Richard Mark Soley (born c. 1960, in

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, died 8 Nov., 2023, in

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) was an American computer scientist and businessman, and chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG). He was also the executive director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and executive director of the Industrial Internet Consortium, managed by the OMG.

Life and work

Soley studied Computer Science and Engineering at the

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, where he obtained his S.B. in 1982, his S.M. in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989. He began his professional life at

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, working on the Multics operating system. Soley joined OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's standardization process and the original

CORBA The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between sy ...

specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling. Those efforts made OMG a major early adopter of

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly ...

(UML) and

model-driven architecture Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model Driven Architecture is a kind of doma ...

(MDA). Soley was co-founder, former chairman, and CEO of A.I. Architects, Inc., a firm which manufactured hardware and software for

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s and

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s. He has also served as a consultant on matters relating to software investment opportunities for several corporations including

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, and

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. He also played a very significant role within the SEMAT initiative, launched in December 2009.

Selected publications

* Soley, Richard Mark. ''Object Management Architecture Guide: Revision 2.0.'' Wiley, 1995.

References

External links

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