Einladung zum UHH Informatik Kolloquium
Antrittsvorlesungen von Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg und Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej
Montag, 08. 04. 2013, 17:15–18:45
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal, Informatikum
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg
Im Anschluss gibt es Sekt und Häppchen bei ML und MobiS im Haus C.
Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Informatik, ML
Thema
Machine Learning Mysteries
Zusammenfassung
None (a mystery …)
Kurzbiographie
Last semester, Ulrike von Luxburg joined the Department of Computer Science as a Heisenberg-Professor for Machine Learning. The focus of her research is the theoretical analysis of machine learning algorithms, in particular of unsupervised learning and graph algorithms. She is (co)-winner of six best paper awards (NIPS 2004 and 2008, COLT 2003, 2005 and 2006, ALT 2007), action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning research, was program chair of COLT 2011, and is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society. She is also in the executive board of the German Young Academy, and last but not least, mother of a fantastic daughter.
Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej
Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Informatik, MobiS
Thema
“Oktoberfest Engineering” - On the Socialness of Software
Zusammenfassung
What do Oktoberfest and software have in common? Both cannot be successful without a strong user and community involvement, which I call socialness. While socialness has been the main success factor of Oktoberfest over the last 200 years, in this talk I will argue why socialness will be the main success factor of software systems and software engineering projects over the next 200 years.
Conventional software engineering processes are rather transactional and lack a common theory for the involvement of users and their communities. Users are regarded as pure consumers, who are, at most, able to report issues. In the age of pervasive mobile software and easy knowledge exchange, discounting the users of software might threaten its success. Potentially valuable experiences and volunteered resources get lost. Frustrated users might even meet in social communities to argue against the software and harm its reputation.
I will discuss means to revolutionize the role of users, dissolving the boundaries to software engineers. I will present a novel framework to systematically increase the socialness of software, enabling engineering teams to systematically collect and exploit user feedback in the software lifecycle. The framework observes users' interactions while they use the software to identify their context and predict their intentions. This allows for a whole spectrum of innovative, context-aware applications: from proactively collecting in situ feedback about software and services, to self-healing particular bugs. Some of these applications are already implemented with promising evaluations. Others are being researched with challenging issues, such as the comparison of users' context or the protection of their privacy.
Kurzbiographie
Walid Maalej is an assistant professor of informatics (W1) at the University of Hamburg and the head of the Mobile Services and Software Engineering group. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in 2012 and the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring medal for Germany's top Researcher in Informatics (2010-2013). His current research interests include, innovative mobile services, context-aware adaptive systems, and human factors in software engineering. He supervised more than 30 M.Sc and Ph.D. theses and published three books and more than 40 peer-reviewed papers on these topics.
Walid is also a member of the Editor Board of the Journal of Systems and Software. I chaired the practice track of the IEEE RE'10 Conference, and successfully organized 12 international scientific events. Walid served as consultant and developer for numerous companies including Siemens, Tata Consultancy Services, Rohde und Schwarz, and Telekom. Previously, he was leading a research group on context and human aspects in software at the TU Munich, where I received his M.Sc. in 2006 and his Ph.D. in 2010 - both with distinction. Walid is the initiator and lead architect of the open source projects TeamWeaver and FastFix.
Kontakt
Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej
Telefon: -2073