Many thanks to all speakers and participants of LASER 2010!

Goals

The LASER summer school, organized by the ETH Chair of Software Engineering, brings together the concepts and practice of software engineering in the idyllic setting of the Elba Island off the coast of Tuscany, easily reachable by air, car, bus or train.

The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school's focus is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers.

Topic and speakers

The speakers are among the most respected experts in the field:

• Victor Basili, University of Maryland
       on Evolving software engineering knowledge from application, observation, and learning
  
  
• Barry Boehm, University of Southern California
       on Developing and Calibrating Parametric Software Engineering Estimation Models
       and Integrating Empirical Software Engineering Research and Education
  
  
• Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
       on Replication of SE Experiments
  
  
• Tim Menzies, West Virginia University
       on Empirical Software Engineering (Version 2.0) and Data Mining
  
  
• Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software
       on Credible objective answers to fundamental software engineering questions
  
  
• Walter F. Tichy, University Karlsruhe
       on Empirical Methods in Software Engineering
  
  

• Joshua Bloch, Google
       on How To Design a Good API and Why it Matters
       and Performance Anxiety
  
  

Venue

The school takes place at the magnificent Hotel del Golfo in Golfo di Procchio, Elba. Along with an intensive scientific program, participants will have time to enjoy the natural and cultural riches of this history-laden jewel of the Mediterranean.

Previous lecturers

• 2004 - Practical Techniques of Software Quality Jean-Raymond Abrial, Ernie Cohen, Erich Gamma, Bertrand Meyer, Carroll Morgan, Pamela Zave
• 2005 - Software engineering for concurrent and real-time systems Laura K. Dillon, Bertrand Meyer, Jayadev Misra, Amir Pnueli, Wolfgang Pree, Joseph Sifakis
• 2006 - Practical Programming Processes Ralph-Johan Back, Miguel de Icaza, Erik Meijer, Bertrand Meyer, Mary Poppendieck, Andreas Zeller
• 2007 - Applied Software Verification Thomas Ball, Gérard Berry, C.A.R Hoare, Bertrand Meyer, Peter Müller, Natarajan Shankar
• 2008 - Concurrency and Correctness Tryggve Fossum, Maurice Herlihy, C.A.R Hoare, Bertrand Meyer, Robin Milner, Peter O'Hearn, Daniel A. Reed
• 2009 - Software Testing: The Practice And The Science Alberto Avritzer, Michel Cukier, Yuri Gurevich, Mark Harman, Bertrand Meyer, Tom Ostrand, Mauro Pezzè, Elaine Weyuker

This event is listed at the Computer Science Event List, www.informatics-europe.org

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