1. Larry LeRoy Constantine was born on 1943 and is an American software engineer, professor in the Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering at the University of Madeira Portugal, and considered one of the pioneers of computing.
18 Facts About Larry Constantine
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Larry Constantine has contributed numerous concepts and techniques forming the foundations of modern practice in software engineering and applications design and development.
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Larry Constantine was named "Most Likely to Succeed" by his classmates.
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Larry Constantine received a certificate in family therapy 1973 from the Boston Family Institute, two-year post graduate training program.
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In 1999 Larry Constantine received the Jolt Award for Product Excellence, best book of 1999 for his "Software for Use".
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Larry Constantine's published work includes the influential classic text, Structured Design, written with Ed Yourdon, and the award-winning "Software for Use", written with Lucy Lockwood.
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Larry Constantine was the primary force behind the discipline of Structured Design, in his book of the same name.
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Larry Constantine, who learned programming at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began his professional career in computers with a summer job at Scientific Computing, at the time a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, in Minneapolis.
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Larry Constantine went on to full-time work at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science, where he wrote routines for analyzing spark chamber photographs, and then to C-E-I-R, Inc.
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Larry Constantine joined the faculty of IBM's Systems Research Institute the same year, where he taught for four years and further refined his concepts.
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Larry Constantine developed methodologies that combine human-computer-interaction design with software engineering.
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Larry Constantine trained under family therapy pioneers David Kantor and Fred and Bunny Duhl at the Boston Family Institute, completing a two-year postgraduate certificate program in 1973.
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Larry Constantine became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and later a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Massachusetts and was designated an approved supervisor by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Larry Constantine sang with the award-winning Burtones ensemble while a student at MIT, is a twelve-year veteran and alum of the semi-professional Zamir Chorale of Boston, and is a member of the Zachor Choral Ensemble, a Boston-based group dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust through music.
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Larry Constantine is a composer with several major works to his credit.
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Larry Constantine studied theory and composition under George Litterst and Stephan Peisch at the New England Conservatory.
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Larry Constantine's choral setting of the traditional Shehechiyanu blessing was premiered April 18,2010 by HaShirim at the groundbreaking for Temple Ahavat Achim in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Larry Constantine has more than 200 published papers to his credit, as well as 22 books.