Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Shlaer received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1960 from Stanford University and started a graduate study at the Australian National University. At Stanford Shlaer had started programming in Fortran and assembler. In 1965 she started as a software engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In 1977 she became project manager in software development at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where she guided the development of a new Integrated Control System for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System.
At Lawrence Berkeley, Laboratory Shlaer met Stephen J. Mellor, with whom she developed the Shlaer–Mellor method for software development. In 1985 together they founded the software development firm Project Technology Incorporated.
Shlaer was also a Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery. In the developing of a new control system for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, Shlaer and Mellor sought to regulate mechanisms of software development and began to design new methods of project management.
This resulted in the development of the Shlaer–Mellor method, which in the new millennium has evolved into Executable UML.