Model View Controller vs Boundary Control Entity

BCE was published by Ivar Jacobson (Ericsson Co.) in 80's with focus of separating responsibilities of elements in Object Oriented Systems. MVC was published by Trygve Reenskaug (XEROX Co.) in 70's with focus of implementing selectable user interfaces.

Here is a discussion of ECB by Adam Bien, which includes the difference between MVC and ECB. Adam says that ECB is a "glorified MVC," and ECB is used more often in business logic whereas MVC is used more often in the user interface.