doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
a. nico habermann bad reichenhall , germany german software engineering karlsruhe institute of technology 22 april 1952 rcs germany walter f. tichy
 walter f. tichy technische universität münchen , carnegie mellon university
walter f. tichy

walter f. tichy -lrb- born april 22 1952 in bad reichenhall -rrb- 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 .
