Home›Software And Its Engineering›Born›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sThis dimension groups computing pioneers by the year they were born, showing which generation of the field they belong to. Wikipedia notes that the history of computing "extends beyond the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology," spanning a very long line of contributors born across many different generations. Browsing by born year lets a visitor compare pioneers from the same generation.Facts1940sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1965 CE 11940sFilter Results72 entriesFieldAllCompilers and Language Implementation (11)Formal Methods and Verification (14)Operating Systems Software (8)Programming Language Designers (17)Software Engineering Methodology and Process (18)Software Tools and Development Environments (3)ACM AreaAllOperating Systems (2)Software Engineering (1)GroupAllCompilers and Language Implementation (11)Formal Methods and Verification (14)Operating Systems Software (8)Programming Language Designers (17)Software Engineering Methodology and Process (18)Software Tools and Development Environments (3)NationalityAllCanada (3)China (1)Denmark (1)France (3)India (2)Israel (1)Italy (1)Netherlands (1)Russia (1)United Kingdom (3)United States (22)BrowseCompareSelect all 72Adele Goldberg1940sAlain Colmerauer1940sAlan Kay1940sAlfred Aho1940sAllan L. Scherr1940sAmir Pnueli1940sAnders P. Ravn1940sAndrew S. Tanenbaum1940sAndrey Terekhov1940sAnthony James Barr1940sBill Curtis1940sBob Frankston1940sBrad Cox1940sBrian Kernighan1940sColette Rolland1940sCornelis H. A. Koster1940sDan Ingalls1940sDaniel P. Friedman1940sDave Cutler1940sDavid Parnas1940sDennis E. Wisnosky1940sDennis Ritchie1940sEdmund M. Clarke1940sEdward Yourdon1940sEdwin E. Tozer1940sEric Hehner1940sEvi Nemeth1940sGary Kildall1940sGerald Jay Sussman1940sGillian Lovegrove1940sGordon Plotkin1940sHal Abelson1940sHe Jifeng1940sJ Strother Moore1940sJames Rumbaugh1940sJan Dietz1940sJean Ichbiah1940sJeanne Ferrante1940sJeffrey Ullman1940sJohn Mylopoulos1940sJon Michael Dunn1940sJoseph Goguen1940sJoseph Sifakis1940sKen Thompson1940sL. Peter Deutsch1940sLarry Constantine1940sLawrence M. Breed1940sLeonardo Chiariglione1940sLes Hatton1940sManfred Broy1940sMartin Richards1940sMathai Joseph1940sNeil D. Jones1940sPatrick Cousot1940sPeter Bernus1940sPeter J. Denning1940sPeter J. Weinberger1940sRadhia Cousot1940sRavi Sethi1940sRaymond Thompson1940sReinhard Wilhelm1940sRichard DeMillo1940sRichard P. Gabriel1940sRobert Dewar1940sRobert L. Constable1940sStephen C. Johnson1940sStephen R. Bourne1940sSusan L. Graham1940sTom DeMarco1940sTom Maibaum1940sVictor Basili1940sWarren Teitelman1940sSources1. Wikipedia: Software engineeringtier 2WikipediaSoftware engineering, Origin of the term section, pioneer subcategory useQuote, Software engineering, Origin of the term section, pioneer subcategory useThe term appeared in a list of services offered by companies in the June 1965 issue of "Computers and Automation" and was used more formally in the August 1966 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 9, number 8) in "President's Letter to the ACM Membership" by Anthony A. Oettinger.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.