Grady Booch, Chief Scientist at Rational, is recognized throughout the international software development community for his pioneering work in object methods and applications. He is the author of several best-selling books on software engineering and object-oriented development and he is a feature columnist in Object Magazine and the C++ Report. Grady Boch, along with Ivar Jacobson and Jim Rumbaugh, also acts as a Series Editor and contributes to the Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series.