This is a seminar for Masters students in the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science as well as Bachelors, Masters and PhD students completing their project work or thesis in the Software Composition Group. Scheduled talks generally cover recent progress in project work or research. The seminar normally takes place on Tuesdays at 10h15 in room 107, Schützenmattstrasse 14).

NB: There will be no MSc seminar in the Spring semester 2020, just the regular weekly group meetings with thesis students.

Learning Outcomes

The seminar consists of a project and a presentation. You will have as a mentor one of the members of the SCG and will work on a practical and focused problem in the domain of programming languages and programmer productivity tools.

Seminar students will work on a small, supervised project during the semester. Due to the high cost of supervision, participation is strictly limited (selection will be based on the results of a short quiz).

After the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Build an Eclipse plugin for static analysis, or
• Write a crawler that analyzes open source software repositories, or
• Create a new method of visualizing software systems, or
• Work on the design and implementation of programming language tools

To prepare your presentation, please consult this checklist.

Scheduled Presentations

2020

• Jan 28
  • Dave Steven Meier — Cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow (Seminar)
  • Basil Schöni — Automatically Retrofitting Cordova Applications for Stricter Content Security Policies (final Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 4
  • Alain Stulz — Mobile app framework reengineering (final Bachelors presentation)
  • Artthik Sellathurai — Visual scenario builder (final Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 11 — TBA
• Feb 18 — TBA

Presentations already given in 2020

• Jan 21 — Christian Zürcher — Android: Bypassing HTTPS Security (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations