Yourdon, Inc.
<company> The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide
educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software
engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of
over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the
company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around
the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the
French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division,
Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical
computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these
"classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
(1995-04-16)
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