from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)