<p>A special symposium honoring USC Professor Barry Boehm was held in Beijing the end of April. Dr. Boehm is a distinguished professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering. He was honored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Journal of Software and Informatics.</p>
<p>Professor Boehm has made numerous contributions to the theory and practice of software engineeering. He is the author of Software Engineering Economics as well as hundreds of papers in the field. Dr. Boehm is noted for COCOMO, the Spiral Model and the Theory W approach.</p>
<p>During his career he was head of the Information Sciences Department at the Rand Corp. and Director of the Information Processing Technology Office of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency before joining the faculty at USC. </p>
<p>Dr. Boehm is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery and a Fellow of IEEE. He has been awarded the AIAA Information Systems Award, ASQC Lifetime Achievement Award, the J.D Warnier Prize and the ISPA Freiman Award. In 2010 he was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.</p>
<p>At USC Dr. Boehm holds the TRW Chair of Software Engineering and was the former Director of Research of the USC Systems Engineering Research Center.</p>
<p>At the symposium honorary lectures were given by Ross Jeffrey, William Scherlis and Dieter Rombach.</p>