Look forward to these exciting keynotes at SEAMS 2025! - Jane Cleland-Huang: Cognitive Guardrails for on-the-fly Decision-Making in Next-Gen Drone Swarms - Bashar Nuseibeh: Software adaptation is easy, social adaptation is hard More info to come in: conf.researchr.org/info/seam…

If you’re interested in #kindComputing & #responsibleSoftwareEngineering, pls check out our paper: “Meta-modelling kindness” If you’re attending @modelsconf in Linz this week, why not pop by my presentation for a chat? #SoftwareForAKinderWorld [2/2] dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36403…

Cool postdoc opportunity to work on #kindComputing. If you are a software engineering researcher, with an interest in conducting multidisciplinary, societally-important research, do get in touch with Faeq. Application deadline 17th July 2024. linkedin.com/posts/activity-…

This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-israe… All by Israeli journalist @yuval_abraham based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies. Israel has developed an AI called "Lavender" to generate kill lists, with almost no human verification to double check the targets selected by the machine: only a a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” just to make sure the AI target is male. Moreover, the Israeli army "systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity". In fact Israel developed another automated system called “Where’s Daddy?” used "specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences" 🤮 One of the intelligence officers who spoke to Abraham is quoted in the article: “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.” In fact the article reveals a ratio, I think for the first time: "according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians... The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander." A ratio of 20 civilians killed for one target works out to about 95% civilian deaths. Please do read the whole article as it describes in details how the whole process works with the Lavender AI. It's industrialized extermination the likes of which we haven't seen since... you know when.

It has been 10 days since our "Introduction to Digital Humanism" textbook was published (free online) and has already been downloaded 56K times! Very exciting to see such interest! link.springer.com/book/10.10… #digitalHumanism #responsibleSoftwareEngineering #softwareForABetterWorld

Delighted that our new textbook on an #IntroductiontoDigitalHumanism published free online/open access A privilege to co-edit with @HannesWerthner @ErichPrem @carloghezzi @JeffKramer8 @AKStanger @Nida_Ruemelin Tks to @dmitri_katz for editorial support link.springer.com/book/10.10…

Delighted that our new textbook on an #IntroductiontoDigitalHumanism published free online/open access A privilege to co-edit with @HannesWerthner @ErichPrem @carloghezzi @JeffKramer8 @AKStanger @Nida_Ruemelin Tks to @dmitri_katz for editorial support link.springer.com/book/10.10…

New Fellow: Professor Bashar Nuseibeh is internationally renowned in software engineering. @OpenUniversity @LeroCentre buff.ly/48bTfCu #RAEngFellows

Great discussion at @ICSEconf 2023 #bookclub this morning. Lots of thoughts concerning #DiversityandInclusion in our #teaching and #research. #Book reviewed was Invisible Women by @CCriadoPerez.

#MRIAmonday ✍️ Bashar Nuseibeh MRIA, Chief Scientist at Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre @UL 💻 His research calls for a radical re-thinking of the discipline of software engineering, suggesting a perspective of ‘software without boundaries’. ➡️ bit.ly/MRSNuseibeh

First up @animal_computer a keynote from Prof Basher Nuseibeh discussing the importance of considering care & kindness when developing solutions as a software engineer