David Parnas - Biography

Biography

Parnas earned his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in electrical engineering. Parnas also earned a professional engineering license in Canada and was one of the first to apply traditional engineering principles to software design. He worked there as a professor for many years. He also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.S.), the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland).

David Parnas received several awards and honors

  • ACM "Best Paper" Award, 1979
  • Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, 1987
  • Two "Most Influential Paper" awards International Conference on Software Engineering, 1991 and 1995
  • Doctor honoris causa of the Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 1986
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1994
  • Doctor honoris causa of the Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1996
  • ACM SIGSOFT's "Outstanding Research" award, 1998
  • IEEE Computer Society's 60th Anniversary Award, 2007
  • Doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland, 2008
  • Fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2008
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009
  • Ehrendoktorwürde der Technische Universität Wien (Dr. Tech.H.C.), Vienna Austria, 2011

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