Tony Wasserman

[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.

He then became vice president of Bluestone Software before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard, leading the development of early mobile applications.

[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] Wasserman's academic research focused on two projects: the User Software Engineering (USE) project, begun at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1975[8] and the Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), begun at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, in 2005.