Harlan Mills

Name: Harlan B. Mills

Born: May 14, 1919

Death: January 8, 1996 (Age: 77)

Computer-related contributions

• Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology.
• Founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida (since acquired by Q-Labs).

Significant publications

• The Management of Software Engineering, Part I: Principles of Software Engineering (1999).
• Zero Defect Software: Cleanroom Engineering (1993).
• Structured Methods for Systems Development with Objects (1993).
• Teaching principles of computer programming (1987).

Honors and awards

• IBM research fellow.
• Awardee, Distinguished Information Sciences Award, DPMA (1985).
• IEEE Computer Society created the Harlan D. Mills Award (1999).