Gerald Marvin Weinberg was an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
11 Facts About Gerald Weinberg
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Gerald Weinberg attended Omaha Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Gerald Weinberg was a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Binghamton University, and Columbia University.
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Gerald Weinberg was a member of the Society for General Systems Research since the late 1950s.
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Gerald Weinberg shared his use of his personal form of the card file approach to collecting ideas for writing in the book Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method.
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Gerald Weinberg's writing calls upon his own humorous aphorisms, such as his Law of Twins, which states that most of the time, no matter how much effort one expends, no event of any great significance will result.
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Gerald Weinberg described it in his book The Secrets of Consulting, in which he explains the origin of its name.
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Gerald Weinberg reported that, while riding a bus in New York City, he observed a mother with eight small children embark.
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Gerald Weinberg asked the driver the amount of the fare; he told her that the cost was thirty-five cents, but that children under the age of five could ride for free.
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In recent years, Gerald Weinberg was involved with the SHAPE Forum and working with the AYE Conference.
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Gerald Weinberg has published more than 40 books and more than 400 articles.