Career
Korson earned his Bachelor of Arts with a major in Mathematics and French in 1974 from Atlantic Union College. He continued on to in 1981 to receive an Master of Surgery in Mathematics with an emphasis on applied math and CS, from Ohio University. He then earned his Doctor of Philosophy in computer Information Systems in 1986 from Georgia State University.
His dissertation was an empirical study of the effects of modularity on program modifiability.
He is the former executive director of COMSOFT, The Consortium for the Management of Emerging Software Technologies, from 1992 to 2001. Here he worked as the founding officer of a technology transfer and research consortium with emphasis on object technology.
The COMSOFT sponsor list included National Broadcasting Company, International Business Machines Corporation, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Bell South and Nortel.
