Academic Genealogy(What 17th Century Mathematicians have to

do with COCOMO)

Dr. Ricardo ValerdiMIT

Cedalion standing on the shoulders of Orion from Blind Orion Searching for the

Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin (1658)

In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton famously remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke (discussing experiments in optics):

"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

1666-present

• > 30 descendants (1993-present)• Barry Boehm, UCLA (1964)• Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr., University of Kansas (1957)• Robert Schatten, Columbia University (1943)• Francis Joseph Murray, Columbia University (1936)• Bernard Osgood Koopman, Harvard University (1926)• George David Birkhoff, University of Chicago (1907)• Eliakim Hastings Moore, Yale University (1885)• Hubert Anson Newton, Yale University (1850)• Michel Chasles, École Polytechnique (1814)• Simeon Denis Poisson, École Polytechnique (1800)• Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace• Leonhard Euler, Universität Basel (1726)• Johann Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1694)• Jacob Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1676)• Nicolas Malebranche, T (1672)• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Universität Altdorf (1666)

Source: http://www.genealogy.ams.org/

Presented to Barry on the celebration of the 25th COCOMO Forum at the University of Southern

California by his students

Cristina Gacek(1998)

IESE, U. Newcastle

Keun Lee(2006)

Samsung

Apurva Jain(2007)

Software Metrics

Hasan Kitapci(2007)

Vu Nguyen(2010)

Yue Chen(2007)Cisco

Dan Wu(2007)

Microsoft

Alexander Lam(2008)

The Aerospace Corporation

Ali Afzal Malik(2010)

Zhihao Scott Chen(2006)

Motorola

Alexander Egyed(1998)

Teknowledge Corp.Johannes Kepler University

Jongmoon Baik(2000)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Sue Koolmanojwong(2010)

Jesal Bhuta(2007)Infosys

DeWitt T. Latiner(2008)

U.S. Air Force

Jared Fortune(2009)

The Aerospace Corporation

Monvorath Phongpaibul(2007)

IBM

Chris Abts(2004)

Texas A&M, Booze Allen

JoAnn Lane(2009)

USCLiGuo Huang

(2006)Southern Methodist

University

Ye Yang(2006)

Institute of SoftwareChinese Academy

of Sciences

Ricardo Valerdi(2005)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sunita Chulani(1999)

IBM Research, Cisco

Mohammed Al-Said(2003)

Saudi AramcoHoh Peter In

(1998)Texas A&M, Korea University

Allen Peter Nikora(1998)

NASA, JPL

Brad Clark(1997)

Software Metrics

Ming June Lee(1996)

Yimin Bao(1996)

Ahmed Abd-el-ShafyAbd-Allah

(1996)

Prasanta Bose(1993)

Texas Instruments, USC,George Mason, Lockheed MartinRay Madachy

(1994)USC, Naval Postgraduate

School

November 3, 2010