Edward Yourdon

person A software engineering consultant, widely known as

the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems

analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the

Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design.

He is also the editor of three software journals - American

Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development

Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and

products in the United States and several other countries

around the world.

Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT,

and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic

Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary

Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in

Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and

awards from other universities and professional societies

around the world.

He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including

positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his

career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers,

and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects

involving time-sharing and virtual memory.

In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He

is currently immersed in research in new developments in

software engineering, such as object-oriented software

development and system dynamics modelling.

Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he

has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on

computer crime and a book for the general public entitled

Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented

Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American

Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and

Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have

been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish,

Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his

articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer

journals.

He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences

around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for

Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an

advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software

industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a

member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for

the U.S. Department of Defense.

Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of

the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center

of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children,

and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together

through an Appletalk network.

(1995-04-16)