GIOVEDI 15 LUGLIO 2010
Seminario del prof. Pekka Abrahamsson (Università di Helsinki)

Facoltà di Ingegneria
Dipartimento di Ingegneria elettrica e elettronica
Aula 1 (nuovo edificio su via Is Maglias, di fronte al DIEE)
 
Seminario "I ’ve seen the future, and it’s software-shaped", del visiting prof. Pekka Abrahamsson (University of Helsinki) per la presentazione della "Software Factory", iniziativa didattica, imprenditoriale e di ricerca, rivolto a chi ha interesse nella produzione di software.
 
 

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Software engineering is one of the few disciplines which continue to lack the university hospital of software development. There is no facility specifically designed to enable the research into software development that is realistic and open, and where the data can be freely shared for verification or research purposes. We can keep up debating about the need for setting up such an infrastructure or just go ahead and begin building it. 
 
Software Factory is a strategic investment to a new infrastructure supporting empirically driven software engineering research, education and entrepreneurship globally. The reference implementation of the Factory is now in place (in University of Helsinki, Finland) and it is currently expanding to its global capacity housing up to 150 software engineers by end of 2011. Early results are very promising. For pre-reading, go http://www.softwarefactory.cc/magazines for details.
 
The Software Factory was officially opened after the delivery of its first fully operating business prototype in 4.3.2010. A quote from a senior manager from a global company producing cellular base stations (Nokia Siemens Networks) tells us that we are on the right track:

“This is exactly the thing that I had in my mind, but you had it already put in practice. All the angles well thought of and first steps already taken. I will remain waiting for the future developments with excitement. Really positive thing!!!! My guess is that this will remain as one of the most significant steps in University’s computer science education.”

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PRESENTER BIO
 
Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson is a full professor of computer Science in University of Helsinki. He is currently a visiting professor in University of Cagliari in Sardinia. He has researched agile software development since 2002 and published actively in the area. He has lead large European wide research project aiming at developing solutions for agile embedded systems development. He received the Nokia
foundation award in 2007 for his achievements as a software researcher. His 22MEUR AGILE-ITEA project was awarded a ITEA Achivement Award (Silver) for outstanding industrial and scientific impact. He is currently the academic coordinator of a 60MEUR Cloud Software research program, which in part aims at benefiting from novel cloud technologies, lean processes and new business models. He is in the editorial board of Software Process Improvement and Practice and in the advisory board of IEEE Software. He is the member of ACM and IEEE.