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

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