Munich / New York / Zurich / Rome / Cambridge / Garmisch / Brussels / Chicago / /
Company
APL / MIT Press / Special Interest Groups / SABRE / Oxford University Press / Algol / Transcendent Software / IFIP Working Group / Honeywell / C.A.R. Hoare / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Germany / Italy / United States / / /
Event
Product Recall / FDA Phase / Product Issues / /
Facility
University of Edinburgh / University of Warwick / Computer History Museum / University of Pennsylvania / /
IndustryTerm
software engineering / experimental systems / system utilities / good data processing applications / large scale systems software / word software / software tools / similar tools / industrial manufacturing / system software / software development / textual processing / software researchers / final product / systems software / advertising supplement / course computing research / computing / computer manufacturers / information processing sciences / even operating systems / adequate programming tool / software houses / actual systems / attendant software crisis / online military system / automata and computing theory / data processing lexicon / software engineering conferences / software crisis / airline reservation system / /
OperatingSystem
Scope / CTSS / OS/360 / Multics / /
Organization
International Federation for Information Processing Societies / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Data Processing Management Association / University of Edinburgh / European Union / University of Warwick / IFIP WG / Oxford University / NATO Science Committee / University of Pennsylvania / MIT / Carnegie Mellon / NATO Scientific Affairs Division / ACM committee / Association for Computing Machinery / federal government / Association for Computing Machinery Promotion of Professional Development / Science Affairs Division / IBM Watson Lab. / Stanford / /
Person
Atsushi Akera / Buxton / Nathan Ensmenger / Thomas J. Bergin / Thomas Haigh / Donald MacKenzie / Frederik Nebeker / Richard L Wexelblat / Ulf Hashagen / William Aspray / Donn B. Parker / Arthur L. Norberg / Wybe Dijkstra / David Edgerton / Reinhard Keil-Slawik / Peter Naur / Niklaus Wirth / Van Wijngararden / Doug McIllroy / Doug Ross / Brian Randell / John McCarthy / Alan J Perlis / Jonathan P. Bowen / Adriaan van Wijngaarden / Rick G Gibson / Friedrich L. Bauer / Alan J. Perlis / Edsger Dijkstra / John Backus / Gerard Alberts / R. Hoare / Stuart S Shapiro / Michael Mahoney / Karel van Oudheusden / /
Position
computer specialist / systems programmer / professor / programmer / Editor / one of the original founders / Emperor / programming language specialist / /
Dijkstra’s Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering, [removed]Thomas Haigh, [removed], www.tomandmaria.com/tom Draft for discussion in SOFT-EU Project Meeting, September 2010