Tony Wasserman

Who is 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, a Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of the CMU Center for Open Source Investigation.

As a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Wasserman teaches classes in cloud computing, open source software, and software product definition. He is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world including the Open World Forum.

After working as a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and as a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Wasserman founded and was CEO of Interactive Development Environments, a computer-aided software engineering company that became a predecessor of Atego, from 1983 to 1993. He then became vice president of Bluestone Software before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard.

In 1996 he was elected as a fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to software engineering, including the development of computer-aided software engineering tools". In the same year he also became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for technical and professional contributions to the field of software engineering".