James Martin (author)
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19 October 1933 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England |
| Died | 24 June 2013 (aged 79) Agar's Island, Bermuda |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | IBM |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) |
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| Notable awards | Turing Lecture (2008) |
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James Martin (19 October 1933 – 24 June 2013) was a British Information Technology consultant and author, known for his work on information engineering. Martin was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow.
James Martin was born on 19 October 1933 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England. He earned a degree in physics at Keble College, Oxford.
Martin joined IBM in 1959, and since the 1980s established several IT consultancy firms. Starting in 1981 with Dixon Doll and Tony Carter he established DMW (Doll Martin Worldwide) in London, UK, which was later renamed James Martin Associates (JMA), which was (partly) bought by Texas Instruments Software in 1991. He later co-founded Database Design Inc. (DDI), also in Ann Arbor, to promulgate his database design techniques and to develop tools to help implement them. After becoming the market leader in Information Engineering software, DDI was renamed KnowledgeWare and eventually purchased by Fran Tarkenton, who took it public.
Martin was awarded an honorary fellowship by Keble College, Oxford and an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Warwick in July 2009. He gave the Turing Lecture in 2008. According to Computerworld’s 25th anniversary issue, he was ranked fourth among the 25 individuals who have most influenced the world of computer science.
Since the 1990s, Martin lived on his own private island, Agar’s Island, in Bermuda, where he died on 24 June 2013, apparently in a swimming accident.
Martin was an expert in the field of systems design, software development methodology, information engineering and computer-aided software engineering. He was one of the first to promote fourth-generation programming languages, and was one of the main developers of the Rapid Application Development methodology.
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