Informatics is Not a Craft – It is the Infrastructure of Our Future

Would you trust a bridge built of matchsticks to carry heavy traffic, just because the model looks perfect on a desk? 🌉🏗️

Probably not. We understand that a scale model is a craft, but a real bridge requires structural engineering,

Wishing everyone a great Software Engineering 2026 in Bern! As much as I’d love to discuss this in Bern, I won't be able to attend: Software engineering is a mission-critical skill that is still overlooked in many uniformed sectors.

„Ich bin kein Fan von Vibecoding. Ich glaube, wir holen uns da ein großes Problem über die Hintertür rein...“
👉️ Diesen Satz habe ich im Gespräch mit @Richard Seidl in seinem Software Software-Testing-Podcast zu den Software-QS-Tagen 2025 gesagt. Warum?

Mit den heutigen Sonnenstrahlen😎 wurde mir bewusst, dass der 11. Zukunftskongress Staat & Verwaltung 2025 www.zukunftskongress.de, der sich um das moderne und digitale Deutschland drehen wird, nicht mehr allzu weit entfernt ist, so dass ich mich besser an die Vorbereitung unseres Panels am 23. Juni

We're delighted to invite you to the 1st Responsible Software Engineering Workshop, taking place on Thursday, 26 June 2025 in beautiful Trondheim, Norway, as part of the FSE 2025 conference.
This workshop is your chance to explore cutting-edge ideas and practices for building ethical, sustainable ..

An evening that gave me pause: On the 7th of May, at the HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 in H1072, where decades ago I enjoyed calculus, algebra, computational theory etc., I was able to listen to the philosophical seminar on the crisis of liberalism v.hu-berlin.de?stat=show&vk..., learn more ...

After our panel on "Automated Software Testing for Sustainability and Resource Efficiency" conf.researchr.org/details/ast-..., the 2nd day of the 20th AST starts with the keynote by Tiziana Margaria on "Learning-Based Testing: The Ease, the Impact, the Future" conf.researchr.org/details/ast-....

The 20th Conference on the Automation of Software Testing #AST2025 just started with a keynote by @Andreas Zeller on personalized fuzzing: conf.researchr.org/details/ast-...

In less than two weeks, I will be attending #AST2025 on automated software testing conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2025 followed by #ICSE2025 on software engineering conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2025. AST will start with a great programme incl. two keynotes, a panel and many interesting papers. See you.

Ich freue mich sehr auf die Arbeit im Präsidium der @Gesellschaft für Informatik https://gi.de/ und auf die Zus.arbeit mit @Christine Regitz, den Präsiden, der GF @Daniel Krupka und @Cornelia Winter und den Mitarbeitenden und bin dankbar für das in mich gesetzte Vertrauen.