Facts: - doctoral students: peter g. harrison - known for: lehman 's laws of software evolution - thesis year: 1957 - death date: 29 december 2010 - workplaces: ferranti - spouse: chava robinson -lrb- m. 1953 -rrb- - awards: harlan -rrb- d. mills award -lrb- 2001 -rrb- -lrb- 2012 - birth date: 24 january 1925 - thesis title: parallel arithmetic units and their control - name: manny lehman - death place: jerusalem , israel - birth place: germany Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of manny lehman -lrb- computer scientist -rrb- .
meir '' manny '' lehman , freng -lrb- january 24 , 1925 -- december 29 , 2010 -rrb- was a professor in the school of computing science at middlesex university .from 1972 to 2002 he was a professor and head of the computing department at imperial college london .his research contributions include the early realization of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous lehman 's laws of software evolution .