Distinguished Speaker at IE February Webinar
In February, Informatics Europe continues its free webinar series with another distinguished speaker: Prof. Mira Mezini.
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Abstract:
Today’s applications - ranging from mobile digital services (instant messengers, multiplayer games, etc.), collaborative workflows (Google Docs, Figma, Trello, etc.), real-time businesses (cross-organizational workflows, collaborative condition monitoring, etc.), autonomous vehicle services, production 4.0 software, and more - are very different from traditional ones: They run on globally distributed computing infrastructures, consistently interact with the outside world and are data-driven. In this talk, I will argue that to cope with challenges posed by these new computing realities we need programming models and technologies that offer safety and security properties by-design. More specifically, I will talk about language-integrated solutions that offer formally-proven consistency guarantees “out-of-the-box” in a decentralized and privacy-preserving manner and will present the ideas in the context of REScala (rescala-lang.com) - a library-based Scala extension.
About the speaker: Mira Mezini is full professor of Computer Science at Technical University of Darmstadt and leads the Software Technology Lab. After her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Siegen in Germany, she spent two years as a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston (USA), before joining TU Darmstadt in 2000. She is member of the board of the National Research Center for Applied Cyber Security ATHENE and spokesperson of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Mira has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, many of the them in the most prestigious venues in programming languages and software engineering. She is elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and has received various research awards, including IBM Eclipse Innovation Awards, a Google Research Award, the German IT Security Award, and an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
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