The company founded in 1974 by ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=edward Yourdon">edward Yourdon to provideeducational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art softwareengineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and europe. As CeO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=CGI">CGI, the French software company that is now part of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM">IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of softwareengineering topics many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks. (1995-04-16)
