Yourdon, Edward Nash
YOURDON, Edward Nash
YOURDON, Edward Nash. American. Genres: Information science/ Computers. Career: Computer expert and consultant. Worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and General Electric. Cutter Consortium, chairman; Cutter IT Journal, editor; Yourdon Inc. (publishing and consulting services in software engineering technology), founder and chief executive officer, 1974-. Technology Transfer, research project advisor on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union; U.S. Department of Defense, member of expert advisory panel on I-CASE acquisition; Digital Consulting, Software World and CASE world conferences, conference chairperson and speaker, 1990-95; has lectured at universities. Publications: COMPUTER DESIGN AND SOFTWARE: Design of On-Line Computer Systems, 1972; Techniques of Program Structure and Design, 1975; How to Manage Structured Programming, 1976; (with T.R. Lister) Learning to Program in Structured COBOL, Part I, 1978, Part II, 1978, as Learning to Program in Structured COBOL: Parts 1 and 2, 1979; (with L.L. Constantine) Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design, 1979; Structured Walkthroughs, 1979; Managing the System Life Cycle: A Software Development Methodology Overview, 1982; Coming of Age in the Land of Computers: A Parent's Guide to Computers for Children, 1985; The Perils of Personal Computing, 1985; Nations at Risk: The Impact of the Computer Revolution, 1986; Modern Structured Analysis, 1989; (with P. Coad) Object-Oriented Analysis, 1990, 1991; (with P. Coad) Object-Oriented Design, 1991; Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, 1992; Object-Oriented Systems Design: An Integrated Approach, 1994; Mainstream Objects: An Analysis and Design Approach for Business, 1995; (with C. Argila) Case Studies in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, 1995; Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer, 1997; Death March: Managing Mission Impossible Projects, 1997; (with J. Yourdon) Time Bomb 2000! What the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Means to You!, 1997. OTHER: Silent Witness: A Novel of Computer Crime, 1982. EDITOR: Classics in Software Engineering, 1979; Managing the Structured Techniques, 1979; Writings of the Revolution: Selected Readings on Software Engineering, 1982. Address: c/o Prentice Hall Inc., 1 Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, U.S.A.