Prominent Figures in The History of Software Engineering
- Charles Bachman (born 1924) is particularly known for his work in the area of databases.
- Laszlo Belady (born 1928) the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering in the 1980s
- Fred Brooks (born 1931) best known for managing the development of OS/360.
- Peter Chen, known for the development of entity-relationship modeling.
- Edsger Dijkstra (1930–2002) developed the framework for proper programming.
- David Parnas (born 1941) developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming.
- Michael A. Jackson (born 1936) software engineering methodologist responsible for JSP method of program design; JSD method of system development (with John Cameron); and Problem Frames method for analysing and structuring software development problems.
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