The landscape of software engineering has dramatically changed. The recent advances in AI, the new opportunities of quantum computing, and the new challenges of sustainability and cyber security upset the software engineering research prospective. The ...

As we enter the new quantum age, tech giants like IBM, Google, and Microsoft are leading the way. But, there is a major challenge: we need to turn exciting quantum possibilities into real, practical tools. That's where Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) ...

Increasing system interconnectivity, decentralization, and introduction of new, more intelligent technologies, result in critical infrastructures becoming exposed to increased risk of cyber, physical, and combine cyber-physical attacks. Cyber-attacks on ...

This is an annotated summary of the main items contributed to the ACM Risks Forum in the most recent quarter, orgnanized categorically. References (R i j) to the online Risks Forum denote RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items generally identify ...

Peter Seibel's Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming is 600-odd pages of extraordinary software engineering wisdom and insight. It is also self-contradictory; these pages often disagree with each other, and sometimes actually argue with ...

Manuel Castells' The Rise of the Network Society is the first volume of a trilogy, The Information Age. It is a sociological work describing a new world arising from what some have called the second industrial revolution, the information revolution that ...

Edited by PGN (Risks Forum Moderator, with contribu- tions by others as indicated. Opinions are individual rather than organizational, with usual disclaimers implied. We ad- dress problems relating to software, hardware, people, and other circumstances ...

Edited by PGN (Risks Forum Moderator, with contribu- tions by others as indicated. Opinions are individual rather than organizational, with usual disclaimers implied. We ad- dress problems relating to software, hardware, people, and other circumstances ...

The Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2023), co-located with the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), was held on May 14, 2023 in a hybrid manner in Melbourne, Australia, and online. This ...

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are vital for modern societies, encompassing diverse sectors such as healthcare, banking, emergency services, energy, water distribution, oil and gas, and transportation. Over time, these CIs have become increasingly ...

Gail Murphy received the 2023 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for pioneering contributions to recommenders for software engineering and program comprehension that have impacted both theory and practice. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from ...

This column is a change of pace, a report on Formula Hybrid+Electric contest held last May at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. Formula Hybrid was founded by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and is sponsored by, among others, ...

Sydney Padua's The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage violates the rules of Passages in a technical sense; the book was published in 2015, so cannot be a classic, right? I could excuse cheating on the grounds that covering this delightful book ...

Where to begin? Things seem to be getting wildly out of control. I make a comment in the arti cial intelligence subsection here, relating to risks of autonomous robotic airplane pilots (Pibot, Wingman). That comment is also applicable to self-driving ...

Brian Harvey's Computer Science Logo Style (Volume 1: Symbolic Computing, Volume 2: Advanced Techniques, Volume 3: Beyond Programming) begins with the words: "This book isn't for everyone." There follows a brief account of the fact that not everyone ...

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Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden's Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages is a treasure. The book consists of interviews with the creators of, in order, C++, Python, APL, Forth, BASIC, AWK, Lua, ...

Big data sets and analytics are increasingly being used by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and privatecompanies to forward environmental protection. Improving energy efficiency, promoting environmental justice, tracking climate ...

Software Engineering (SE) is a new field compared to other sciences. The term Software Engineering first appeared in late 1950s. SE from its beginning has been continuously in the process of evolution. New approaches, methods, tools and techniques are ...

Usability and accessibility issues are common causes why software fails to meet user requirements. However, requirements engineers still focus on functional requirements and might ignore to also elicit system usability and accessibility requirements. ...