Dr Kelly Blincoe from the University of Auckland was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant ($300k) in the 2020 funding round. This grant will enable her to investigate methods to enable automated updates of software dependencies even when breaking changes are introduced … Continued
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been some disruptions to our usual activities. We have shifted activities online where it is possible to do so, and will reschedule other events which require in person attendance. Please follow the health … Continued
A number of SI^NZ members have enjoyed recent success in securing funding from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge (SfTI) 2020 science investment round. SI^NZ members received four of the fifteen new Seed project awards for 2020. Each of … Continued
Two executive members of SI^NZ were involved in organizing the International Conference on Technical Debt 2020 (TechDebt). Fabian Gilson serves as the Tools track co-chair and Matthias Galster as the Program co-chair. Technical Debt (TD) describes a universal software development … Continued
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages … Continued
We will be having a software engineering and programming languages workshop 7-8 April 2020 in Wellington with international speakers from Canada, USA, Switzerland, and Australia. See the SINZ 2020 Workshop for details.
Members of the Software Innovation NZ steering committee met in Auckland on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019 to sign the newly created and formally approved constitution. With this, SI^NZ is now formally and officially constituted! In photo (left to right): … Continued
James Noble is a Professor of Computer Science in School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He holds a BSc(Hons) and PhD from VUW. James has the rare distinction of being awarded the prestigious Marsden … Continued
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