Last week we won the CITRENZ Award for Research for our paper ”A research framework for sustainable software“. In this paper we propose a Sustainable Lens as the basis for a research agenda. This Sustainable Lens could be an actual augmented reality headset, or it might be a way of describing how we see the… [Read more…]
July 20, 2010
At the CITRENZ conference last week Dobrila and Mike Lopez presented an interesting paper on sustainability worldviews of incoming students at Manukau Institute of Technology (pdf). Their paper aimed to replicate our study of Otago Polytechnic students (summarised in post “Can’t rely on geeks” here, from original paper). This replication aimed to cement the generalisability… [Read more…]
June 3, 2009
Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report… [Read more…]
February 27, 2009
As a facilitator of wider sustainable change, computing can have a far bigger impact than its own footprint. But we’ve a long way to go. Sophie Hallstedt finds that even in companies that have adopted sustainability as core strategy, there is little evidence of the decision systems needed to enable these goals. In one chapter of… [Read more…]
September 4, 2008
This post is from a paper we presented recently. It combines ideas from several earlier posts (especially this one). Mann, S. , Smith, L.G. (2008) Biomimicry as a super systems metaphor for software engineering? Supplmentary Proceedings of the 21st NACCQ. 287-296 Abstract This paper examines the use of biomimicry in software engineering. By adopting… [Read more…]
July 21, 2011
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