Trygve Reenskaug

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Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug (born 1930) is a Norwegian computer scientist. He formulated the model-view-controller pattern for GUI software design in 1979, while visiting Xerox Parc.

By his own admission "The hardest part was to hit upon good names for the different architectural components. Model-View-Editor was the first set".

He has been extensively involved in research in object oriented methods, and developed the OOram role modeling method and tool in 1983. He founded the IT company Taskon in 1986, which developed tools based on the OORam method.

Reenskaug wrote the book Working With Objects: The OOram Software Engineering Method with co-authors P. Wold and O. A. Lehne.

Later, he worked with the development of UML. Currently he is professor emeritus of informatics at the University of Oslo.

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• Personal home page at the University of Oslo
• History of the MVC Pattern