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).

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

2019

• Apr 23 — Spring break (no seminar)
• Apr 30 — TBA
• May 7 — TBA
• May 14 — Sylvain Julmy — bc running on Truffle (seminar)
• May 21 — Andreas Wälchli — Webassembly, from stack based to SSA and back (seminar)
• May 28 — Elio Fritschi — Outlining the state-of-the-art of requirements elicitation tools (seminar)

Presentations already given in 2019

• Apr 16 — Rathesan (Radi) Iyadurai — Audrey — On Demand Run time Information (Masters, final presentation)
• Apr 9 — Marc-Andrea Tarnutzer — Web Communication Analysis of Android Applications (Masters, final presentation)
• Mar 26 — Pooja Rani and Manuel Leuenberger — Comment soup with a pinch of types, served in a leaky bowl (Pharo Days rehearsal)
• Mar 19 — Simon Kafader — Fluent API for NodeJS Crypto (BSc first presentation)
• Mar 12 — Nitish Patkar — Towards a Catalogue of Mobile Ruquirements Elicitation Techniques
• Feb 26 — Artthik Sellathurai — Visual scenario builder in Pharo (Bachelors first presentation)
• Feb 19 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Feb 12 — Jonas Richner — Software Developers’ Information Needs (Bachelors final presentation)
• Feb 5 — Manuela Eschler — Search interface implementation for a Learning Management System (Bachelors final presentation)
• Jan 29 — Mario Hess — PerfVis: Visualization in Immersive Augmented Reality for Software Performance - A User Study (Bachelors, final presentation)
• Jan 15 — Dominik Briner — Mobile Security Support for Android Developers (Bachelors)
• Jan 8 — Mathias Birrer — Investigating developer’s questions using web scraping (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations