Gerald Marvin (Jerry) Weinberg (27 October 1933) is an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
Gerald Weinberg was born and raised in Chicago. In 1963 he received a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.
Weinberg started working in the computing business at IBM in 1956 at the Federal Systems Division Washington, where he particiapated as Manager o...
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Gerald Marvin (Jerry) Weinberg (27 October 1933) is an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
Gerald Weinberg was born and raised in Chicago. In 1963 he received a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.
Weinberg started working in the computing business at IBM in 1956 at the Federal Systems Division Washington, where he particiapated as Manager of Operating Systems Development in the Project Mercury (1959-1963), with aimed to put a human in orbit around the Earth. In 1960 he published one of his first papers. Since 1969 he is consultant and Principal at Weinberg & Weinberg. Here he conducts workshops such as the AYE Conference, The Problem Solving Leadership workshop since 1974, and workshops about the Fieldstone Method. Further Weinberg an author at Dorset House Publishing since 1970, consultant at Microsoft since 1988, and moderator at the Shape Forum since 1993.
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