Leonard Joel (Len) Bass (born c.1943) is an American

software engineer Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications. It involves applying engineering principles and computer programming expertise to develop ...

, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the

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(SEI), particularly known for his contributions on

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in practice.

Biography

Bass received his Ph.D. degree in

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from

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

in 1970 under the supervision of Paul Ruel Young with the thesis, entitled "Hierarchies based on computational complexity and irregularities of class determining measured sets." Bass was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of Rhode Island. The univer ...

in 1970. In 1986, he moved to the Software Engineering Institute at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

, where he started as head of the user-interface software group, and later focused on the analysis of software architectures. Since 2011, he has been Senior Principal Researcher at

NICTA NICTA (formerly named National ICT Australia Ltd) was Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence and is now known as CSIRO's Data61. The term "Centre of Excellence" is common marketing terminology ...

(National ICT

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

). Len Bass was awarded the ''Software Development Magazines Jolt Productivity Award twice in 1999 and 2003.The Complete Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards at Dr. Dobb

Accessed 04. 2020.

Selected publications

Books * Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R. (1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2003, 3rd ed. 2012, 4th ed. 2022). ''Software Architecture in Practice.'' Pearson Education * Clements, P., Bass, L., Garlan, D., Ivers, J., Little, R., Nord, R., Stafford, J. (1st ed. 2002, 2nd ed. 2011). ''Documenting software architectures: views and beyond.'' Pearson Education. * Bass, L., Weber, I., Zhu, L. (2015). ''DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective.'' Addison-Wesley Professional. Articles and reports, a selection: * Kazman, R., Bass, L., Webb, M., & Abowd, G. (1994, May).
SAAM: A method for analyzing the properties of software architectures
" In ''Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering'' (pp. 81–90).

IEEE Computer Society Press The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

. * Abowd, G., Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R., & Northrop, L. (1997).''Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation''(No. CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pittsburgh Pa Software Engineering Inst. * Kazman, R., Abowd, G., Bass, L., & Clements, P. (1996).
Scenario-based analysis of software architecture
" ''

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'', 13(6):47–55.

Presentations

* Bass, L. enbass (2016, July 31).
Networking
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* Bass, L. enbass (2016, July 30).
Virtual Machine
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References

External links

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