12.5.2014

New Pervasive Computing Blog opened

After the reorganization of departments in TUT, Department of Software Systems exists no more. Most of the department is now part of Department of Pervasive Computing which has a blog here. This blog is no more updated.

26.8.2013

Seminar: Back-end as a service

Hi

Antero Taivalsaari and Kari Systä will run a seminar on new technology called "Back-end as a service". It is a new and promising approach to build (mobile) web services for 
the cloud.

A short summary about the seminar:
     http://www.cs.tut.fi/~taivalsa/kurssit/BaaS2013/

Want to know more? See Wikipedia article about BaaS
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backend_as_a_service

If you are interested, send an email to kari.systa@tut.fi.nospam (remove .nospam) with a Subject "[BaaS] ...."

9.8.2013

TIE-12206 Research Seminar on Startup Software Engineering (4 credits)

TIE-12206  Research Seminar on Startup Software Engineering (4 credits)
Time: Wednesdays 4.9 - 18.12.2013 at 12-14
Place: TC 114

A growing trend in industrial software engineering is that new software products and information services are developed under conditions of notable uncertainty. This is especially visible in startup enterprises which aim at new kinds of products and services in rapidly changing social web, where potential customers can quickly adopt new behavior. This trend has resulted in a software engineering paradigm (called here Startup Software Engineering, SSE), where the development and the usage of a product or service are not separated, but merged into a fast build-use-measure-learn cycle. This is in sharp contrast with existing software engineering paradigms which assume that requirements have been elicited before the actual development starts, and which emphasize controlled process rather than fast delivery. 

The purpose of the seminar is to map out the current knowledge on SSE, both from the viewpoint of technical solutions and from the viewpoint of the development process and its management. Since this a new topic in software engineering research, the seminar is expected to have a flavor of preliminary research, rather than a traditional literature review seminar. The students will go through existing material related to the topic, interview startups in Tampere region, and identify practices and technical solutions that support SSE. These practices and solutions are refined into patterns using the pattern workshop method. The seminar program consists of introductory lectures (about 4h), student presentations and discussion sessions on related literature topics (about 10h), and pattern workshops (about 20h).


The seminar is intended primarily for PhD students. The language of the seminar is English. The number of participants is limited. If you are interested to participate, please send email to Kai Koskimies, kai.koskimies@tut.fi.


Kai

 

5.8.2013

TIE-11100 Tietotekniikan opetustaidon kurssi

Moi!

TIE-11100 Tietotekniikan opetustaidon kurssin (1op) intensiiviopetusjakso järjestetään tänä vuonna 22.-23.8.2013. Molempina päivinä opiskelua on n. 8h. Intensiivijakson lisäksi suoritusvaatimuksiin kuuluu opetushajoittelun seuranta ja opetusharjoittelu.

Opintojakso on hyödyllinen erityisesti kaikille uusille assareille, joten luennoijat ja muut, tiedottakaa siitä omille assareillenne. Vanhemmatkin assarit/luennoijat ja muut opettamisesta kiinnostuneet ovat toki tervetulleita mukaan!

Tarkempia tietoja opintojaksosta: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ope/

Ilmoittautumiset opintojaksolle viimeistään 18.8.2013 sähköpostitse Essille osoitteeseen essi@cs.tut.fi. Kerrothan sähköpostiviestissäsi, mitä opiskelet TTY:lla ja toimitko opetustehtävissä lukuvuoden 2012-2013 aikana. Jos kiinnostuneita on paljon, saatamme joutua rajaamaan osallistujien määrää ja käytämme ilmoittautumissähköposteissa kerrottuja tietoja osallistujien valinnassa. Kaikille ilmoittautuneille lähetetään lisätietoja opintojaksosta 19.8.2013.

Tervetuloa mukaan!

Essi & Terhi

9.4.2013

Vierailuluento avoimesta datasta keskiviikkkona (ohar)

Moi!

Ohjelmistoarkkitehtuurien kurssilla on huomenna Jukka Lintusaaren (UTA, 
Smart Traffic Business Development) pitämä vierailuluento avoimesta 
datasta ja sen merkityksestä. Tervetuloa!

Paikka: TB109
Aika: keskiviikko 10.4.2013 klo 10-12

11.3.2013

Viksut Vekottimet

Viksut Vekottimet (Intelligent Machines) is a free seminar at Tampere University of Technology. It's aimed for professional developers and everyone else working in control system software development. It will be organized on 27th of March 2013.
Embedded control systems have special characteristics, such as close dependency to hardware, strict real-time requirements, distribution, and long life-cycle of the products. In addition, standards and regulations dictate how functional safety should be taken into account. This makes the development of control systems challenging. Usually, control system developers need to tackle the common challenges: testing and simulation, subcontracting, life-cycle and configuration management, agile software development, etc.

Research meeting

Hello,

Department's March research meeting is on Tue 12.3 at 15:15 in room
TC128.

Presenter: Jussi Parviainen (from the old computer science department).

Topic: Activity and Environment Recognition for Mobile Phones

Design of novel applications for modern smartphones has boomed in the
past years. This is partly due to easy access to new information
sources, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and motion sensors.

For the application designers the smartphone environment is very
different from the earlier computer world. Applications are running
continuously, and the environment and activity of the user changes many
times a day. Context information is often required to provide only the
most relevant information or services to the user. In the present
paradigm the application requires the user to provide this information,
such as 'I am in a meeting'. Undoubtedly it would be more convenient if
this context information could be inferred automatically. For this
reason, context recognition using built-in sensors of modern mobile
phones is an active research topic. The research problem is far from
trivial, as the sensors provide only indirect information; there is no
sensor for directly detecting 'meetings' or 'jogging'.