Jim McCarthy | |
Death Place: | --> |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | Author |
Notable Works: | Software for Your Head, Dynamics of Software Development |
Jim McCarthy is an author and keynote speaker on software engineering practices. While working at Microsoft, he led the team that developed Visual C++ and wrote Dynamics of Software Development (1995), which popularized applying the term bozo bit to human interaction. He also worked at Bell Laboratories and the Whitewater Group,[1] [2] and holds a key patent on instant messaging.[3]