Christopher P. (Chris) Gane (September 6, 1938 – November 25, 2019) was a British/American computer scientist, consultant and information technology writer, known for developing

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s with Trish Sarson in the 1970s.

Life and work

Born in England, Gane obtained his MA in Physics at the

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, and started working as computer scientist at

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in London. In 1973 he emigrated to the United States, where he started as independent IT consultant in New York. In 1975 he joined

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's software company. In 1977 with Trish Sarson he founded Improved Systems Technologies (IST). In 1977 they published their best known work ''Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques,'' in which they presented a specific type of

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, Gane published works on

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(1989) and

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(1990).

Selected publications

* Lewis, Brian N., Ivan S. Horabin, and Chris Gane. ''Flow charts, logical trees and algorithms for rules and regulations.'' No. 2. HM Stationery Office, 1967. * Gane, Chris, and Trish Sarson. ''Structured Systems Analysis and Design.'' New York: Improved Systems Technologies (1977). * Gane, Chris P., and Trish Sarson. ''Structured systems analysis: tools and techniques.'' Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 1979. * Gane, Chris. ''Computer-aided software engineering: the methodologies, the products, the future.'' Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990. * Gane, Chris. ''Rapid System Development.'' (1989).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gane, Christopher P. 1938 births Living people American technology writers British technology writers American computer programmers Alumni of the University of Cambridge IBM employees