Nationality German Residence Germany Fields Software engineering | Name Walter Tichy Doctoral advisor Nico Habermann Role Computer scientist | |
Born 22 April 1952
Bad Reichenhall, Germany ( 1952-04-22 ) Institutions Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Alma mater Technische Universitat Munchen, Carnegie Mellon University | ||
Known for Revision Control System | ||
Walter F. Tichy (born April 22, 1952 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist. He is professor of computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany where he teaches classes in software engineering.
To the larger software development community he is best known as the initial developer of the RCS revision control system. However, he has also written highly cited works on experimental software engineering, the string-to-string correction problem, software configuration management, and extreme programming.
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