Background
Wayne was born in 1944. He grew up in Missouri, spent two years in India.
Wayne was born in 1944. He grew up in Missouri, spent two years in India.
In India Stevens attended the Woodstock School and earned his Master of Surgery in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967.
Wayne eventually became the chief architect of application development methodology for the International Business Machines Corporation"s consulting group. The annual Stevens Award Lecture on Software Development Methods is named after him. He belonged to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as well as the following honorary societies: Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Wayne wrote a seminal paper on Structured Design, with Larry Constantine and Glenford Myers, and was the author of a number of books and articles on application design methodologies. He worked with John Paul Morrison to refine and promote the concepts of what is now called Flow-based programming, including descriptions of FBP in several of these references.
