Howard Yudkin, 52, Dies; President of Software Firm
Howard L. Yudkin, 52, president and chief executive officer of the Software Productivity Consortium in Herndon since 1986 and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for telecommunications, died May 23 of a heart ailment at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville.</br></br>Dr. Yudkin joined the Department of Defense in 1970 as an assistant director of defense research and engineering. He left in 1974 and joined Computer Sciences Corp. in Falls Church, where he was president of the firm's systems division.</br></br>He went to work for Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., a Bethesda consulting firm, in 1982, and was a vice president there until he joined the Software Productivity Consortium.</br></br>Dr. Yudkin, who lived in Rockville, was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in his native Philadelphia. He received master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an electrical engineer in MIT's Lincoln Laboratory until he came to the Washington area in 1970.</br></br>Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Judith Sussman Yudkin of Rockville; two daughers, Laurie Yudkin of Revere, Mass., and Debra Yudkin of Westwood Village, Calif.; his mother, Jeanne Yudkin of Philadelphia, and a sister, Sandra Casway of Columbia, Md.