1. Academic Genealogy (What 17 th Century Mathematicians have to do with COCOMO) Dr. Ricardo Valerdi MIT

2. Cedalion standing on the shoulders of Orion from Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin (1658)

3. In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton famously remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke (discussing experiments in optics): "What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

4. 1666-present > 30 descendants (1993-present) Barry Boehm, UCLA (1964) Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr., University of Kansas (1957) Robert Schatten, Columbia University (1943) Francis Joseph Murray, Columbia University (1936) Bernard Osgood Koopman, Harvard University (1926) George David Birkhoff, University of Chicago (1907) Eliakim Hastings Moore, Yale University (1885) Hubert Anson Newton, Yale University (1850) Michel Chasles, École Polytechnique (1814) Simeon Denis Poisson, École Polytechnique (1800) Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace Leonhard Euler, Universität Basel (1726) Johann Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1694) Jacob Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1676) Nicolas Malebranche, T (1672) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Universität Altdorf (1666) Source: http://www.genealogy.ams.org/

5. Presented to Barry on the celebration of the 25 th COCOMO Forum at the University of Southern California by his students Alexander Egyed (1998) Teknowledge Corporation, Johannes Kepler University Cristina Gacek (1998) IESE, U. Newcastle Keun Lee (2006) Samsung Apurva Jain (2007) Software Metrics Hasan Kitapci (2007) Vu Nguyen (2010) Yue Chen (2007) Cisco Dan Wu (2007) Microsoft Alexander Lam (2008) The Aerospace Corporation Ali Afzal Malik (2010) Zhihao Scott Chen (2006) Motorola Alexander Egyed (1998) Teknowledge Corp. Johannes Kepler University Jongmoon Baik (2000) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Sue Koolmanojwong (2010) Jesal Bhuta (2007) Infosys DeWitt T. Latiner (2008) U.S. Air Force Jared Fortune (2009) The Aerospace Corporation Monvorath Phongpaibul (2007) IBM Chris Abts (2004) Texas A&M, Booze Allen JoAnn Lane (2009) USC LiGuo Huang (2006) Southern Methodist University Ye Yang (2006) Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Ricardo Valerdi (2005) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sunita Chulani (1999) IBM Research, Cisco Mohammed Al-Said (2003) Saudi Aramco Hoh Peter In (1998) Texas A&M, Korea University Allen Peter Nikora (1998) NASA, JPL Brad Clark (1997) Software Metrics Ming June Lee (1996) Yimin Bao (1996) Ahmed Abd-el-Shafy Abd-Allah (1996) Prasanta Bose (1993) Texas Instruments, USC, George Mason, Lockheed Martin Ray Madachy (1994) USC, Naval Postgraduate School November 3, 2010