On beauty and software (online talk on Wednesday, 17 CET / 11 EDT / 8 PDT)






This Wednesday (still “tomorrow” as I am writing this), 10 March 2021, I am giving a talk on “The Beauty of Software” on the occasion of the graduation ceremony of the first students of the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology. The event starts at 17 Schaffhausen/Zurich/Paris etc. time (11 AM New York, 8 AM San Francisco) … Read more




New master program at SIT: Webinar tomorrow






The Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) is holding a Webinar tomorrow with a set of three talks by: Serguei Beloussov, founder of Acronis and president of SIT; Michael Widenius, CTO of MariaDB and creator of MySQL Server; and Mauro Pezzè, my colleague at SIT, who will present the new master program that we have just … Read more




Two talks by Gilles Brassard in Zurich and Schaffhausen, this Wednesday






Gilles Brassard, quantum cryptography pioneer (among other achievements), will give two talks this Wednesday (22.01): One at the University of Zurich, at 11:15 (session start at 10:30) on “The Art of Secret Communication in a Quantum World””. The other at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology at 18:30 (session start at 17:30, talks followed by Apéro) … Read more




This Wednesday in Nice: survey talk on the Eiffel method






The “Morgenstern Colloquium” at the University of Nice / INRIA Sophia Antipolis invited me to give a talk, next Wednesday (18 December) at 11 in Sophia Antipolis, in the aptly named* “Kahn Building”. The announcement appears here. I proposed various topics but (pleasant surprise) the organizers explicitly asked me to lecture about what I really … Read more




Software Engineering Education: FISEE coming up






Over the past few days I have come across several people who told me they want to attend the Frontiers In Software Engineering Education (FISEE) workshop in Villebrumier, 11-13 November, but have not registered yet. If that’s your case please register right now because: The number of spots is limited (it’s a residential event, everyone … Read more




New speaker and final announcement for LASER 2018 on blockchains (Elba, June)






There is one more speaker at the LASER 2018 summer school two weeks from now: Dominic Woerner from Bosch. Mr. Woerner is a solution architect for Internet of Things and distributed ledger applications with Bosch Digital Solutions, and a researcher within the Bosch Economy of Things research project. He did his PhD at ETH Zurich … Read more




New session of online Agile course starts now






Just about a year ago I posted this announcement about my just released Agile course: In spite of all the interest in both agile methods and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) there are few courses on agile methods; I know only of some specialized MOOCs focused on a particular language or method. I produced for … Read more




Software for Robotics: 2016 LASER summer school, 10-18 September, Elba






The 2016 session of the LASER summer school, now in its 13th edition, has just been announced. The theme is new for the school, and timely: software for robotics. Below is the announcement. School site: here The 2016 LASER summer school will be devoted to Software for Robotics. It takes place from 10 to 18 … Read more




Understanding and assessing Agile: free ACM webinar next Wednesday






ACM is offering this coming Wednesday a one-hour webinar entitled Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly. It will air on February 18 at 1 PM New York time (10 AM West Coast, 18 London, 19 Paris, see here for more cities). The event is free and the registration link is here. The … Read more




Saint Petersburg Software Engineering Seminar: 14 January 2014 (6 PM)






There will be two talks in the Software Engineering Seminar at ITMO, 18:00 local time, Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Please arrive 10 minutes early for registration. Place: ITMO, Sytninskaya Ulitsa, Saint Petersburg. Andrey Terekhov (SPBGU): Programming crystals (I do not know whether this talk will be in Russian or English. An abstract follows but the … Read more