Period and fertility tracking apps are hugely popular in Aotearoa and around the world. App users typically use these apps to predict upcoming periods, ovulation dates, or just to learn and know more about their bodies. Anna Friedlander is a … Continued
We are pleased to share a whitepaper on the Aotearoa New Zealand Software Engineering Research Strategy 2024. The whitepaper was led by Sherlock Licorish and Matthias Galster, with contributions from Panos Patros, Ewan Tempero, Tony Savarimuthu, Tony Clear, Judy Bowen, … Continued
Tony Clear, Associate Professor from Auckland University of Technology is participating in an international research project exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its effects on the IT workplace. This study delves into the implications of AI for IT professionals and the … Continued
Recently, SI^NZ members Ewan Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, and James Noble have received the Most Influential Paper award at the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), held in Seoul, South Korea at the end of 2023. The award was … Continued
Members of Software Innovation New Zealand partnered with the academics at Monash University and University of Melbourne to organise the first Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS 2024) in conjunction with the annual Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) 2024. The … Continued
Dr Rita Garcia is a Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies and an Adjunct Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. She has 15 years of software development experience in the Visual Effects (VFX) industry. She previously worked at Pixar Animation … Continued
Prof. Stephen MacDonell has recently attended a webinar that discussed strategies and tools for successfully conveying impact stories, which he thought could be useful for SI^NZ members pursuing external funds. “I think it could be helpful for SI^NZ members who … Continued
An opportunity of a Marsden Fund PhD Scholarship is available! The scholarship will pay NZD35,000 per year for three years, plus creative research & programming will also cover the student’s fees. This scholarship is tenable at any New Zealand University, … Continued
Dr. Jemma König is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Waikato. Her postdoctoral research is part of a larger MBIE funded project called Tini o te Hakituri. Hakituri focuses on investigating the use … Continued
Sherlock Licorish, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, believes that online code snippets, such as those shared on Stack Overflow, should be reused with caution during software development. His research … Continued