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Who is Al Davis?

Al Davis is an entrepreneur, business strategist, consultant, teacher, avid world traveler, author, volunteer, and lifelong student, in no particular priority or chronological order.

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He earned his Ph.D. and masters in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and bachelors in mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany. He has been a fellow of the IEEE since 1994 and a life fellow since 2014. He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software from 1994 to 1998. He was a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Software (1984-1986 and 1991-1994), Journal of Systems and Software (1987-2010), the Requirements Engineering Journal (2005-2011), and Communications of the ACM (1981-1991). Dr. Davis has published 100+ articles in journals, conferences and trade press, and lectured 2,000+ times in 28 countries. He is the author of 9 books:

  1. Software Requirements: Analysis and Specification (Prentice Hall, 1990),
  2. Software Requirements: Objects, Functions and States (Prentice Hall, 1993),
  3. the best-selling 201 Principles of Software Development (McGraw Hill, 1995),
  4. Great Software Debates (Wiley and IEEE CS Press, 2004),
  5. Just Enough Requirements Management (Dorset House, 2005),
  6. Will Your New Start Up Make Money (WYNSUMM) (Scrub Oak Press, 2014),
  7. Unusual Africa: Traveling on the Edge (Scrub Oak Press, 2016),
  8. Unusual Asia: Traveling on the Edge (Scrub Oak Press, 2017), and
  9. Unusual Latin America: Traveling on the Edge (Scrub Oak Press, 2017).
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