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 special faculty member 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.[citation needed] He was the general chair of the tenth international conference on Open Source systems, OSS2014, in Costa Rica. 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 (CASE) 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». Wikipedia