The University of Ottawa is hiring four faculty members in computer science (all areas, including software engineering). Please see the official posting linked here: Deadline March 2.

Congratulations to Reyhaneh Kalantari for completing her PhD: Adoption of Software Modeling Tools: Modeler Experience, Barriers and Benefits. It is now available for download along with anonymized data.

It is beyond absurd that Doug Ford's government is going to ban new bike lanes in Ontario unless he approves. I sometimes bike the 14km to work, and there is one short stretch without a proper lane. The Convervatives are generally misinformed, but this is just plain stupid.

RT @ICSEconf: The Industry Challenge Track at ICSE 2025 is seeking papers discussing insights, innovations, and solutions to software engin….

A fascinating article that has led me to new lines of thinking (and a measure of optimism) about AI and many other topics: The implausibility of intelligence explosion by François Chollet

Geoffrey Hinton says "There’s a 50-50 chance AI will get smarter than us [between 5 and 20 years]. When it gets smarter than us, I don’t know what the probability is that it will take over, but it seems to me quite likely.". I agree. Excellent interview:

RT @UmpleOrg: Umple 1.34.0 has been released: Key changes: Improvements to C++ code generation; editing of state di….

#Ottawa scores as one of the best cities for walkability (not counting small cities) in the US/Canada (left in image) in the Economist's analysis. But is utterly outdone by European cities (right)!

RT @ICSEconf: Neha Rungta from Amazon will be a keynote speaker at #icse2025

My dear sister Claire passed away two weeks ago. Her obituary has just been published. The funeral is May 25 in Bathurst, N.B. where she lived since we moved to Canada from @DenmeadArea in 1975

Canadian budget finally proposes proper funding for grad students and postdocs

Lionel Briand is presenting the keynote at the M02RE (1st Workshop on Multi-disciplinary, Open, and RElevant Requirements Engineering) @icseconf 2024 Lisbon. He talked about the fact that most organizations don't bother to create good requirements + ways to improve the situation.

Michel Chaudron, Rick Kazman, Mary Shaw, Liming Zhu, Marian Petre in a panel at the Designing workshop in @icseconf 2024, Lisbon

The ICSE 2025 logo was created by my teen Robin, a UOttawa student!.

3 out of 6 forecast models predict snow early Sunday at @NakkertokNordic before @CourseENGNERace Nationals. Let's hope! I have volunteered to help early Sunday. The other 3 models say just rain (click on 'Compare' to see in this: )

The @icseconf submission site for ICSE 2025 is now open! . deadline for initial abstract March 15th. For the call for papers see

RT @szschaler: If you #teach #software #modelling, please share your views with us in this #survey: Please also sha….

My PhD student Reyhaneh Kalantari is conducting a 10-minute survey about relevance of modeling in software development. Whether or not you do modeling, if you are a developer with 5+ years experience, please do the survey, or pass to a colleague who is:

Congratulations to Emmanuel Ayeleso (@EAyeleso) on the completion of you PhD thesis: His thesis presents many ideas for how software can help people negotiate large textual agreements. It has been great working with you. Let's continue.

The ICSE2025 Ottawa website is live (even though ICSE2024 in Lisbon is still ahead!). The Research Track deadline is in March, 2024. @ICSEConf