The British Council has funded a number of projects aimed at developing research capacity in Vietnamese Universities. Middlesex University is working with several Universities from Vietnam as part of this set of projects. Our lead Vietnam partner is Van Lang University. The project is of course supported by the Faculty of Science and Technology at
Author: Balbir Barn
Pirating the IBM 360 and PL/1 Pointers: Dinner at #ICSE2018
ICSE 2018 (https://www.icse2018.org), celebrating 50 years of software engineering, is promising to be great event. An outstanding set of keynote speakers including Fred Brooks Jr, Brian Randell and Margaret Hamilton (https://www.icse2018.org/info/keynotes) will bring to bear an insightful reflection on modern software engineering research and practice. Today, I had an opportunity to converse with two pioneers
The Link between Vienna, Fake Art, John Le Carre and Anthony Blunt
One of the great joys of travelling to different locations is to try and establish obscure links between things that you see on location and what you already know. So what connects the semantics of forged art with spies and Vienna? To establish the relationship you have to go Europe’s only art gallery devoted to
Using Foucault to examine value sensitive design concerns
One of the great benefits in multi-disciplinary ways of working is the exposure to other ways of examining problems. Last week, a paper submitted to CAISE 2018 (a top-ranked IS conference) was accepted for publication. The paper: Human and Value Sensitive Aspects of Mobile App Design: A Foucauldian Perspective examines the use of Michael Foucault’s writing on
Towards Improved Organisational Decision-Making – A Method and Tool-chain
It’s taken a bit of time, but one of our early experiments on constructing a tool chain from existing technology to support organisational decision making finally got accepted in the German Informatics Society journal: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures Abstract Modern enterprises are large complex systems operating in an increasingly dynamic environment and are tasked