[Om-announce] Ideas for future LASER schools

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Dear former attendees of the Chair of Software Engineering’s events:
 
As you will have seen, we are continuing the LASER summer school series. (See
the announcement below for the 2017 summer school, on Software for Robotics,
with a particularly exciting set of speakers.) For long-term sustainability, the
school, long organized by ETH, is now under the responsibility of an independent
nonprofit foundation: the LASER foundation, based in Zurich.
 
We are looking for topic  suggestions for the coming years, particularly from
those of you who came to LASER in the past.
 
The suggestions should be in the general scope of the school: Applied Software
Engineering Research. LASER is unique in its combination of a high scientific
level and a focus on applications, all covered by world-class speakers,
including several Turing Award winners (not counting those who we think *will*
get the Turing award at some point!). We will continue to hold the school in the
extraordinary setting of Elba’s Hotel del Golfo or equivalent.
 
Please do not just include a theme because you are intellectually interested in
it, but because you or close colleagues would likely attend a school on that
theme. You are of course welcome to include associated speaker suggestions.
 
You can just email your ideas to me.
 
Looking forward to your input! And to seeing some of you in Elba this September
for another great LASER.
 
-- Bertrand Meyer  
 
 
 
The 2017 LASER summer school (
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be devoted to Software for Robotics. It takes place from 9 to 17 September in
the exceptional setting of the Hotel del Golfo in Procchio, Elba Island, Italy.
Robotics is progressing at an amazing pace, bringing improvements to almost
areas of human activity. Today’s robotics systems rely ever more fundamentally
on complex software, raising difficult issues. The LASER 2017 summer school both
covers the current state of robotics software technology and open problems. The
lecturers are top international experts with both theoretical contributions and
major practical achievements in developing robotics systems.
The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and
managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students.
Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from
the pioneers in the field. The school’s focus is applied, although theory is
welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors
extensive interaction between participants and speakers.
We have lined up an impressive roster of speakers from the leading edge of both
industry and academia:
• Davide Brugali, University of Bergamo, on Managing software variability in
robotic control systems 
• Rodolphe Gélin, Softbank Robotics
• Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research
• Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, on Software Architectures
of Robotics Systems
• Bertrand Meyer, Politecnico di Milano & Innopolis University, on Concurrent
Object-Oriented Robotics Software
• Issa Nesnas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on Experiences from robotic
software development for research and planetary flight robots
• Hiroshi (“Gitchang”) Okuno, Waseda University & Kyoto University, on
Open-Sourced Robot Audition Software HARK: Capabilities and Applications
The school takes place at the magnificent Hotel del Golfo (
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Procchio, Elba. Along with an intensive scientific program, participants will
have time to enjoy the countless natural and cultural riches of this wonderful,
history-laden jewel of the Mediterranean.
For more information about the school, the speakers and registration see the
LASER site at
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gP3Gp99FnNmFjLspRaQCDPcTqtNve6Gd8Y&e=> https://www.laser-foundation.org/. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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