IT University of Copenhagen sitecore@itu.dk https://video.itu.dk en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss IT University of Copenhagen Stay up to date with all the things that are happening at IT University of Copenhagen. This podcast will serve you various videos and audios with accounts from scientists and actual students at IT University, and give you a glimpse into their... episodic no https://video.itu.dk/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://video.itu.dk http://video.itu.dk/photo/86080238/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-5 <p><p>On May 26, Miguel Sicart, Head of Center for Digital Play, will present his inaugural lecture as professor.&nbsp;</p><p>He has spent the past twenty years working in games research where he has been investigating technology and society through the lens of play. Today he is considered a pioneer in the field of game studies.</p><p>The lecture will take place at 13:00 in Auditorium 2.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/86080238/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-5"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/64968556/86080238/ad10478a65e432278e393ed0fe80c089/standard/download-29-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://video.itu.dk/photo/86080238 Tue, 30 May 2023 14:53:31 GMT INAUGURAL LECTURE BY PROFESSOR MIGUEL ANGEL SICART On May 26, Miguel Sicart, Head of Center for Digital Play, will present his inaugural lecture as professor.He has spent the past twenty years working in games research where he has been investigating technology and society through the lens of play. Today he is considered a pioneer in the field of game studies.The lecture will take place at 13:00 in Auditorium 2. On May 26, Miguel Sicart, Head of Center for Digital Play, will present his inaugural lecture as professor.He has spent the past twenty years working in games research where he has been investigating technology and society through the lens of... IT University of Copenhagen 49:38 <p><p>On May 26, Miguel Sicart, Head of Center for Digital Play, will present his inaugural lecture as professor.&nbsp;</p><p>He has spent the past twenty years working in games research where he has been investigating technology and society through the lens of play. Today he is considered a pioneer in the field of game studies.</p><p>The lecture will take place at 13:00 in Auditorium 2.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/86080238/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-5"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/64968556/86080238/ad10478a65e432278e393ed0fe80c089/standard/download-29-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> center for digital play inaugural lecture inaugurating miguel sicart http://video.itu.dk/photo/60011183/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-1 <p>Abstract:<p></p> <p>Software development is a cooperative endeavor. To develop both useful and usable software in a sustainable way, people have to cooperate and communicate, across organizational and disciplinary borders. The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering will become even more defining in the future: The development of societal IT infrastructures, the spreading of open source, and the increasing provision of software as a service challenges our conceptualization of software engineering on a deeper level: These developments imply changes to the technical design as well as the social arrangements of how software is developed. We, though, do not have the concepts to understand and support these developments. The current theory of computer science and software engineering, by and large, neglects the cooperative dimension of software development.</p> <p>The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering have been at the core of my research: I have been part of introducing qualitative social science methods into software engineering and developed Cooperative Method Development, an action research approach tailored to software engineering. Based on the results of several empirical research projects, I challenged the common understanding of software engineering of where, when and how software is developed: software is developed through an interlacing of heterogeneous design and development activities often spread across organizations and continuing throughout the lifetime of software products. End-user development is part of this interlacing that enables organizations to maintain their capability to innovate the way they work together with the supporting IT infrastructure.</p> <p>I outline three lines of research that I see as necessary to understand and support the industry and society to cope with the challenges outlined above: a.) In order to understand and support continuous software engineering of software as a service, we need to learn how high-performance CSE teams manage; b.) in order to support our society to make use of the data and it-infrastructures we need to find new ways co-design IT; and c.) last but not least, in order to support current and emerging ways in which software engineering is organized, we need to develop our theoretical underpinning to also embrace the cooperative and human aspects of software.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/60011183/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-1"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543331/60011183/993237fb5b8b032fd0d4e67f476f1a9f/standard/download-5-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://video.itu.dk/photo/60011183 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:16:04 GMT Inaugural Lecture by Professor Yvonne Dittrich Abstract: Software development is a cooperative endeavor. To develop both useful and usable software in a sustainable way, people have to cooperate and communicate, across organizational and disciplinary borders. The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering will become even more defining in the future: The development of societal IT infrastructures, the spreading of open source, and the increasing provision of software as a service challenges our conceptualization of software engineering on a deeper level: These developments imply changes to the technical design as well as the social arrangements of how software is developed. We, though, do not have the concepts to understand and support these developments. The current theory of computer science and software engineering, by and large, neglects the cooperative dimension of software development. The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering have been at the core of my research: I have been part of introducing qualitative social science methods into software engineering and developed Cooperative Method Development, an action research approach tailored to software engineering. Based on the results of several empirical research projects, I challenged the common understanding of software engineering of where, when and how software is developed: software is developed through an interlacing of heterogeneous design and development activities often spread across organizations and continuing throughout the lifetime of software products. End-user development is part of this interlacing that enables organizations to maintain their capability to innovate the way they work together with the supporting IT infrastructure. I outline three lines of research that I see as necessary to understand and support the industry and society to cope with the challenges outlined above: a.) In order to understand and support continuous software engineering of software as a service, we need to learn how high-performance CSE teams manage; b.) in order to support our society to make use of the data and it-infrastructures we need to find new ways co-design IT; and c.) last but not least, in order to support current and emerging ways in which software engineering is organized, we need to develop our theoretical underpinning to also embrace the cooperative and human aspects of software. Abstract: Software development is a cooperative endeavor. To develop both useful and usable software in a sustainable way, people have to cooperate and communicate, across organizational and disciplinary borders. The cooperative and human aspects... IT University of Copenhagen 49:15 <p>Abstract:<p></p> <p>Software development is a cooperative endeavor. To develop both useful and usable software in a sustainable way, people have to cooperate and communicate, across organizational and disciplinary borders. The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering will become even more defining in the future: The development of societal IT infrastructures, the spreading of open source, and the increasing provision of software as a service challenges our conceptualization of software engineering on a deeper level: These developments imply changes to the technical design as well as the social arrangements of how software is developed. We, though, do not have the concepts to understand and support these developments. The current theory of computer science and software engineering, by and large, neglects the cooperative dimension of software development.</p> <p>The cooperative and human aspects of software engineering have been at the core of my research: I have been part of introducing qualitative social science methods into software engineering and developed Cooperative Method Development, an action research approach tailored to software engineering. Based on the results of several empirical research projects, I challenged the common understanding of software engineering of where, when and how software is developed: software is developed through an interlacing of heterogeneous design and development activities often spread across organizations and continuing throughout the lifetime of software products. End-user development is part of this interlacing that enables organizations to maintain their capability to innovate the way they work together with the supporting IT infrastructure.</p> <p>I outline three lines of research that I see as necessary to understand and support the industry and society to cope with the challenges outlined above: a.) In order to understand and support continuous software engineering of software as a service, we need to learn how high-performance CSE teams manage; b.) in order to support our society to make use of the data and it-infrastructures we need to find new ways co-design IT; and c.) last but not least, in order to support current and emerging ways in which software engineering is organized, we need to develop our theoretical underpinning to also embrace the cooperative and human aspects of software.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/60011183/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-1"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543331/60011183/993237fb5b8b032fd0d4e67f476f1a9f/standard/download-5-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> inaugural lecture Yvonne Dittrich http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor <p><p>Abstract:<br></p><p>I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.</p><p>I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.&nbsp;<br><br>Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.</p><p>I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543317/58001102/3c503a0ef88b3425e723b56d3a85d277/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:30:49 GMT Inaugural Lecture by Professor Thore Husfeldt Abstract:I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience. Abstract:I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.I will try to explain my view... IT University of Copenhagen 49:59 <p><p>Abstract:<br></p><p>I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.</p><p>I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.&nbsp;<br><br>Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.</p><p>I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543317/58001102/3c503a0ef88b3425e723b56d3a85d277/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> inaugural lecture Professor Thore Husfeldt