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Dr. Alien Dutoit works in the aerospace industry in the area of avionics software
development. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and his Dipl6me
d'Ingenieur from the Swiss Federal institute of Technology in Lausanne. He has taught software
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engineering project courses with Professor Bruegge since 1993, both at Carnegie Mellon
University and the Technische Universitat Munchen, where they used and refined the methods
described in this book. Dutoit's research covered several areas of software engineering and
object-oriented systems, including requirements engineering, rationale management, distributed
development, and prototype-based systems. He was previously affiliated with the Software
Engineering institute and the institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon
University.
OPener Pictures
The pictures at the beginning of each chapter are from an Alpine-style ascent of the West
Rib of Denali (6, 193 m) made by one of the authors before starting to work on this book. During
this trip, the analogy between software development and mountaineering became more than
obvious. The pictures chronicle the climb, showing our expedition car on the Alaskan Canadian
Highway, a view of Mt. Robson with the Kain Face (Chapter 1), a view of Denali from the plane
(Chapters 2 and 4), the beginning of the West Rib (Chapter 3), a look 1000 meters down from
the top of the West Rib showing our foot tracks on the East Kahiltna Glacier (Chapter 5), Mt.
Foraker from Camp 5 (Chapter 6), a beautiful but difficult edge around 5,000m (Chapter 7), the
Base Camp of the normal route where we reused the remains of an igloo (Chapter 8), the landing
area for Doug Geeting's plane (Chapter 9), a bivouac place at the top of the West Rib named
"Hotel Crux," because one cannot dig an area big enough for a tent (Chapter 10), crossing the
Bergschrund (Chapter I l), a fresh avalanche area (Chapter 12), Denali with the Cassin Ridge
(Chapter 13), plans for different routes to the summit (Chapter 14), a "horizontal" sunrise at the
start of the Cassin Ridge (Chapter 15), and the summit of Denali (Chapter 16).
The cover picture shows the summit of K2.
picture shows the summit of K2.
