Upcoming Event: Annual Technology Workshop 2026
April 21 – 23, 2026
Welcome to the Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering!
The Boehm Center for Systems and Software Engineering (Boehm CSSE) is established to carry on the Barry Boehm legacy of research in the areas of system and software development practices and the evolution of these practices as well as the estimation of cost/schedule for all things related to software, systems, and system of systems (SoS) engineering and development.
Barry W. Boehm
Founding Director
May 16, 1935 – August 20, 2022
Barry W. Boehm was a University of Southern California Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Astronautics; the TRW Professor of Software Engineering; and Founding Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (USC CSSE). He was also the Chief Scientist of the DoD-Stevens-USC Systems Engineering Research Center, and a part-time employee of the Aerospace Corp. He received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1957, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1961 and 1964, all in Mathematics. He has also received honorary Sc.D. in Computer Science from the U. of Massachusetts in 2000 and in Software Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. See complete profile.
Learn more about Barry and Sharla Boehm’s history and legacy.
Call for MEMBERSHIP
By signing up for an annual membership, you will have a special designation as an Inaugural Member which will be acknowledged on the organization’s website and all upcoming events perpetually. All Boehm CSSE virtual events are free to members.
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Barry Boehm gave us the bridges for us to cross and share our wealth of knowledge. Let’s do what we are called to do.
