Bio:Gerald M. Weinberg

Biography

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 participated as Manager of Operating Systems Development in the Project Mercury (1959-1963), which 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[4], 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[2]

Weinberg has been a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, SUNY Binghamton, and Columbia University. He has been a member of the Society for General Systems Research since the late 1950s.[5] He is also a Founding Member of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, member of the Southwest Writers and the Oregon Writers Network, and a Keynote Speaker on many software development conferences.[1]

In 1993 he was the Winner of The J.-D. Warnier Prize for Excellence in Information Sciences, and the 2000 Winner of The Stevens Award for Contributions to Software Engineering.[6]

Work

His most well-known non-fiction books are "The Psychology of Computer Programming" and "Introduction to General Systems Thinking" both of which are considered to be classics. Weinberg is well-known for an engaging style of writing that calls upon his own humorous aphorisms, such as his Law of Twins.

In recent years, Weinberg was involved with the SHAPE Forum (Software as a Human Activity Performed Effectively)[7] and working with the AYE Conference. Weinberg’s life and work were honored in November 2008 with the publication of The Gift of Time[8], a collection of essays by a few of his students, colleagues, and friends, describing lessons learned from Weinberg and incorporated in their own consulting and managerial work.

Fiction Works First Stringers ISBN 1453653821 Second Stringers ISBN 1453662456 The Hands of God ISBN 1453673164 Mistress of Molecules ISBN 1448638801 Freshman Murders ISBN 1453700153 Aremac Power: Inventions at Risk ISBN 1453722165 The Aremac Project ISBN: 978-0-932633-70-5