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Software Engineering in a British Defence Project in 1970

Author : Ian Pyle

Published in: This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?

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Abstract

This software development project took five years from 1968, and engaged 50, rising to 130, people. They were programmers from a commercial company, together with scientists from a government laboratory. In the infancy of software engineering, completely new techniques were established to carry out the task, based on system theory, which are described here. The project was completed in 1973.

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Metadata
Title
Software Engineering in a British Defence Project in 1970
Author
Ian Pyle
Copyright Year
2018
Book
This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99604-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99605-9

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99605-9_2

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