James W. Moore Receives IEEE Standards Association´s ´International Award´

James W. Moore has received the IEEE Standards Association´s 2007
International Award for his "considerable contribution to the IEEE
Computer Society Software and Systems Engineering Standards Collection
(S2ESC) and the international collection of software engineering
standards supported by ISO/IEC."

The award is presented annually to an individual who has made
extraordinary contributions to the advancement of the international
goals of the IEEE-SA.

Moore, an IEEE Fellow, is a 35-year veteran of software
engineering with tenures at IBM and MITRE Corporation. Since 2001, Mr.
Moore has been intensely involved in software and systems engineering
standardization for the IEEE, serving as the IEEE Computer Society´s
liaison to the international standards organization ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7
and as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Software and
Systems Engineering Standards Committee.

"I am happy to accept this award on behalf of the dozens of
individuals who have been working toward this shared goal of
establishing international software engineering standards," says
Moore.

"One of the real problems in this field," says Moore, "has been
that the international collection of software engineering standards
and the IEEE collection of standards, although they mostly agree,
weren´t written to work together. They were written independently and
sometimes have odd disagreements, creating confusion in the
marketplace. Over the last seven years, we have managed to complete
roughly a dozen projects which resulted in one organization accepting
the standard of the other organization or both organizations accepting
the same document.

"To me, the real value of this award is recognizing that this work
is important," says Moore.

Previous recipients of the IEEE-SA International Award include Ben
C. Johnson, Roger B. Marks, Denis L. Dufournet, Carl R. Stevenson,
Michael R. Murphy, Ronald C. Petersen and Wallace S. Read.

Moore´s latest book on software engineering standards, The Road
Map to Software Engineering: A Standards-Based Guide, was published in
2006 by John Wiley & Sons. He also serves the IEEE Computer Society as
a member of its Board of Governors and chairs its Professional
Practices Committee. He is an executive editor of the Society´s Guide
to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge and a member of the
editorial board of the recent revision of the Encyclopedia of Software
Engineering. The IEEE Computer Society has recognized him as a charter
member of their Golden Core; the IEEE selected him as a recipient of
their Third Millennium Award.

About the IEEE Standards Association

The IEEE Standards Association, a globally recognized
standards-setting body, develops consensus standards through an open
process that brings diverse parts of industry together. These
standards set specifications and procedures based on current
scientific and technological consensus. The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of
over 870 active standards and more than 400 standards under
development. For information on IEEE-SA see:
http://standards.ieee.org/.

About the IEEE

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
is the world´s largest technical professional society. Through its
more than 370,000 members in 160 countries, the organization is a
leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace
systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering,
electric power and consumer electronics. Dedicated to the advancement
of technology, the IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world´s literature
in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science
fields, and has developed nearly 900 active industry standards. The
organization also sponsors or co-sponsors over 450 international
technical conferences each year. Additional information about the IEEE
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