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page 1Software engineering researchers

Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering
Friedrich L. Bauer
German computer scientist (1924–2015)

Bertrand Meyer
French computer scientist
James Rumbaugh
American computer scientist
Peter Chen
American computer scientist
Jonathan Bowen
British computer scientist
Tom DeMarco
American software engineer, author, and consultant
Sue Black
British computer scientist
Barry Boehm
American software engineer (1935–2022)
David Parnas
Canadian software engineer
Edward Yourdon
American software engineer and pioneer in the software engineering methodology (1944-2016)
Michael A. Jackson
British computer scientist

Gerald Weinberg
American computer scientist (1933-2018)
David Harel
Israeli computer scientist
Mary Shaw
American software engineer
Manny Lehman
Known for Lehman's laws of software evolution

Jean-Raymond Abrial
French computer scientist
Steve McConnell
American software engineer
August-Wilhelm Scheer
German business theorist
Bernhard Thalheim
German computer scientist
Alexander L. Wolf
computer scientist
Wil van der Aalst
Dutch computer scientist and professor
Brian Randell
British computer scientist

Ian Sommerville
British academic
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
Dutch computer scientist (1953–1994)
Daniel Jackson
American computer scientist
Radhia Cousot
Inventor of abstract interpretation (1947–2014)

Börje Langefors
Swedish computer scientist (1915-2009)
Jan Dietz
Dutch computer scientist
Bernd Bruegge
Computer scientist, Software engineering researcher,
Nico Habermann
Dutch computer scientist