Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – Sept 3, 2008) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Hammer was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hammer and James A. Champy founded the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR). In which, they wrote "Re-engineering the Corporation: Manifesto for Business Revolution" in 1993. Source: Wikipedia (en)