Timothy D. Korson
Timothy Dale Korson (born December 12, 1952) is an American software engineer and founder of Qualsys Solutions Inc. Dr. Korson is best known for his contributions since the mid 1980’s in Object Oriented technologies, testing & project management, often associating with Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
Biography
Dr. 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.
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.
He worked as the principle investigator of:
“Enhanced Graphics Component for Eiffel” with a research grant from Interactive Software Engineering from 1988 to 1989. Here he supervised and assisted in the development of an enhanced, [X Window] based, graphics component for the object-oriented language “Eiffel.”
“Object Modeling and Value Project” with a research grant from AT&T from 1990 to 1992.
“Object Metrics and Testing Project” with a research grant given by IBM and BRN from 1990 to 1994.
Publications
Tim Korson has published several articles and books. Here is a shortened list spanning more than 2 decades of work.
• 2007 - “Testing In a Quasi-Agile Software Development Environment.” EuroStar
• 2005 - "MDA, Not Your Father’s UML." Better Software Magazine, September 2005
• 2005 – “Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - What's in it for Developers and Testers?”
• 2001 - “Using Components, Patterns, and Frameworks to Realize Architecture.” Proceedings of the 12th annual Borland Conference, Long Beach, CA., July 2001
• 2000 - “From UML to Java: Building a Three-tier Architecture.” Proceedings of the 11th annual Borland Conference, San Diego, CA., July 2000
• 1999 – "Constructing Useful Use Cases" Component Strategies Magazine, March 1999, pp. 27-28.
• 1998 – “Engineering Aerospace Software: From FORTRAN to Java and Beyond!” Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, March 30.
• 1997 - "A Realistic, Commercially Robust Process for OO Software Systems." Object World East, Boston, Massachusetts, March 3 - 7, 1997.
• 1994 - "Integrated object-oriented testing and development processes" (John McGregor co-author) CACM, September 1994, pp 59–77.
• 1992 - "Technical Criteria for the Specification and Evaluation of Object-Oriented Libraries." (John McGregor co-author) IEE Software Engineering Journal, March 1992, 55-75.
• 1991 - "Height-Analysis of k-Dimensional Leaf and Node Height-Balanced Trees: A New Approach." (V.K. Vaishnavi co-author) BIT 31:1, March 1991, 36-49.
• 1990 - "Understanding Object-Oriented - A Unifying Paradigm." (John McGregor co-author) CACM, September 1990, 40-60. Republished in Japanese.
• 1989 - "The Development of an Object-Oriented Educational Artifact at the Software Engineering Institute" (G. Ford co-author) Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Technology of Object- Oriented Languages and Systems," Paris, France, Nov. 13 - 15, 509-518.
• 1986 - "An Empirical Study of the Effects of Modularity on Program Modifiability." (V. K. Vaishnavi co-author) in Empirical Studies of Programmers, (Soloway, Iyengar, Eds.).