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== Career ==

=== Carleton University ===

David A. Thomas completed a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at [[Carleton University]] in [[Ottawa]], Canada in 1969, and a Master of Systems and Computer Engineering there in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davethomas.net/DaveThomasCV.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - DaveThomasCV.doc |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2020-01-30}}</ref> From 1969, he has had a long history of involvement with computing services and research at Carleton, and was appointed an assistant professor and then a professor in 1990. To this day, Thomas is an adjunct professor at Carleton.

In 1984, Thomas started and led the Object Oriented Research Group at Carleton with colleagues Wilf LaLonde and John Pugh.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mastering ENVY/Developer |author1= |author2isbn= 9780521666503|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ld6E19QIMo4C&pg=PR15&lpg=PR15|last1= Pelrine|first1= Joseph|last2= Knight|first2= Alan|last3= Cho|first3= Adrian|date= 19 March 2001}}</ref><ref name="travels">{{cite web |title=Travels With Smalltalk |url=http://www.mojowire.com/TravelsWithSmalltalk/DaveThomas-TravelsWithSmalltalk.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010614144426/http://www.mojowire.com/TravelsWithSmalltalk/DaveThomas-TravelsWithSmalltalk.htm|archivedate=2001-06-14}}</ref> The group created a range of tools for development in the [[Smalltalk]] language including ENVY/Smalltalk (an [[Integrated Development Environment|IDE]]), ENVY/Developer (a team programming and configuration management tool for Smalltalk) and Orwell (a [[revision control system]]).

=== Object Technology International ===