- Chi-Foon Chan, President & co-CEO, Synopsys, Inc., United States (DSD Keynote)
- Pernille Bjørn University of Copenhagen, Denmark (SEAA Keynote)
- Aldo Dagnino, ABB Corproate Research Center, United States (SEAA Keynote)
- João Cardoso University of Porto/FEUP/INESC-TEC, Portugal (DSD Keynote)
- José Principe, University of Florida, United States (DSD Keynote)
![]() Pernille Bjørn University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Global Software Development in a CSCW perspective: From Distance to Politics Wednesday, August 26th 14:30 – 15:30 Room Funchal |
Bio-sketch Pernille Bjorn is Professor for CSCW at the Computer Science Department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Pernille’s main interest is to investigate how people collaborate within complex work arrangement aiming at developing concepts useful for the design of collaborative technologies – and her main research area is Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). She has conducted ethnographic studies of collaborative work practices in several domains such as healthcare, engineering, and software development. Currently her main interest is global software development, where she is responsible for the ethnographic studies in 5 different organisational setups with different industry partners, as part of the NexGSD research project, which is a 5 years research project on global software development funded by the Danish strategic research council. Pernille’s research is in the cross-roads between CSCW, STS, CHI, and IS research. In December 2014 she published her first book: Sociomaterial-Design: Bounding Technologies in Practice in the Springer CSCW series. She has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings (e.g. CHI, CSCW, ECSCW) as well as in high-ranking journals such as the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Information System Journal, Action Research Journal, Science & Technology Studies, European Journal of Information Systems, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication. |
Abstract Software development today is done in collaborative situations, where clients, developers, managers, testers etc are located in different parts of the world, speaking different languages and living very different lives. Research into global software development is diverse; some are focusing on the processes and methods, others are focusing on the design of technology supporting the work – however few have investigated the basic nature of the collaborative work which emerges these settings. In this keynotes I will report from our ongoing interdisciplinary research project through the last 5 years investigating the Next Generation Tools and Processes for Global Software Development (nexgsd.org), and particular explore the journey which began with designing technologies for collaboration across distance to continue of a future path for designing technologies for collaboration across politics. |
![]() José Principe University of Florida, United States |
Ultra Low-Power Pulse Based Signal Processing Friday, August 28th 09:00 – 10:00 Room Funchal |
Bio-sketch Jose C. Principe (M’83-SM’90-F’00) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida where he teaches advanced signal processing, machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs) modeling. He is BellSouth Professor and the Founder and Director of the University of Florida Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL) www.cnel.ufl.edu. His primary area of interest is processing of time varying signals with adaptive neural models. The CNEL Lab has been studying signal and pattern recognition principles based on information theoretic criteria (entropy and mutual information). Dr. Principe is an IEEE Fellow. He was the past Chair of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Past-President of the International Neural Network Society, and Past-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Florida Brain Institute. Dr. Principe has more than 600 publications. He directed 81 Ph.D. dissertations and 65 Master theses. He wrote in 2000 an interactive electronic book entitled “Neural and Adaptive Systems” published by John Wiley and Sons and more recently co-authored several books on “Brain Machine Interface Engineering” Morgan and Claypool, “Information Theoretic Learning”, Springer, and “Kernel Adaptive Filtering”, Wiley. |
Abstract Numeric computation is at the core of man-made computation models. However, the human brain very likely does not use the same principles. This talk describes my efforts to think out of the box and look for alternate methods to perform computation with man-made devices. After a brief introduction we present the integrate-and-fire converter and show that one can convert analog signals into pulse trains with properties very similar to Nyquist sampling (a one to one mapping with a unique inverse). If so, how do we compute directly with pulse trains? We show that one approach is to implement finite state machines with attribute grammars, which require just 1,000 gates. I also will show how automata can be learned directly from the input pulse train using recurrent kernel filters. Preliminary results are presented. |