Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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)