Fabio Kon

Fabio Kon is a former director of the Open Source Initiative and a full professor of the department of computer science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the primary contact for the University of São Paulo FLOSS Competence Center.

Education Kon studied computer science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and music at the São Paulo State University. He received his master degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP, in 1994 with the dissertation Sistemas de Arquivos Distribuídos.

In 2000, Kon received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the thesis Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems, advised by Ron Harold Campbell.

Career Kon is Full Professor at IME-USP since 2011. Kon was a visiting professor at Technion, Israel in 2013 and at MIT in 2018.

Awards 2016: ACM Distinguished Member 2018: Fulbright Visiting Professor Fellowship.

Works

2004: InteGrade: object‐oriented Grid middleware leveraging the idle computing power of desktop machines. 2013: Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management. 2013: The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects.. 2018: Software platforms for smart cities: Concepts, requirements, challenges, and a unified reference architecture.