From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David A. Thomas (software developer)
David A. Thomas (software developer)
David A. Thomas is a well-known figure in modern soft-
ware development and object technology. Thomas took
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undergraduate (1969) and graduate (1976) degrees at the • Curriculum vitae
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and held a • Bedarra Research Labs
number of software development positions in the ensu- • Podcast Interview with Dave Thomas on Software
ing years. Thomas is perhaps best known as the founder Engineering Radio
and past CEO of Object Technology International, Inc., • Dave Thomas
now IBM OTI Labs. OTI was responsible for initial devel- • Interview on Conferences & Technology Futures on
opment of the Eclipse open source IDE and the Visual Age Coding By Numbers podcast.
Java development environment. Persondata
Thomas is a frequent speaker at development confer-
Name Thomas, David A.
ences on topics dealing with technology and technology
management. As an author and through publication of a Alternative names
number of papers in peer-reviewed journals, Thomas has Short description
demonstrated substantial contributions to both the com- Date of birth
mercial and academic aspects of software development.
Place of birth
In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by
the Association for Computing Machinery. Date of death
Place of death
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