About John D. Musa
Lived 1933 – 2009 (aged 75–76). John D. Musa was an electrical engineer.
John Davis Musa (1933 – April 25, 2009) was an American software engineer and a founding father of software reliability engineering.
Education and career Musa was born on Long Island, New York. He studied at Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1954 with a B.S. in engineering sciences and followed with an M.S. in electrical engineering at the same institution. Musa joined the US Navy after graduation as a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. In 1958, he joined the AT&T Bell Labs, where he first worked on the Nike Zeus anti-missile system. In 1987, Musa published the foundational book on the topic, named Software Reliability: Measurements, Prediction, Application, along with Bell Labs colleagues Anthony Iannino and Kazuhira Okumoto.
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Who was John D. Musa?
American software reliability engineer
When was John D. Musa born?
John D. Musa was born in 1933 in Long Island.
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John D. Musa died on 25 April 2009 in Morristown.
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John D. Musa was an electrical engineer.
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