Dr. James Martin is a consultant and author, has been called the "guru of the information age," and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, "The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow." He has written over a hundred books, many of which where best sellers in the information technology industry, however some of which are considered to be self-promoting in character.

He has written extensively on his computer systems design methodology Information Engineering and also on CASE, of which some say he is the father. He was an early promoter of fourth-generation programming languages. He was also the primary author of the Rapid Application Development methodology.

With Dixon Doll, Martin established the information technology consultancy firm DMW (Doll Martin Worldwide) in 1981. This was later renamed James Martin Associates (JMA), and its clients have included the United States and United Kingdom governments. In the late 1980s, JMA was divided into two halves: one half was sold to Texas Instruments Software in 1991, while the other part remains independent and is now known as Headstrong. Martin also co-founded software company KnowledgeWare with Fran Tarkenton.

Martin helped establish The James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford, whose stated goal is to "formulate new concepts, policies and technologies that will make the future a better place to be".

Martin also founded Data Base Design. DDI Inc. which competed with Knowledeware in areas such as data base design tools.

External links

• The James Martin 21st Century School
• James Martin Institute

Living people | Data management

James Martin claims to have written "over 100 books", however the Library of Congress lists only 45. Still a considerable achievment, but it does not consitute the first figure.