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David Parnas was born on 10 February, 1941 in Plattsburgh, New York, United States, is a Canadian software engineer. Discover David Parnas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 10 February, 1941
Birthday 10 February
Birthplace Plattsburgh, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1941

David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today.

He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.

Parnas earned his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in electrical engineering.

Parnas also earned a professional engineering license in Canada and was one of the first to apply traditional engineering principles to software design.

He worked there as a professor for many years.

He also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.S.), at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland).

David Parnas received a number of awards and honors:

In modular design, his double dictum of high cohesion within modules and loose coupling between modules is fundamental to modular design in software.

1972

However, in Parnas's seminal 1972 paper On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules, this dictum is expressed in terms of information hiding, and the terms cohesion and coupling are not used.

He never used them.

1980

Dr Parnas took a public stand against the US Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as "Star Wars") in the mid 1980s, arguing that it would be impossible to write an application of sufficient quality that it could be trusted to prevent a nuclear attack.

He has also been in the forefront of those urging the professionalization of "software engineering" (a term that he characterizes as "an unconsummated marriage" ).

Dr. Parnas is also a heavy promoter of ethics in the field of software engineering.

Parnas has joined the group of scientists which openly criticize the number-of-publications-based approach towards ranking academic production.

2007

On his November 2007 paper Stop the Numbers Game, he elaborates on several reasons on why the current number-based academic evaluation system used in many fields by universities all over the world (be it either oriented to the amount of publications or the amount of quotations each of those get) is flawed and, instead of contributing to scientific progress, it leads to knowledge stagnation.