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
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