Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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The impact of germany’s stop of Uber
A German court ordered Uber to stop offering its taxi services (for now). The argument was as to be expected: Uber taxi drivers and cars are not fit for the job. This is definitely the right decision under the assumption that the German taxi approval rules make sense. Even if the court decision stands, this…
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Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für den Software-Engineering-Ideen-Track der SE 2015
Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für den Software-Engineering-Ideen-Track der SE 2015. (Ich bin der Programkomiteevorsitzende.) Änderung der Einreichungsdeadline! Jetzt 15.11.2014! Über die SE 2015 und den SEI-Track Die Software-Engineering-Tagung ist das wichtigste jährliche Treffen der Software-Engineering-Community im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt der SE 2015 ist das Thema “Sichere cyber-physikalische Systeme”.a Das Ziel des Software-Engineering-Ideen-Tracks…
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Upcoming keynote: The software engineering education tripod: Students, teachers, and industry
I’ll be keynoting the European Conference on Software Engineering Education on Nov 28, 2014, at 11:00 Uhr, at Seeon Monastery, Germany. Here is the abstract. See you at the conference! Abstract Over the last few years, we have shifted most of our courses from traditional upfront lecturing to project-based learning. Each course consists of multiple…
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Upcoming keynote: Sustainable open source
I’ll be keynoting the 16th KKIO Software Engineering Conference on Sept 22, 2014, in Posnan, Poland. Here is the abstract. See you at the conference! Abstract MySQL was sold for one billion US-dollar. Red Hat is worth a multiple of that. The Eclipse Foundation has pushed many software tool vendors out of business. How come…
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Open source career 2014 talk slides, photos, and video
The talk “The Open Source Software Developer Career and its Benefits”, which I gave at the 2014 Entwicklertag in Karlsruhe earlier this year, is now fully documented. You can take a look at the original paper, talk slides, event photos, and finally (woohoo!) a quality video recording courtesy of Andrena, the organizers of the Entwicklertag.…
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IT standards and open source (repeat)
An old debate has recently been rearing its ugly head: the value of standards in IT and the role of open source. In my view, it is really very simple. There are two types of standards, and they determine the role that open source can play. Examples of type 2 standards are the file formats…