Newsletter September 2013
Contents Directors Message
Lero Announces New Chief Scientist Life Time Achievement Award EU Funding for Lero Investigating the Role of Software in the ICT Sector and Broader Economic Landscape in Ireland Research Quality Group 3rd Annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop Student Presentation Summer Research Scholarship Programme Cloud Computing Summit EuroSPI Best Paper Best Paper Award at IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration Major International Award for Lero @ DCU 18th Hi-Tech Congress Visit from David Alan Grier Nasa IV & V Facility 2013 Annual Lero Workshop ICSSP 2014 Extending the Support of Feature Model Configuration Process 1st IAIS Workshop on Cloud Computing Research Graduations and Vivas Welcome to Lero Moving on from Lero Publications
Lifetime Achievement Lero announces new Chief Scientist Award Lero has announced the appointment of Professor Brian Fitzgerald as chief scientist. Prof. Fitzgerald holds the Frederick A Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business & Technology at the University of Limerick where he was also VicePresident for Research from 2008-2011. He Prof Brian Fitzgerald is a Lero Principal Investigator and was founding director of the Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering. He was formerly at University College Cork, and has held visiting positions in Italy, Austria, Sweden, US and the UK. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing development methods, global software development, agile methods and open source software. Prior to joining academia, he worked for about 15 years in the software industry in Ireland and abroad. As Chief Scientist, he will support the Director in setting the scientific agenda of the centre and will work with the research teams to ensure that Lero’s research is of the highest standard. Prof. Mike Hinchey. Director of Lero commented: “I am delighted that Brian has accepted this role. He has made major contributions to Lero’s research since its inception in 2005 and is one of our most distinguished researchers. I look forward to working with him in advancing Lero’s contributions to software engineering.” Prof. Fitzgerald said: “Lero’s research in software engineering is very important to the progress of the software sector in Ireland. I look forward to working with the research teams and our industry partners to advance our capabilities.”
EUSSET and IISI wish to announce the award of its second biennial lifetime achievement award. This year, it has been decided that the 2013 award should be shared between two seminal thinkers in the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Human Computer Interaction, Professor Kjeld Schmidt and Professor Liam Bannon. Kjeld Schmidt is currently employed at Prof Liam Bannon the Copenhagen Business School, after a lifetime of service in Danish universities. Liam Bannon is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and Honorary Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, having previously held a variety of research positions in academic institutions around the world. Professor Schmidt and Professor Bannon were largely responsible for the creation and development of European CSCW research as a distinctive research arena, one in which attention to practice became regarded as fundamental to the design of socio-technical systems. Both have made a foundational contribution to the critical challenge that this European perspective has brought to design thinking. Not least, they have established and maintained a level of scholarship that is seldom equalled in the interdisciplinary arena. They were jointly and separately influential in the establishing of the both well-regarded and influential CSCW journal, of which Professor Schmidt has been the long- standing editor, and of the biennial ECSCW conference series. Their continued influence is evidenced by the enviable number of citations attached to a wide- ranging set of papers that they have contributed, separately and together, to CSCW and HCI. Their clarity of thought and purpose has been an inspiration to a generation of scholars and practitioners. The Awards were handed over during ECSCW 2013, September 25th, 2013
Director’s Message Welcome to another edition of our internal Lero newsletter. Inside you’ll find updates on new funding, publications, awards, and events. You’ll also read a report of our recent Athlone workshop, and many photos from the event. Many thanks to all of you who came to the workshop, which of course was also partly a preparation for our upcoming midterm review. I hope you found it useful and enjoyed interacting with
other Lero members. However it is important to remember that it’s a working event. While it’s good to have team building and to get to know our colleagues, it is important to attend the presentations. This is particularly true for doctoral students, in particular as we had several invited experts who were there to provide feedback and advice not just to those presenting but to all of our students.
Send comments, questions or contributions to info@lero.ie
I trust that all of you will benefit from the doctoral symposium next time around.
Professor Mike Hinchey Director
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