Nate Edwards

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Nathen P. Edwards is a distinguished IBM hardware architect, retired in 1997. One of the key people involved in the SAGE project.^[1] Holder, often with other authors, of a number of patents - see below.

He also picked up the term configurable modularity, coined by Raoul de Campo of IBM Research to mean the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals, and developed it in several papers.^[2] He describes this as a characteristic of all systems that can be said to be "engineered".

[edit] References

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^ N.P. Edwards, On the Architectural Requirements of an Engineered System, IBM Research Report, RC 6688 (#28797), T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 8/18/1977

[edit] Publications

Edwards, Nathen P.; Tellier, H. (November 1974). "A Look at Characterizing the Design of Information Systems". Proceedings of the ACM National Conference: 612–621.

Edwards, Nathen P. (April 1975). "The effect of certain modular design principles on testability". ACM SIGPLAN, Proceedings of the international conference on Reliable software: 401–410. doi:10.1145/800027.808463.

N.P. Edwards et al. (November 1975). "Automated Ellipsometer". IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin 18 (6): 2031.

Edwards, Nathen P. (August 1977). "On the Architectural Requirements of an Engineered System". IBM Research Report, RC 6688 (#28797), T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

Edwards, Nathen P.; Lamb, E. Charles (April 1989). "Engineered Software". IBM Research Report, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY: 1–23.

U.S. Patent #3,626,384 (1971-12-07) J. B. Davis, N. P. Edwards, H.H. Herd, "Method for Representing Measured Data Values by Coefficient Values".

U.S. Patent #4,239,983 (1980-12-16) N.P. Edwards et al., "Non-destructive charge transfer device differencing circuit".

U.S. Patent #4,885,627 (1989-12-05) N.P. Edwards, "Method and structure for reducing resistance in integrated circuits".

U.S. Patent #5,742,823 (1998-04-21) N.P. Edwards et al., "Total object processing system and method with assembly line features and certification of results".