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Edward Yourdon

American software engineer and pioneer in the software engineering methodology (1944-2016)
Person Human Q2497863

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[10]
Date of birth
April 30, 1944
Date of death
January 20, 2016
Country of citizenship
United States[6]
Occupation
engineer, computer scientist, writer
Employer
Digital Equipment Corporation[8]
Field of work
computer science[7]
Educated at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology[9]
Official website
www.yourdon.com[13]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[14]
Family name
Yourdon[11]
Given name
Edward[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Edward Nash Yourdon en Edward Yourdon ar إدوارد يوردون cs E. Yourdon cs Ed Yourdon cs Edward Nash Yourdon fa یوردن، ادوارد ja エドワード・ヨードン ko 에드워드 요던 pt Edward Nash Yourdon pt Edward N. Yourdon ru Йордан, Эдвард ru Эдвард Йордан uk Едвард Юрдон zh 愛德華·尤登 zh-hans 爱德华·尤登
🔖 Identifiers · 44
ISNI
0000000083682035
VIAF cluster ID
29681125
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n79081543
GND ID
1089340443
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Yourdon, Edward (2008).jpg ↗
ACM Digital Library author ID
81405596230
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13474974q
CONOR.SI ID
28249187
CiNii Research ID
1140282266811189888
DBLP author ID
14/4816
DDB person (GND) ID
1089340443
Databazeknih.cz author ID
127089
Show all 44 identifiers +32
FOLDOC ID
Edward+Yourdon
Freebase ID
/m/04m3_5
Goodreads author ID
30682
IEEE Xplore author ID
37347261900
IdRef ID
035102527
J9U entity ID
987007272355105171
KBR person ID
13993349
Libraries Australia ID
35625298
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA0133883X
NDL Authority ID
00461668
NL CR AUT ID
vse2010558394
NLA Trove people ID
1019738
NLAI ID
152330
NUKAT ID
n94302299
National Library of Korea ID
KAC199700170
National Library of Latvia ID
000139441
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810629681205606
National Virtual Library of India ID
285443
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
069388334
Obálky knih ID
vse2010558394
Open Library ID
OL382590A
Parsifal cluster ID
901535
SHARE Catalogue author ID
9719
SNAC ARK ID
w6vg2971
SVKKL authority ID
p0081540-Yourdon-Edward-1944
Scopus author ID
56636580700
UOM ID
5462
Unz Review author ID
YourdonEdward
WikiTree person ID
Yourdon-22
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/079805d5-e152-422b-a9a0-0b955c8d9ed1
ZbMATH author ID
yourdon.edward

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Occupation 3
writer, engineer, computer scientist
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Educated at 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employer 1
Digital Equipment Corporation
Field of work 1
computer science
Given name 1
Edward
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Sex or gender 1
male
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Summary

Edward Yourdon was born on April 30, 1944[1]. He died on January 20, 2016[2]. He worked as an engineer[3], computer scientist[4], and writer[5].

FAQs

What did Edward Yourdon do for work?

Edward Yourdon worked as an engineer[3], computer scientist[4], and writer[5].

Where did Edward Yourdon go to school?

Edward Yourdon was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[9].

Related Entities

computer science computer scientist Digital Equipment Corporation Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States

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  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [1] ↑ . SNAC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Kggucwa · 2026-11-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Added [pl] description: amerykański informatyk"
  2. 19w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 901535
    "Created claim: Parsifal cluster ID: 901535, batch #259862"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → p0081540-Yourdon-Edward-1944
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: p0081540-Yourdon-Edward-1944, batch #259494"
  4. 24w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    J9U entity ID → 987007272355105171
    Educated at → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    SHARE Catalogue author ID → 9719
    Libraries Australia ID → 35625298
    + 52 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #32082: import P21 and P106 from GND (24)"
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