Bob Lechner, one of the old CDIF people (my Intro to CDIF, although mostly only of historical interest now, is still on-line), gave me this picture taken at a CDIF meeting which took place — if I recall this correctly — in January 1996.

It was taken on the deck of the Del Coronado Hotel, a very nice, historical hotel in San Diego. While the Object Management Group, with whom we were meeting, were done with their program, we hard-core CDIF people moved to the deck and did some serious meta-modeling! (To the utter bewilderment of the tourists on deck).

From the left: Conrad Bock (now with NIST), Rob Hill (entrepreneur, then “just retired” from Sybase), Woody Pidcock (of the Boeing Company), and myself (then with Integrated Systems, which was later acquired by Wind River Systems).