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ATEM 2007 Panel Post Rehosted

The SLE conference started essentially at MODELS 2007 with the ATEM workshop. We had an important panel back then and it was informed by a MSDN blog post which is no longer available under the same URL. So I am rehosting the content, even though there is some backup somewhere else . More on IT entropy Article  09/25/2007 I look forward a panel on "Grand Challenges in Software Language Engineering", which is going to be the closing event at  ATEM 2007 , which is the 4th International Workshop on (Software) Language Engineering (SLE). I have attended a number of panels over the years, and I find it very difficult to actually moderate a panel (no matter whether it's me or someone else). I contend that one standard problem is that you invite 4+ celebrities in the field and hope they spark off an interesting Q&A-biased panel by means of crisp introductions. What often happens is that the celebrities turn into marketing engines and roll off a longer slide deck or just keep

My VLOEBERGHS chair 2022

VU Brussels kindly honored me with the  VLOEBERGHS CHAIR LECTURES 21/22 . I spent the week of 16-20 May 2022 in Brussels for that reason. In particular, I gave the inaugural lecture which I (eventually) titled as follows: Software knowledge analytics as a role model for making sense of the world The lecture is now available on  YouTube . Camera capture didn't work in the room -- some Covid hiccup. Enjoy the slides and the audio. PDF of the slides is available, too. In the inaugural lecture and the rest of the week, I covered a good bunch of use cases : Software language usage Software technology usage Software developer profiling Work-item prediction Ownership management … I submitted these principles : Hypothesis building Set up falsifiable hypotheses together with the research questions. Lay out the theory to back up those hypotheses/RQs to be reasonable and/or challenging. Data extraction and integration Follow an empirical approach — more artifact- than subject-based. Justify