Conference Program

20 October 2005

8:00-09:00  Registration

09:00-09:15  Welcome and introduction: Bertrand Meyer, Willy Zwaenepoel

09:30-10:45 Session chair: Willy Zwaenepoel

Keynote 1: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington & (US) Computing Research Association

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 Session Chair: Iliana Nikolova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

 Short presentations and discussions:

  • Bologna process: implementation report
      Hans Hinterberger, ETH Zurich
  • Accreditation process
      Thomas Ottmann, University of Freiburg
  • Women in computer science
      Solange Ghernaouti-Helie, University of Lausanne HEC

Reports on experiences in various countries:

  • SPECIF (France), Christine Choppy, Université Paris-Nord
  • CPHC (UK), Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde
  • Fakultätentag (Germany), Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn
  • South African CS heads organization, Jan Eloff, University of Pretoria (to be confirmed)
  • Role of the ACM, Russell Shackelford, ACM

 

12:45-14:15 Lunch (ETH Dozentenfoyer)

14:15-16:00 Workshops (parallel sessions)

  • Attracting students to computer science - Room G5

(Leadership: Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne)

  • Computer science education for non-computer scientists - Room G26.1

(Leadership: Hans Hinterberger, ETH Zurich)

  • European perspectives for ICT research - Room G26.5

(Leadership: Giorgio de Michelis, DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca)

 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 Workshop reports and discussion

18:30-20:30 Conference dinner (ETH Dozentenfoyer)


21 October 2005

09:00-10:30 Session chair: Bertrand Meyer

Keynote 2: Michael Ley, Universität Trier, maintainer of the DBLP bibliography server.

Followed by discussion on research evaluation techniques and standards.

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 General discussion: curriculum issues, Bologna process

(Leadership: Manfred Nagl, RTWH Aachen)

 11:45-12:45 Final panel and discussion: Immediate actions and proposals, future events

Panel Chair: Willy Zwaenepoel

Panelists: Roger Boyle, Christine Choppy, Gregor Engels, Bertrand Meyer, Oscar Nierstrasz

12:45-14:00 Lunch (ETH Dozentenfoyer)

Afternoon: Post-conference program (optional): EPFL/ETH presentations

  • 14:00 – 14:30 Willy Zwaenepoel: Presentation of EPF Lausanne
  • 14:30 – 15:00 Bertrand Meyer: Teaching introductory programming: the outside-in approach
  • 15:00 – 15:30 Jürg Gutknecht: Lean native multiprocessor runtime kernels (Bluebottle)
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Peter Müller: Program verification with Spec# and Boogie
  • 16:00 – 16:45 Choice between:
    • Petros Koumoutsakos: Activities for large scale computations in Cell Biology and nanotechnology
    • Cary Kornfeld and Thomas Gross: Stereoscopic Imaging -- A Course&Lab for Undergraduate Students