Timothy D. Korson
Timothy Dale Korson (born December 12, 1952) is an American software engineer and founder of Qualsys Solutions Inc. Korson is best known for his contributions since the mid-1980s in Object Oriented technologies, testing & project management, often associating with Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
Biography
Korson earned his B.A. with a major in Mathematics and French in 1974 from Atlantic Union College. He continued on to in 1981 to receive an M.S. in Mathematics with an emphasis on applied math and CS, from Ohio University. He then earned his PhD in computer Information Systems in 1986 from Georgia State University. His dissertation was an empirical study of the effects of modularity on program modifiability.[1]
He is the former executive director of COMSOFT, The Consortium for the Management of Emerging Software Technologies, from 1992 to 2001. Here he worked as the founding officer of a technology transfer and research consortium with emphasis on object technology. The COMSOFT sponsor list included NBC, IBM, AT&T, Bell South and Nortel.
References
- ↑ An Empirical Study of the Effects of Modularity on Program Modifiability. (V.K. Vaishnavi, co-author) in Empirical Studies of Programmers, (Soloway, Iyengar, Eds.) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=21842.28893&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=41248044&CFTOKEN=94909825