Authority about leading edge technologies
Program Titles
- His unique ability to present technical material in an imaginative and coherent manner has earned him the respect of the information management community around the world
- The Digital Era – the social effects of this Technology
- Computers and Social Responsibility
- Man and Machine relationships, Machine and Man relationships
- Computers – How do these darn things work
- Computer industry – its history and its future directions
Jerome Garfunkel is the quintessential “teacher.” His unique ability to present technical material imaginatively and coherently has earned him the respect of the information management community around the world. In the computer programming community, he is often referred to as “Dr. COBOL” because of his many contributions to the development of the COBOL programming language.
Jerome Garfunkel is a specialist in learning systems design and technology. In the commercial IT (Information Technology) community around the world, he is recognized as one of the leading authorities on international computer standards and programming languages, particularly COBOL.
He has served as a senior Technical Advisor to the US Department of Commerce and the US Department of the Interior. In addition, he sat on several American and International IT industry committees and has represented the United States in the international IT standardization community. His lifelong work on developing the COBOL programming language made him intimately involved with the Y2K crisis – its cause and its solution.
“Dr” Garfunkel wrote and lectured extensively about the global Y2K crisis at the turn of the new millennium. As an educator, lecturer, and technologist, he speaks with authority about cutting-edge technologies and how they affect our lives now and in the future.
His technical presentations include the integration of legacy systems with web-based technologies. Jerome Garfunkel was awarded the Doctorate, Honoris Causa in Technology from De Montfort University in Leicester, England, for his lifetime contributions to the software engineering community.
His collection of technical papers, memoranda, and notes is housed in the Charles Babbage Institute in Minnesota, where it is used for historical research.
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