Mik Kersten

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Mik Kersten
Born 23 June 1975
Warsaw, Poland
Residence Vancouver, Canada
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Tasktop Technologies, Xerox PARC
Alma mater University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisor Gail C. Murphy
Known for created Task-Focused Interface and Mylyn, major contributor to AspectJ and Aspect-Oriented Programming, Eclipse (software)
Influences Gail C. Murphy, Gregor Kiczales, Charles Simonyi, Jim Hugunin Rod Johnson (programmer)

Mik Kersten is a Canadian computer specialist who created and leads the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project.[1][2] Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface technology underlying Mylyn while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.[1][3][4] 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.[5]

Kersten has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation Architecture Council since 2007.[6]

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