David Parnas
Canadian engineer
David Lorge Parnas 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... Wikipedia
Place of birth: Plattsburgh, NY
Education: Carnegie Mellon University (1965) and University of Limerick
Notable students: Richard Lipton and Steven M. Bellovin
Academic advisor: Alan Perlis
Affiliation: McMaster University