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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Fred Brooks, Kent Beck, Steve McConnell, Software engineer, Samir Arora, Peter J. Denning, Anthony James Barr, Duncan Suttles, Software engineering professionalism, Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, Gary Robinson, Larry Constantine, Jan Dietz, Charles Bachman, Donald Firesmith, Barry Boehm, Software engineering demographics, David Parnas, Albert F. Case, Jr., Jonathan Bowen, Friedrich L. Bauer, Ivar Jacobson, Zvonko Vranesic, Donna Auguste, Tom DeMarco, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Shafkat Chowdhury, Grady Booch, Brian Randell, Dick Smith, Muni Sakya, Sally Shlaer, Andy Stanford-Clark, Gennaro A. Cuomo, Cris Kobryn, Brad Cox, Tom Gruber, Michael A. Jackson, Frank Land, Cody Brocious, Watts Humphrey, Joshua Bloch, Poorni, Jim Jagielski, Matthew Wilson, Scott Ambler, Meir M. Lehman, Grady Ward, Terry Halpin, Billy Newport, Robert Adamson, Cedric Beust, T. William Olle, Winston W. Royce, G.M. Nijssen, Tom Van Vleck, Alex Verrijn Stuart, Sean Egan, Robert Carr, Laszlo Belady, Jim Highsmith, Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Glass, Diomidis Spinellis, Wayne Stevens, Jacques Bonjawo, Martyn Thomas, Jim Whitehead, Roger S. Pressman, J. Anthony Hall, Charles Kuta, James Rumbaugh, Victor Basili, Vaughn Frick, Blaine Cook, James Ready, Yugo Nakamura, Jeromy Carriere, Harold Lawson, Craig Larman, Joe Celko, Gilad Bracha, Harri Porten, Jean-Raymond Abrial, Baron Schwartz, Thomas Knoll, Stevens Award, Bruce Artwick, Thomas Biskup, Michael R. Lyu, Tarun Anand, Steve Schwartz, Jonathan S. Turner, Aleksandar Totic. Excerpt: A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work. Prior to the mid-1990s, software practitioners called themselves prog...