Edward Colbert

Ed Colbert has been teaching object–oriented methods, software engineering, and the Ada, C++, and Java programming languages since 1982, and since 1986 consulting as well.  He created the Colbert Object–Oriented Software Development method (“OOSD”), which supports analysis and design for implementation in languages such as Ada, C++, Java, and Smalltalk.  NASA Langley Research Center used OOSD for a Software Engineering Process Guide.  OOSD was chosen partly for its strength in real–time software development.  Ed is currently training software projects at Lockheed and Computer Science Corporation on the application of Ada, C++, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML).  He is also consulting with e–SIM on software development using RapidPLUS, and with U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, and Honeywell Technology Center, on the definition of an Architecture Design Language (ADL) for real-time, safety-critical systems based on UML and Honeywell’s MetaH; the ADL will be proposed as the standard of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

Ed recently consulted on applying object–oriented methods and UML on satellite communication software projects at TRW.  Ed was a methodological consultant for Aonix on applying object–oriented methods with their Software Through Pictures CASE tool, for Information Management Associates on their call center software, for Honeywell on their Meta–CASE Tool DoME (Domain Modeling Environment), for KPMG Peat Marwick and Pacific Bell on credit–card accounting and fraud–detection systems, for the Semiconductor Manufacturing Association (SEMATECH) on Computer Integrated Semiconductor Manufacturing (CIM), for Lockheed Martin Vought Systems and Texas Instruments on command & control systems, and for Contel’s Bids Management System.  He developed CASE tool support for Pulinco AG’s business modeling and design method.  He was principal developer of the final version of the “Ada for Designers” course for TRW Defense Systems Group.  At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his Ada prototype of a portion of the Real–Time Weather Processor (RWP) Project was ported to three compilers for two different machines; and on the Global Decision Support System (GDSS), a distributed database system for the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command, he designed and developed common application software and portions of two applications.

Ed is a IEEE Senior Member and the chair of the Patterns Working Group of the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda, 1997–present), and was recently the SIGAda Vice–Chair for Liaison (Spring 1997 and 1989–95) and Ada Awareness Manager (1995–97).  In 1986–87 he was Chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on software engineering (SIGSoft), and in 1983–84 Chairman of Los Angeles SIGAda.  He has delivered presentations at TOOLS (2000, 1995), Ada Europe (England, 1997), TRI–Ada (1996, ’95, ’92, ’89, ’88), Ada UK (London, 1995), UNICOM (England, 1993), OOPSLA (Washington, D.C., 1993), Object Expo (New York, 1993), Object Expo – Europe (England, 1992), LOOK (Denmark, 1992), OOP (Germany, 1992), SCOOP – Europe (England, 1991), ASEET (1988), the IEEE/ACM Fall Joint Computer Conference (1987).

Previously Ed spent five years at TRW, where he was Principal Investigator on the Ada PDL IR&D for the Information & System Software Laboratory of the Defense System Group (IR&D Roll of Honor, 1986).  Ed worked on the U.S. Army Secure Operating System (ASOS) project, which was developed in Ada and supports Ada programs that require either multilevel or dedicated security.  He was a member of the Ada Coördinating Group of TRW’s Electronics and Defense Sector, and a reviewer of the Ada Reference Manual and of the U.S. Army’s Ada Design Methodology Formulation Study. 

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