Former Professor Rombach Honored at 60th Birthday Celebration

One June 7th 2013, Dieter Rombach, a former professor at UMD was given a Festakt to celebrate his 60th birthday. The program was held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and attended by several German dignitaries. Professor Basili was on the program to honor him. In the afternoon a technical symposium was held at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and presentations were given by Professors Basili and Shull., along with several others including Professors Barry Boehm (University of Southern California, Lee Osterwiel (University of Massachusetts), Manfred Broy Technical University of Munich), and Lionel Briand (University of Luxemburg). Professor Cleaveland presented Professor Rombach with a plaque for his support of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering at Maryland.