Nate Edwards

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Nathen P. Edwards is a distinguished IBM hardware architect, now retired. 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 coined the term configurable modularity, which he describes as a characteristic of all systems that can be said to be "engineered".

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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.

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".