Mik Kersten Scientist

Mik Kersten is a Canadian computer specialist who created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project. Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. While completing his PhD, supervised by Gail C. Murphy, Kersten and Murphy co-founded Tasktop Technologies, which provides productivity software built on the Mylyn technology.Kersten has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation Architecture Council since 2007.

Personal facts

Birth dateJune 23, 1975
Birth place
Poland , Warsaw
Residence
Vancouver , Canada
Education
University of British Columbia
Known for
AspectJ
Mylyn
Task-focused interface
Aspect-oriented programming
Eclipse (software)

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Scientist

Field of study
Computer science
influenced by
Gregor Kiczales
Jim Hugunin

Mik Kersten on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://kerstens.org/mik/publications.html
  2. http://tasktop.com
  3. http://tasktop.com/blog