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

• Apr 7
• Apr 14 — Spring break (no meeting)
• Apr 21
• Apr 28
• May 5
• May 12
• May 19 — Mathias Birrer (NB: Oscar is back)
• May 26 — (Oscar away at eVoting workshop)
• June 2
• June 9
• June 16 — (Oscar in Italy)
• June 23 — (Oscar away at eVoting workshop)
• June 30

Presentations already given in 2020

• Mar 31 — Brian Schweigler — An Investigation into Vulnerability Databases (final Bachelors presentation)
• Mar 17 — Andreas Wälchli — A Sampling Profiler for JITing (first Masters presentation)
• Mar 3 — Pascal Gerig — Phishing on Demand (final Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 11
  • Timm Gross — Threats to validity in TDD research (final Bachelors presentation)
  • Noah Bühlmann — Security discussions in open source projects (first Bachelors presentation)
• Feb 4 — Alain Stulz — Assessing and Improving the Software Quality of an iOS App Framework (final Bachelors presentation)
• Jan 28
  • Dave Steven Meier — Cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow (Seminar)
  • Basil Schöni — Autogenerating Content Security Policies to Prevent Code Injection in Mobile Web Applications (final Bachelors presentation)
• Jan 21 — Christian Zürcher — Android: Bypassing HTTPS Security (Seminar)

See also: Past Seminar Presentations