2012
Reflections on 20 Years of Software Architecture: A Presentation by Linda Northrop
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By Bill Pollak,
Transition Manager
Research, Technology, & System Solutions
A
search on the term "software architecture" on the web as it existed in
1992 yielded 88,700 results. In May, during a panel providing a 20-year
retrospective on software architecture hosted at the SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN)
conference, moderator Rick Kazman noted that on the day of the panel
discussion—May 9, 2012— that same search yielded 2,380,000 results. This
30-fold increase stems from various factors, including the steady
growth in system complexity, the increased awareness of the importance
of software architecture on system quality attributes, and the quality
and impact of efforts by the SEI and other groups conducting research
and transition activities on software architecture. This blog
posting—the first in a series—provides a lightly edited transcription of
the presentation of the first panelist, Linda Northrop, director of the SEI’s Research, Technology, & System Solutions (RTSS) Program at the SEI, who provided an overview of the evolution of software architecture work at the SEI during the past twenty years.
For more than 10 years, scientists, researchers, and engineers used the 
This post is the second installment in a two-part series describing our recent engagement with 
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