[SIGCIS-Members] New book on Michael A. Jackson

[Edgar Daylight]

Dear fellow historians,

Just appeared: a conversation with Michael A. Jackson. 

title: Formalism and Intuition in Software Development.


Excerpt from the preface: "It is in the field of data processing that Jackson began his computing career,  encountering a computer for the first time in 1961. After starting his company  Michael Jackson Systems Ltd.  in 1971, he developed the Jackson structured  programming design method and later elaborated that into Jackson system  development (JSD). During these years, he began to realize that ..."


entire preface available here: www.dijkstrascry.com/node/132

The book can be purchased from Aamazon.

best wishes,
Edgar Daylight