Kim Waldén

Kim Waldén has a B.Sc. from the University of Stockholm and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology.

He was brought up with the object-oriented ideas through the Simula 67 language and was on the development team for the DEC-10 Simula compiler in the early 70s. For the second half of the 70s he was mainly engaged in design and implementation of hard real-time systems, and in the first half of the 80s he was a software engineering researcher in a joint venture between industry and academia, resulting in a thesis on software version control.

In 1987 Kim was the head of a methods department at Enea Data, a now 300-person consultant company in Sweden, when he read the first articles on O-O and Eiffel. He was immediately convinced that this was the right way to go, and in 1989 Enea became the Scandinavian distributor of Eiffel technology.

Since then he has been in close collaboration with Bertrand Meyer, Jean-Marc Nerson and the ISE staff. With Jean-Marc he developed the BON method (Business Object Notation) for O-O analysis and design. He also served as reviewer of several of Bertrand Meyer's books.

Kim has consulted extensively on O-O to Swedish industry and has given many international tutorials, particularly in the TOOLS conference series, where he has served as Program Committee member. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and NICE (the Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel).

Software Practice & Experience 1984.

IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 1987.

Industriell Datateknik 1988, 1989.

IEEE Computer 1996.