Software Research and the Industry

Next three public talks on open source that I’ll be giving in Germany:

Nuremberg, 25.02.10 – Talend Business Lunch, talk topic: Sustainability of Commercial Open Source
Hannover, 02.03.10 – CeBIT Open Source Forum keynote: Open Source Software Developer Careers
Erlangen, 30.04.10 – Tag der Informatik, Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg: Open Source and the Software End-Game

[Read more →]

OOPSLA 2010 Research Papers
October 17 to 20
Reno/Tahoe Nevada, USA
www.splashcon.org
Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2010
Accept/Reject Notification Date: May 24, 2010
OOPSLA 2010 solicits research papers that present new research, report novel technical results, advance the state of the art, or discuss experience or experimentation. The scope of OOPSLA includes all aspects of programming languages and software engineering, [...]

[Read more →]

I will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium’s workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine next month. The organizers asked participants to provide a short opinion on three research areas they feel warrant further research. I chose the following three general topics:

Quantitative Analyses of Actual Programmer Behavior
Improved Open Source Process [...]

[Read more →]

Ike Nassi, an Executive Vice President and my former manager at SAP, writes in an email:
By accident, while reviewing a very old CACM paper “Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations” by Dennis and Van Horn from March 1966 (!) reprinted in the CACM 25th Anniversary issue (Volume 26, Issue 1 (Jan. 1983) Special 25th Anniversary Issue) [...]

[Read more →]

Authors: Dirk Riehle
Abstract: An open source foundation is a group of people and companies that has come together to jointly develop community open source software. Examples include the Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and the Gnome Foundation. There are many reasons why software development firms join and support a foundation. One common economic [...]

[Read more →]

2009 is coming to an end and so are my first four months as a professor. Time to take stock, if only shortly.

The Open Source Research group posted a year-end summary for its first months
There is initial sponsorship by Red Hat and Novell, demonstrating industry interest
There was a fair amount of press around the professorship, [...]

[Read more →]

It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks:

10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
08.05.2010: 2010 ICSE workshop [...]

[Read more →]

If you are interested in open source and software engineering, please take a look at these upcoming events:

27.12.2009: (F/L)OSS 2010, research program call for papers
11.01.2009: SSE 2010, a workshop on social software engineering
25.03.2010: OOPSLA 2010, research program call for papers
31.03.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop

Disclaimer: Except for the last one I’m on each program committee.

[Read more →]

As you may seen in an earlier blog post, I’m starting in a new position as a professor of software engineering focussing on open source software at the University of Erlangen. In this post, I’m laying out my abbreviated research agenda as of September 2009.
The overarching goal of my group’s research is to comprehensively define [...]

[Read more →]

After 12 years of working in the high-tech industry, I’m changing gears. I left my prior industry job and am starting today, September 1st, as the “professor for open source software” in the computer science department of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. This is a free (not tied to a chair) [...]

[Read more →]