"Douglas T. Ross, who began his career as a graduate student in math at MIT where he was quickly lured into computing, serving as head of the Computer Applications Group from 1952 to 1969, when he left MIT to form SofTech, Inc., which he served as president until 1975 and since then as chairman. He's made seminal contributions to several areas of computing, ranging from automatic programming of numerically controlled tools, the computer language APT, through Computer Aided Design, his Automated Engineering Design System, down to software engineering, the method of structured analysis design technique, which he puts generally under the heading of man machine collaboration. He's an old hand at historical gatherings, having reported on APT at the conference on the History of Programming Languages held in 1978, and more recently on the early development in the History of Personal Workstations in 1986."