Guest lecture about cybercouture at AuC

In collaboration with Agder University College we will try to announce guest lectures that could be of interest to the Software Engineering community and regional enterprises within the ICT sector.

Coming up this Wednesday (November 28th, Campus Grimstad, at 10:15 in Aud Max) is a lecture by Pia Myhrvold on cybercouture which in a laymans terms could be described as fashion meeting technology. I guess the lecture could be of interest to anyone with an interest in design and fashion and hopefully it might be a source of inspiration and some new impulses. To read up on Pia Myhrvold and her work visit these links: http://www.pia-myrvold.com/ and http://www.cybercouture.com/

Meeting yesterday

We had pretty low attendance for the meeting yesterday, with only four people (representatives from Mobikom, LogIT systems, Agder ICT-centre and one "freelance"). More people would have come but had other urgent business to attend to. Nonetheless we had an interesting discussion about emerging technology trends and managed to pinpoint some interesting topics for SIG meetings next year. We discussed the trends both from a marketing perspective using the Gartner report and innovationlab.dk reports as a guide and from an R&D perspective using the 7th framework program as the guide.

Some of the topics that are to be considered for next year are:

• Sensor networks (invited speakers to be decided)
• Hands-on advice on design for accessibility issues (contribution from the EIAO project)
• Microsoft major product releases - Vista, Office12, .net 3.0.... (invited speaker from Microsoft)
• Agile methods - role modeling, user stories, iterations, standup meetings, test-first... (?)
• Open Source collaboration (?)
• Applications for mobile devices (?)

BTW! we hope to switch to beta.blogger for this blog soon. At that point we will probably do some refurbishing of the blog, in particular using labels, promoting other blogs on the SIG community by aggregating their content etc.

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2007

Gartner recently released a report on important technologies to consider next year. Digi.no write about the report here. We will discuss this in more detail next week (22/11).

Yet another delay. New, new date is 22/11.

This is getting a bit embarrassing... we have to further postpone until 22/11.

New date for november meeting is 15/11

The planned meeting next week is rescheduled to wed. 15/11. Sorry about the any inconveniences due to the short notice.

We are back in business!

After some time with no activity in the Software Engineering Special Interest Group (SIG) we are back in business! We are resuming with a meeting on wed. 8/11 12:00-13:00 (AuC/HiA room 228) with the usual option of joining us for lunch in the employee restaurant at AuC from 11:30-12:00. The topic of the next meeting will be future technology trends - are we on the right track? We will use some sources such as the Gartner emerging technology radar to guide the discussion. Based on the discussion we will identify topics and make a tentative plan for meetings in 2007.

Some useful links to prepare the discussion:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=495475
http://www.digi.no/analyser/her+er+de+viktigste+nye+teknologiene/art285943.html
http://www.innovationlab.dk/sw21943.asp

For the meeting in December (date not set yet) we are planning to discuss Web 2.0 on mobile devices. Web 2.0 (ajax++) is exiting stuff and we see that it is stepping into mobile devices as well, which opens up for many exciting possibilities but also challenges. There is expertise on the topic in the neighborhood, with Ericsson and auSystems (formerly Teleca), and we will try to recruit some speakers to guide the discussion. We are also trying to get someone from Opera to talk about their Opera Platform but that might be hard on such a short notice.