Ivar jacobson biography

Swedish computer scientist and software engineer

Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈǐːvarˈjɑ̂ːkɔbˌsɔn]^ⓘ; born September 2, 1939) is a Swedishcomputer scientist and software engineer, known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development, and Essence.

Biography

Ivar Jacobson was born in Ystad, on September 2, 1939. He received his Master of Electrical Engineering degree at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg in 1962.

Ivar jacobson biography

After his work at Ericsson, he formalized the language and method he had been working on in his PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1985 on the thesis "Language Constructs for Large Real Time Systems".^{[citation needed]}

After his master's degree, Jacobson joined Ericsson and worked in R&D on computerized switching systems AKE^[1] and AXE including PLEX.

In April 1987, he started Objective Systems. A majorit