http://www.metafilter.com/tags/SoftwareEngineering Posts tagged with 'SoftwareEngineering' at MetaFilter. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:16:22 -0800 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:16:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73141/The%2DWorlds%2DFirst%2DSoftware%2DEngineer <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-caminer-system-designer-behind-leo-the-worlds-first-business-computer-854283.html">The World's First Software Engineer</a> David Caminer, the System designer behind LEO, the world's first business computer, has died, aged 92. He was a true pioneer, <a href="http://uk.fujitsu.com/pensioner/topics/obituaries/david_caminer/">inventing many of the standards now called systems engineering</a>. He failed to get into Cambridge and said later that "university seemed an irrelevance in the days of mass unemployment and hunger marches." He became a management trainee at Lyons - a catering company in London - where he was responsible for creating <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3ade40c-44ab-11dd-b151-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">the world's first business application of computing on a system called LEO</a> and the standards that were later formalized as software engineering. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html">"Americans can’t believe this,” Paul Ceruzzi, a historian of computing and curator at the National Air and Space Museum, said in an interview last week. “They think you’re making it up. It really was true</a>.” tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73141 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:16:22 -0800 Obituary SoftwareEngineering Susurration http://www.metafilter.com/33588/Microsoft%2Ddoes%2Dsomething%2Dnot%2Dterribly%2Devil <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa001&amp;colID=6&amp;articleID=000224C9-6801-10A9-A47783414B7F0000">Scientific American on</a> Microsoft's new, <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/">gigantic attempt</a> at a <a href="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1045390" title="Everything2 node">Palo</a> <a href="http://www.parc.xerox.com/" title="official Xerox site">Alto</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33588 Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:02:50 -0800 microsoft ms paloalto research researchanddevelopment software softwareengineering Tlogmer