User:Twasserman

Anthony I. "Tony" Wasserman is a Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), focused on evaluation and adoption of open source software.

In 1980, as a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco, he released the software for his User Software Engineering research project under a BSD license. His User Software Engineering (USE) research project (1975-1984) introduced an "outside-in" software development process, which was the first method to include rapid prototyping of user interfaces as a key element of requirements analysis.

Subsequently, as CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), he incorporated some of the USE project software in IDE's Software through Pictures multiuser modeling environment, released in 1984, making it among the very first commercial products to include open source software. After IDE, Tony was VP of Engineering for a dot-com, and later became VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2001), where Bluestone's open source Total-e-Mobile toolkit allowed mobile devices to connect to JavaEE web applications. Tony is very active in the international open source research community, and served as General Chair of the 2009 Int'l. Conf. on Open Source Systems. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Board of Advisors of Open Source for America. Tony is a Fellow of the ACM and a Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to software engineering and software development environments. He received the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE's Technical Council on Software Engineering and the 2013 Influential Educator Award from the ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.

Tony has edited 9 books, and published more than 50 research papers on various topics related to software engineering, software development environments, and open source software.