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1a.: Fwd: NYC SPIN September 21 - Ed Yourdon: Beautiful Software

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Subject: NYC SPIN September 21 - Ed Yourdon: Beautiful Software
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*Date:* September 21, 2010
*Time:* 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
*Topic:* *Beautiful Software*
*Presenter:* *Ed Yourdon*
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*Abstract - Beautiful Software*

Obviously, nobody wants to build "bad" software -- i.e., software that's
full of bugs, delivered late, and over budget. And our industry has spent a
great deal of time and energy during the past 40 years (ever since the 1969
NATO conference on software engineering, if not earlier) trying to figure
out how to develop "good" software -- i.e., software that's delivered on
time, under budget, meets the user's needs, and has few if any bugs.

But that's not the same as "beautiful" software -- software that makes you
gasp with delight and shake your head in wonder, not just the first time you
see it, but *every* time. What *is* beautiful software -- how would we know
it when (if) we saw it? Why should we want to develop beautiful software --
and, no, that's *not* a rhetorical question, because it turns out that a lot
of people really don't want to ... or at least don't want it badly enough. *
Who* develops (or has developed) beautiful software? How do they do it? What
should *we* do in order to develop beautiful software?

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*Biography - Ed Yourdon*

<http://www.yourdon.com/images/portraits/sidebarportrait.jpg>
*Edward Yourdon* is an internationally-recognized expert witness and
computer consultant who specializes in project management, software
engineering methodologies, and Web 2.0 development. He is the author of over
550 technical articles and more than two dozen books, including: *Outsource:
competing in the global productivity
race<http://www.amazon.com/OUTSOURCE-Competing-Global-Productivity-Race/dp/0131475711?ie=UTF8&tag=nycspin-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969>
*; *Byte Wars<http://www.amazon.com/Byte-Wars-September-Information-Technology/dp/0130477257?ie=UTF8&tag=nycspin-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969>
*; *Managing High-Intensity Internet
Projects<http://www.amazon.com/Managing-High-Intensity-Internet-Projects-Yourdon/dp/0130621102?ie=UTF8&tag=nycspin-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969>
;* *Object-Oriented Systems Design: An Integrated Approach*; *Death
March<http://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013143635X?ie=UTF8&tag=nycspin-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969>
*; *Rise and Resurrection of the American
Programmer<http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-American-Programmer-Paperback-Yourdon/dp/B000L74T0Y?ie=UTF8&tag=nycspin-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969>
*; and* Decline and Fall of the American Programmer*.

Ed has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years, beginning
when Digital Equipment Corporation hired him in 1964 to write the FORTRAN
math library for the PDP-5 and the assembler for the popular PDP-8
minicomputer. During his career, he has worked on over 25 different
mainframe computers and was involved in a number of pioneering computer
technologies, such as time-sharing operating systems and virtual memory
systems.

Along the way in his long and eventful career Ed founded and was CEO of
YOURDON Inc., an international consulting, software development, publishing,
and training company. He eventually sold that company, which, after
additional mergers and such, is now part of IBM.

Ed is currently CEO of NODRUOY Inc. a computer consulting, publishing, and
research firm based in New York City. He is also the Director of the
Business/IT Trends Service for the Cutter Consortium, of which he is a
co-founder and chairman. He serves as Editor Emeritus of the Consortium's
flagship publication, the Cutter IT Journal.

Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1965 and has
carried out 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, and has lectured at MIT, Harvard,
UCLA, Berkeley, and other universities around the world. He has been quoted
in and interviewed by numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian
Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, The Times of India, Newsweek, and several
computer trade publications. He has also been interviewed on numerous
television news shows and radio programs, including Fox News, the ABC
Evening News, CNBC, and National Public Radio.

According to the December 1999 issue of Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense
Software Engineering, Ed Yourdon is one of the ten most influential men and
women in the software field. In June 1997, he was inducted into the Computer
Hall of Fame, along with such notables as Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray,
James Martin, Grace Hopper, Gerald Weinberg, and Bill Gates. Ed is widely
known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the
1970s, as well as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of
object-oriented analysis/design and the popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology
of the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the
Second International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering in 1988
for his contributions to the promotion of Structured Methods for the
improvement of Information Systems Development, leading to the CASE field.
He was selected as an Honored Member of Who's Who in the Computer Industry
in 1989. And he was given the Productivity Award in 1992 by Computer
Language magazine, for his book Decline and Fall of the American Programmer.

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