Mik Kersten
Encyclopedia
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 Gail 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.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
Eclipse
Eclipse (software)
Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...
Mylyn
Mylyn
Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.Mylyn is an open source implementation of the Task-Focused Interface. It provides an application programming interface for tools embedding the task-focused interface. For software developers, it helps a developer work efficiently with many...
project. Kersten invented the Task-Focused Interface
Task-Focused Interface
The task-focused interface is a type of user interface which extends the desktop metaphor of the graphical user interface to make tasks, not files and folders, the primary unit of interaction. Instead of showing entire hierarchies of information, such as a tree of documents, a task-focused...
technology underlying Mylyn
Mylyn
Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.Mylyn is an open source implementation of the Task-Focused Interface. It provides an application programming interface for tools embedding the task-focused interface. For software developers, it helps a developer work efficiently with many...
while working on his PhD at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. While completing his PhD, supervised by Gail C. Murphy, Kersten and Gail co-founded Tasktop Technologies, which provides productivity software built on the Mylyn
Mylyn
Mylyn is a subsystem of Eclipse for task management.Mylyn is an open source implementation of the Task-Focused Interface. It provides an application programming interface for tools embedding the task-focused interface. For software developers, it helps a developer work efficiently with many...
technology.
Kersten has been a member of the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...
Architecture Council since 2007.