May 2004 as an executive technical consultant.
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In 1967 at Ericsson, Ivar Jacobson proposed the use of software components in the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing.
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Ivar Jacobson used state transition diagrams to describe the message flows between components.
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Ivar Jacobson was one of the original developers of the Specification and Design Language.
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Ivar Jacobson has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP.