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<h1>Kim Waldén</h1>
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<p>My background is 30 years of experience with industrial software systems
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development. I was on the team that produced the Simula complier for the
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DEC-10 in 1973-74. This is in fact the most successful project I have ever
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worked in—eight people doing state-of-the-art development for nearly two years
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without so much as a temporary slip on the fixed budget and time schedule. </p>
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<p>It was great fun, and gave me a totally unrealistic view regarding the
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standard of the typical industrial software project. Over the years to
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come reality would force me to revise that view with a vengeance, and I became
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interested in general principles of software engineering that could perhaps help
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industrial projects approach the standards that I knew was possible. </p>
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<p>After working mostly with embedded real-time systems, I participated 1981-86
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in a joint project between Enea and the computer science department of Stockhom
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University to do research in the area of software engineering. As part of
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the venture, we acquired the first commercial Unix system in Sweden to be used
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for trying out our research ideas in real industrial projects at Enea. The
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work resulted 1986 in Ph D theses for myself and my colleague on the project, Bo
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Steinholtz.</p>
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<p>While heading a methods department at Enea for a couple of years, I came
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across articles in 1987 by Bertrand Meyer about Eiffel and Design by
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Contract, and was immediately hooked. I attended his first European
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seminar in Paris that same year and gave a two hour talk at Enea, which was
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received with great interest by the consultants. We managed to obtain company funding,
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Enea became official Eiffel distributor in Sweden, and I assumed the technical
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responsibility for introducing the ideas to Swedish industry and for building a
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group of object-oriented experts at Enea. </p>
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<p>During this period, I acted as reviewer for several of Bertrand Meyer's books
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and also got to know him and his family personally. When Jean-Marc Nerson,
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then head of the Eiffel compiler development at ISE, presented early ideas on
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BON, I was immediately interested in collaboration. The literature so far
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on the emerging subject of methods for object-oriented analysis and design had
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been less than convincing, to put it mildly.</p>
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<p>This lead to the publication of the book "Seamless Object-Oriented Software
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Architecture" in 1994. During the period 1992-98 I presented nine BON-tutorials
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at TOOLS Conferences around the world, as well as tutorials on the database
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framework MRF whose design is described in the last case study of the book.</p>
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<p>I have been fortunate enough to be able to work with Eiffel in industrial
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projects for the past ten years, and I am currently a member of the ECMA
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TC39-TG4 working group on standardization of the Eiffel language.</p>
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<p>Publications:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><p class="number">"Automatic Generation of Make Dependencies", Software Practice &
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Experience, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 575-585, June 1984</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Control of Evolving Software Systems: a Language-Independent Database
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Approach", Ph D dissertation, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, May
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1986 (jointly with Bo Steinholtz)</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Automatic Identification of Software System Differences", IEEE Trans.
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Softw. Eng., vol 13, no. 4, pp. 493-497, April 1987, (co-authored with Bo Steinholtz)</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Automating the Development of Syntax Tree Generators for an Evolving
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Language", Proc. Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 8,
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Santa Barbara, Aug. 1992), Prentice Hall, pp. 185-195 (co-authored with Per
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Grape)</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture", Prentice Hall, 1994 (co-authored
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with Jean-Marc Nerson)</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Reversibility in Software Engineering", IEEE Computer, vol. 29, no. 9,
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September 1996, pp. 93-95</p></li>
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<li><p class="number">"Business Object Notation (BON)", chapter 10 in "Handbook of Object
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Technology", Zaba Zamir (ed.), CRC Press 1998, pp. 10.1-10.12</p></li>
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