IBM's Booch Fights Health Challenge

to take on a major health concern:

He is now in the Mayo Clinic awaiting surgery, and has continued providing updates as of earlier this week.

Booch, 51, is chief scientist for IBM's Rational Software line, and helped develop the Unified Modeling Language of software. So his most recent observation from Mayo, posted to his blog, should not be surprising:

Visitors to his blog have been leaving their well wishes.