Tom DeMarco

Tom DeMarco studied at Cornell University, Columbia University and University of Paris. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is informatics and computer science. Employment is recorded with Bell Labs. Distinctions recorded are Stevens Award and IEEE Fellow.

• Name — Tom DeMarco • Born — 20 August 1940 • Birthplace — Hazleton, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Field — Computer science • Workplaces — Bell Labs • Education — Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Paris • Known for — Structured analysis • Awards — Stevens Award (1999)

Tom DeMarco was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University, and a diplôme from the University of Paris.

DeMarco started working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System, which became installed in telephone offices all over the world. Later in the 1960s he started working for a French IT consulting firm, where he worked on the development of a conveyor system for the new merchandise mart at La Villette in Paris, and in the 1970s on the development of on-line banking systems in Sweden, Holland, France and New York. In the 1970s DeMarco was one of the major figures in the development of structured analysis and structured design in software engineering. In January 1978 he published Structured Analysis and System Specification, a major milestone in the field. In the 1980s with Tim Lister, Stephen McMenamin, John F. Palmer, James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, he founded the consulting firm "The Atlantic Systems Guild" in New York. The Guild developed into a New York- and London-based consulting company specializing in methods and management of software development. DeMarco has lectured and consulted throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Far East. He is a member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He lives in Camden, Maine, and is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium. DeMarco was the 1986 recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing", and the 1999 recipient of the Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development".

• The One-Way Time Traveler. Artful Press, 2019. • A Ruby Beam of Light. Double Dragon Publishing, 2016. • Airship Nation. Double Dragon Publishing, 2016. • Als auf der Welt das Licht ausging. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2015. (translated from "Andronescu's Paradox"?) • Dark Harbor House (a comic novel). Down East Books, 2001. • Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie (short story collection) Down East Books, 2003.