IBM Rational's 'free radical' talks about the enduring difficulties of software development, his advocacy of open source and Second Life, and his license to kill. Grady Booch is chief scientist at ...

Grady Booch is chief scientist at IBM’s Rational Software unit and an IBM fellow who also holds the title “free radical.” His software development approach and the Unified Modeling Language, which he ...

IBM Fellow and UML co-creator also talks about blogs, LAMP, and Microsoft Grady Booch, now an IBM Fellow, came to IBM through its merger with Rational Software in 2003. Booch is perhaps best known as ...

He is now in the Mayo Clinic awaiting surgery, and has continued providing updates as of earlier this week. Booch, 51, is chief scientist for IBM's Rational Software line, and helped develop the ...

Booch says: Project success in a commercial sense can be measured in capitalistic terms, namely, the return on investment; project success in a government/military sense can be measured in terms of ...

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