Edward Yourdon

    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)