Tony Wasserman
Anthony I. Wasserman, is an American computer scientist. He is a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, was a professor of the Practice in Software Management at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and was executive director of the CMU Center for Open Source Investigation. He has been a SkyDeck accelerator program advisor at University of California, Berkeley since 2021. He is currently Principal of Software Methods and Tools.
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. He was the general chair of the tenth international conference on Open Source systems, OSS2014, in Costa Rica.
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, a computer-aided software engineering company that was one of the first 100 dotcoms, from 1983-1993, 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.
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 was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for technical and professional contributions to the field of software engineering". In 2025, he won a IEEE Technical Community on Software Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award.