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Ivar Jacobson

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Ivar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist who is regarded as one of the fathers of components and component architecture. He is well-known for his work on SDL; use cases, use case driven development; the unified modeling language (UML); the Rational Unified Process (RUP); and aspect-oriented software development.

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    The first object-oriented programming language to emerge was Simul-67, which was developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo by Ole Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. This language introduced objects and classes.

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  1. Jacobson I (1992) Object-oriented software engineering: a use case driven approach. Addison Wesley, Reading

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  2. Jacaobson I et al (2005) The unified modelling language, user guide, 2nd edn. Addison Wesley Professional, Reading

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  3. Jacaobson I et al (1999) The unified software development process. Addison Wesley, Reading

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O’Regan, G. (2013). Ivar Jacobson. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_33

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