Tony Wasserman

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Tony Wasserman

Anthony "Tony" I. Wasserman, is an American computer scientist. He is a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative,[1] was a professor of the Practice in Software Management at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and is executive director of the CMU Center for Open Source Investigation.[2] He has been a SkyDeck accelerator program advisor at University of California, Berkeley since 2021.[3]

As a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus, Wasserman taught classes in software product definition, software product strategy, and open source software. He is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world including the Open World Forum.[4] He was the general chair of the tenth international conference on Open Source systems, OSS2014, in Costa Rica.[5]

After serving as a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco and as a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, Wasserman founded and was CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), a computer-aided software engineering company that was one of the first 100 dotcoms (no. 78), from 1983-1993 (7), and as Chair from 1983-1996. He then became vice president of Bluestone Software before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard, leading the development of early mobile applications.[2]

In 1996 he was elected as a fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to software engineering, including the development of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools".[6] In the same year he also was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for technical and professional contributions to the field of software engineering".[7]

  1. ^ Open Source Initiative Board of Directors, accessed 2014-01-02.
  2. ^ a b CMU Silicon Valley faculty profile, accessed 2014-01-02.
  3. ^ "Advisors – Berkeley SKYDECK".
  4. ^ "Bio for Tony Wasserman". Open World Forum. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  5. ^ "OSS2014 Organization Committee". OSS2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  6. ^ IEEE Fellows directory, accessed 2014-01-02.
  7. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2014-01-02.