Manny Lehman (computer scientist)
Manny Lehman | |
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| Born | 24 January 1925 Germany |
| Died | 29 December 2010 (aged 85) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Lehman's laws of software evolution |
| Spouse | Chava Robinson (m. 1953) |
| Awards | Harlan D. Mills Award (2001) FREng (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ferranti Ministry of Defense (Israel) IBM Imperial College London Middlesex University |
| Thesis | Parallel Arithmetic Units and Their Control (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | K. D. Tocher |
| Doctoral students | Peter G. Harrison |
Meir "Manny" Lehman, FREng (24 January 1925 – 29 December 2010) was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. From 1972 to 2002 he was a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution.