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Programming in a Prison Cell

Posted March 31, 1998 | Leadership | Leadership |

PROGRAMMING IN A PRISON CELL

1 April 1998

by Ed Yourdon

For a few weeks in January, the British computer company ICL investigated the possibility of hiring prisoners for their Y2000 projects.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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