February 2012 - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog

New LASER proceedings

17 April 201420 February 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

Springer has just published in the tutorial sub-series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science a new proceedings volume for the LASER summer school [1]. The five chapters are notes from the 2008, 2009 and 2010 schools (a previous volume [2] covered earlier schools). The themes range over search-based software engineering (Mark Harman and colleagues), replication … Read more

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant: Concurrency Made Easy

17 April 201412 February 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

We have just been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project on concurrent programming (2.5 M EUR). This article is a brief introduction to the project and a first announcement of the positions (postdocs, phds, engineer) for which we will be advertising.

R&D positions in software engineering

17 April 20146 February 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

In the past couple of weeks, three colleagues separately sent me announcements of PhD and postdoc positions, asking me to circulate them. This blog is as good a place as any other (as a matter of fact when I asked Oge de Moor if it was appropriate he replied: “Readers of your blog are just … Read more

TOOLS 2012, “The Triumph of Objects”, Prague in May: Call for Workshops

17 April 20142 February 2012 by Bertrand Meyer

The TOOLS federated conferences, held in Prague May 28 to June 1, will include five conferences (TOOLS EUROPE, ICMT, Software Composition, Tests And Proofs, Multicore Software Engineering) and a number of workshop. It is still possible to propose workshops; the instructions are given here.