Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer (born November 21, 1950 in France ) is a French computer scientist and developer of the Eiffel programming language .
Life
Bertrand Meyer studied at the French École polytechnique and Stanford University . In 1972 he graduated from the École polytechnique in Paris and in 1974 he did his master's degree at Stanford, while at the same time he worked at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory there. From 1974 to 1985 Meyer was initially an engineer and later head of the research and development department at Électricité de France . Between 1983 and 1985 he was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1985 he was at the University of Nancy to Dr. sc. PhD . In the same year he founded the company Interactive Software Engineering in Santa Barbara and is its company president and CTO .
From October 2001 to January 2016 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the ETH in Zurich as successor to the Chair of Niklaus Wirth .
Bertrand Meyer became known through the book Object-Oriented Software Construction (German object-oriented software development ), in which he explains the principles of object-oriented design . From these principles Meyer developed the programming language Eiffel and introduced the concept of design by contract .
In 2005 he was awarded the Dahl Nygaard Prize . Other honors: ACM Software System Award, ACM Fellow, member of the Academia Europaea and the (French) Académie des Technologies, honorary doctorate from the University of York (GB) and the ITMO State University in Saint Petersburg .
Fonts
- Object-oriented software development , Hanser 1990, ISBN 3-446-15773-5
- Key to success object technology: Manager's guide to reorganizing the software process , Hanser 1996, ISBN 3-446-18697-2
- Object-Oriented Software Construction w. CD-ROM (second edition, English), SAMS 1997, ISBN 0-136-29155-4
- Touch Of Class: Learning to Program Well with Objects and Contracts , Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-92144-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Bertrand Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bertrand Meyer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Bertrand Meyer's technology blog
- Bertrand Meyers Homepage , Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich (English)
- "Defense and Illustration of Wikipedia" , article by Bertrand Meyer on Wikipedia, 6./7. January 2006 (10 pages, PDF file; 122 kB)
- Anecdote about Bertrand Meyer's lectures at ETH Zurich
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Bertrand Meyer. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Bertrand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | France |