Yourdon, Inc.

Yourdon, Inc.

(company)The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon toprovide educational, publishing, and consulting services instate-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over thenext 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people,with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO ofthe company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986and eventually became part of CGI, the French softwarecompany that is now part of IBM. The publishing division,Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over150 technical computer books on a wide range of softwareengineering topics; many of these "classics" are used asstandard university computer science textbooks.