James W. Moore Receives IEEE Standards Association's 'International Award'
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 3 December 2007 -- James W. Moore has received the IEEE Standards Association's 2007 International Award for his "considerable contribution to the IEEE Computer Society Software and Systems Engineering Standards Collection (S2ESC) and the international collection of software engineering standards supported by ISO/IEC" The award is presented annually to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of the international goals of the IEEE-SA. Moore, an IEEE Fellow, is a 35-year veteran of software engineering with tenures at IBM and MITRE Corporation.
Since 2001, Mr. Moore has been intensely involved in software and systems engineering standardization for the IEEE, serving as the IEEE Computer Society's liaison to the international standards organization ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 and as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee. "I am happy to accept this award on behalf of the dozens of individuals who have been working toward this shared goal of establishing international software engineering standards," says Moore.
"One of the real problems in this field," says Moore, "has been that the international collection of software engineering standards and the IEEE collection of standards, although they mostly agree, weren't written to work together. They were written independently and sometimes have odd disagreements, creating confusion in the marketplace. Over the last seven years, we have managed to complete roughly a dozen projects which resulted in one organization accepting the standard of the other organization or both organizations accepting the same document.
"To me, the real value of this award is recognizing that this work is important," says Moore.
Previous recipients of the IEEE-SA International Award include Ben C. Johnson, Roger B. Marks, Denis L. Dufournet, Carl R. Stevenson, Michael R. Murphy, Ronald C. Petersen and Wallace S. Read.
Moore's latest book on software engineering standards, The Road Map to Software Engineering: A Standards-Based Guide, was published in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons. He also serves the IEEE Computer Society as a member of its Board of Governors and chairs its Professional Practices Committee. He is an executive editor of the Society's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and a member of the editorial board of the recent revision of the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering. The IEEE Computer Society has recognized him as a charter member of their Golden Core; the IEEE selected him as a recipient of their Third Millennium Award.
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