Walter F. Tichy

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Walter Franz Tichy (born April 22, 1952 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of the collegial management of the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD). He is best known to the software development community as the first developer of the Revision Control System (RCS).

Career and research

After obtaining a Bachelor of Science from the Technical University of Munich (1974), Tichy completed a master’s program at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh (1976) and received his doctorate there in 1980 with Arie Habermann (Ph.D.) with the dissertation Software Development Control Based on System Structure Description .

His current research projects concern experimental methods of computer science and software engineering , software architecture and model research, software configuration management , cluster computing , compiler and programming environments for parallel computers as well as optical-electronic connections .

Fonts (selection)

  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of a revision control system, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software engineering, 1982, pp. 58-67
  • The string-to-string correction problem with block moves, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 2, 1984, pp. 309-321
  • RCS-a system for version control, Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 15, 1985, pp. 637-654
  • Tools for Software Configuration Management, Proceedings from International Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, Grassau, 1988
  • Editor: Configuration Management, Wiley 1994
  • with P. Lukowicz, L. Prechelt, EA Heinz: Experimental evaluation in computer science: A quantitative study, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 28, 1995, pp. 9-18
  • Should computer scientists experiment more?, Computer, Volume 31, 1998, pp. 32-40
  • with MM Müller: Case study: extreme programming in a university environment, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2001.
  • with L. Prechelt, B. Unger, P. Brossler, LG Votta: A controlled experiment in maintenance: comparing design patterns to simpler solutions, IEEE transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 27, 2002, pp. 1134–1144

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Franz Tichy , Mathematics Genealogy Project, North Dakota State University, accessed May 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Tichy, Walter F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tichy, Walter Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Reichenhall