Goodbye, Austen! Associate Professor Austen Rainer has stepped down as the Chair of SI^NZ in preparation for his upcoming move to the UK. You can revisit Austen’s profile here and read his thoughts on serving in this role below. On … Continued
Reported by Austen Rainer The 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) and Australasian Software Week (ASW) took place at the University of Adelaide, Australia, between 26 November – 30 November. Established in 1986, ASWEC is a leading forum for the … Continued
Dr Matthias Galster, the Social Event Coordinator of SI^NZ and Emerging Researcher Forum Chair of the EASE 2018 conference shares his thoughts. The EASE 2018 conference featured an Emerging Researchers Forum on 27 June 2018. A high calibre panel of leading international … Continued
Associate Professor Austen Rainer, the Chair of SI^NZ and General Chair of the EASE 2018 conference shares his thoughts on the conference. On Friday 29 June, Gareth Cronin, Executive General Manager of Partner Products at Xero, and a co-founder and … Continued
Best paper awards were given out at the recently concluded Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) conference, held on 28-29 June 2018 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Researchers were recognized for their outstanding contributions in the categories of full papers, short … Continued
Tech giant Oracle has funded a bug-hunting Kiwi project targeting one of the world’s most widely used programming languages. The California-based corporation has gifted Massey University’s Associate Professor Jens Dietrich $60,000 to seek out bugs and security weaknesses in Java, … Continued
Ewan Tempero is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand, with a B.Sc., (Honours) in Mathematics in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science … Continued
A team of programming language researchers from Massey and Victoria won the prestigious Distinguished Artifact Award at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP’17) for their work on “Evil Pickles: DoS Attacks Based on Object-Graph Engineering”. The paper describes a … Continued
Software Innovation New Zealand (SI^NZ) now has 15 inaugural, fee-paying members from 7 different universities. We have created an online form to accept new membership applications. If you are an active software engineering researcher (this includes academics, post-docs, doctoral candidates, … Continued
Software Innovation New Zealand (SI^NZ) met again on 2nd November 2017 at Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ. The meeting was attended by members from around the country, representing Auckland University of Technology, Massey, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of … Continued