18 Facts About Bertrand Meyer

Bertrand Meyer created the Eiffel programming language and the concept of design by contract.

Bertrand Meyer had a technical and managerial career for nine years at Electricite de France, and for three years was a member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bertrand Meyer was Chair of the ETH Computer Science department from 2004 to 2006 and for 13 years taught the Introduction to Programming course taken by all ETH computer science students, resulting in a widely disseminated programming textbook, Touch of Class.

Bertrand Meyer remains Professor emeritus of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich and is currently Professor of Software Engineering and Provost at Constructor Institute of Technology, a new research university in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Bertrand Meyer has held visiting positions at the University of Toulouse, Politecnico di Milano, Innopolis University, Monash University and University of Technology Sydney.

Bertrand Meyer is active as a consultant, trainer in object technology and other software topics, and conference speaker.

For many years Bertrand Meyer has been active in issues of research and education policy and was the founding president of Informatics Europe, the association of European computer science departments.

Bertrand Meyer pursues the ideal of simple, elegant and user-friendly computer languages and is one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of object-oriented programming.

Bertrand Meyer's book Object-Oriented Software Construction, translated into 15 languages, is one of the earliest and most comprehensive works presenting the case for OOP.

Bertrand Meyer has authored numerous articles and edited over 60 conference proceedings, many of them in the Springer LNCS series.

Bertrand Meyer has long being interested in techniques of specification and requirements and in 2022 published a treatise and textbook, Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis.

Bertrand Meyer is the initial designer of the Eiffel method and language and has continued to participate in its evolution, and is the originator of the Design by Contract development method.

Bertrand Meyer is a member of Academia Europaea and the French Academy of Technologies and a Fellow of the ACM.

Bertrand Meyer has received honorary doctorates from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the University of York, England.

Bertrand Meyer was the first "senior award" winner of the AITO Dahl-Nygaard award in 2005.

Bertrand Meyer is an IFIP fellow, as part of the first group to receive this distinction in 2019, and received in 2017 the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Educator Award.

Bertrand Meyer was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.

In 2006, Bertrand Meyer received the ACM Software System Award of the for "impact on software quality" in recognition of the design of Eiffel.