Biography
Watts Humphrey received a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Chicago, a master of science in physics from Illinois Institute of Technology physics department, and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
In the late 1960s, Humphrey headed the IBM software team that introduced the first software license. Humphrey was previously a Vice President at IBM.
Humphrey was a Fellow of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008). Humphrey received an Honorary Doctor of Software Engineering from the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. In 2003, Watts Humphrey was awarded the National Medal of Technology. The Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India is named after him.
He was the nephew of Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey
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