(728 pages 21 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.)
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Software Engineering --; From Auxiliary to Key Technology --; The Relevance of the Software Pioneers for sd & m --; From the Stack Principle to ALGOL --; Sequentielle Formelübersetzung --; Verfahren zur automatischen Verarbeitung von kodierten Daten und Rechenmaschinen zur Ausübung des Verfahrens --; The Roots of Object Orientation: The Simula Language --; Class and Subclass Declarations --; Pascal and Its Successors --; The Programming Language Pascal --; Program Development by Stepwise Refinement --; The IBM Operating System/360 --; The Functional Structure of OS/360 --; Graphical User Interfaces --; B-Trees and Databases, Past and Future --; Organization and Maintenance of Large Ordered Indexes --; A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks --; Entity-Relationship Modeling: Historical Events Future Trends and Lessons Learned --; The Entity Relationship Model --; Toward a Unified View of Data --; EWD 1308: What Led to "Notes on Structured Programming" --; Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control --; Go To Statement Considered Harmful --; Assertions: A Personal Perspective --; An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming --; Proof of Correctness of Data Representations --; The Secret History of information Hiding --; On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules --; On a "Buzzword": Hierarchical Structure --; Abstract Data Types, Then and Now --; Abstract Data Types and the Development of Data Structures --; JSP in Perspective --; Constructive Methods of Program Design --; Structured Analysis: Beginnings of a New Discipline --; Structure Analysis and System Specification --; A History of Software Inspections --; Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Program Development --; Advances in Software Inspections --; Early Experiences in Software Economics --; Software Engineering Economics --; Design Patterns --; Ten Years Later --; Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design.
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This book, coming with four DVDs, presents epochal works of 16 of the most influential software pioneers. Seminal historical papers, going back as far as to the 1950s, are complemented by new papers especially written by the software pioneers for inclusion in this book and by short biographical notes. The volume is based on a conference where the pioneers met and presented their assessment of the past, new ideas, and visions for the future. The volume editors coherently integrated the historical contributions with current aspects and future perspectives. The four DVDs included are an important supplement to the book providing more than 12 hours of video documentation. Besides a representative overview drawing together the highlights of the presentations, the video recording of each pioneer's talk together with the transparencies used is included. Together, the book and the four DVDs constitute a unique and major contribution to the history of software engineering.