Tom DeMarco

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Tom DeMarco
Born (1940-08-20) August 20, 1940 (age 83)
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Paris
Known for Structured analysis
Awards Stevens Award (1999)
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Bell Labs

Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics. He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s.

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Early life and education

Tom DeMarco was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University, and a diplôme from the University of Paris. [1]

Career

DeMarco started working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System, which became installed in telephone offices all over the world. [2] Later in the 1960s he started working for a French IT consulting firm, where he worked on the development of a conveyor system for the new merchandise mart at La Villette in Paris, and in the 1970s on the development of on-line banking systems in Sweden, Holland, France and New York. [3]

In the 1970s DeMarco was one of the major figures in the development of structured analysis and structured design in software engineering. [4] In January 1978 he published Structured Analysis and System Specification, [5] a major milestone in the field. [4]

In the 1980s with Tim Lister, Stephen McMenamin, John F. Palmer, James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, he founded the consulting firm "The Atlantic Systems Guild" in New York. The Guild developed into a New York- and London-based consulting company specializing in methods and management of software development.[ citation needed ]

DeMarco has lectured and consulted throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Far East. [6]

He is a member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He lives in Camden, Maine, and is[ when? ] a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium. [1] DeMarco was the 1986 recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing", and the 1999 recipient of the Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development". [1]

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Tech and Business Books

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tom DeMarco". The Atlantic Systems Guild. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
  2. ↑ Tom DeMarco (2002) Structured Analysis: Beginnings of a New Discipline Archived March 3, 2004, at the Wayback Machine In: sd&m Conference 2001, Software Pioneers Eds.: M. Broy, E. Denert, Springer 2002.
  3. ↑ Tom DeMarco Archived November 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine ISRC Fellow. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
  4. 1 2 Ward, Paul T. (October 13, 1995). "Structured Analysis". In Allen Kent; James G. Williams (eds.). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 17 - Strategies in the Microprocess Industry to TCP/IP Internetworking: Concepts: Architecture: Protocols, and Tools. Taylor & Francis. pp. 51–89. ISBN   978-0-8247-2715-4.
  5. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1978). Structured Analysis and System Specification. Yourdon. ISBN   978-0-917072-07-9.
  6. ↑ "Tom DeMarco". Dorset House Publishing. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  7. ↑ Demarco, Tom; Lister, Timothy R. (2013). Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. ISBN   978-0321934116.
  8. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2001). Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN   978-0767907699.
  9. ↑ DeMarco, Tom; Hruschka, Peter; Lister, Timothy R.; McMenamin, Steve; Robertson, James; Robertson, Suzanne (2021). Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work. New Atlantic.
  10. ↑ DeMarco, Tom; Hruschka, Peter; Lister, Timothy R.; McMenamin, Steve; Robertson, James; Robertson, Suzanne (2013). Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN   9780133492279.
  11. ↑ Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister (2003). Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Project. Dorset House. ISBN   0932633609.
  12. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1997). The Deadline (A Novel About Project Management). New York: Dorset House.
  13. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1995). Why Does Software Cost So Much? (And Other Puzzles of the Information Age). New York: Dorset House. ISBN   978-0932633347.
  14. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1982). Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  15. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1980). Concise Notes on Software Engineering. New York: Yourdon Press. ISBN   0-917072-16-2.
  16. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (1979). Structured Analysis and System Specification. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN   978-0138543808.
  17. ↑ DeMarco, Tom; Lister, Timothy (1990). Software State of the Art: Selected Papers. New York: Dorset House. ISBN   978-0932633149.
  18. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2019). The One-Way Time Traveler. Artful Press. ISBN   978-0-9892820-4-8.
  19. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2016). A Ruby Beam of Light. Double Dragon. ISBN   978-1535437486.
  20. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2016). Airship Nation. Double Dragon. ISBN   978-1542459471.
  21. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2015). Als auf der Welt das Licht ausging. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag. ISBN   978-3446439603.
  22. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2001). Dark Harbor House. Down East Books. ISBN   978-0892725113.
  23. ↑ DeMarco, Tom (2003). Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie. Down East Books. ISBN   978-0892725861.
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