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| Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and |
| inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented |
| programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the |
| University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of |
| Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration |
| makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik enjoys |
| building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. |
| Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/mik_kersten">@mik_kersten on Twitter</a>. |
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