Engineers whose defining technological contribution is software itself: programming languages and environments, software development method, and network and web protocols. Belongs here: Grace Hopper for the compiler, Ada Lovelace for the first published algorithm intended for a machine, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for the Internet protocols, and Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web. Does not belong here: the hardware a piece of software runs on, grouped under Computer or Electrical Engineering, even when a single career, such as Winston W. Royce's, spans both hardware-era computing and software method.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Software engineering
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It is also associated with the title of a NATO conference in 1968 by Professor Friedrich L. Bauer.
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