42年目を迎える我が国随一の品質の調査研究、実践、人材育成の場である日科技連ソフトウェア品質管理研究会 SQiP、新年度の募集が始まりました（運営委員会委員長: 鷲崎教授）。年間を通じた深い取り組みと仲間、充実の特別講義（平鍋氏、松尾谷氏、徳氏、井斧氏、竹之内氏、小池氏）。ぜひご参加ください！

Shunsuke Mori, Kohei Nishio, Taku Inagawa, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, “Toward Evidence-Based Architectural Decision Making over Fragmented Knowledge,” 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Poster Track, pp. 1-4, 2026.

Thanks to all organizers, volunteers, authors, and attendees, we are having a great pattern conference: AsianPLoP 2026 in beautiful Yokohama! This year, we have a record-breaking number of participants, around 90!

12 students successfully graduated. Congrats on your graduation! Rie, Ayana, Takuma, and Mai received Dept. Awards. Ryo received Dean’s Award. Congrats!

IEEE Computer Society has started a new certification program – Certified Software Professional Level 1, based on the SWEBOK Guide V4.0a. It is designed for those in the early stages of their software engineering career.

The IEEE Computer Society has started to call for nominations for Members of the Board of Governors, Vice President, and President-Elect – leadership roles that guide the global activities of the IEEE Computer Society, one of the world’s largest professional computing organizations. Nominations are due no later than Monday, 6 April 2026 at 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)/21:00 UTC. https://www.computer.org/volunteering/nomination-election/nominations

The Board of Governors brings together leaders from around the world who are committed to transformative and ethical progress in computing – particularly in addressing complex challenges such as sustainability and human–agentic AI collaboration. The Computer Society is a place where you can turn your ideas into action and help shape the future of computing. I encourage you to consider nominating yourself for the Board of Governors, Vice President, or President-Elect positions and to join us in making a meaningful global impact.

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Hironori Washizaki, “Global (Gen)AI Adoption,” Webinar on AI Adoption, Henry George School Of Social in NYC, March 2026.

西尾 光平, 森 俊介, 鷲崎 弘宜, 鵜林 尚靖, “LLM/VLM Multi-Agent システムのエージェント内部構成パターン”, 12th Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices (AsianPLoP 2026), pp. 1-10, Yokohama, Japan, March 27-30, 2026.

We had an exciting lab winter camp at a Japanese winter resort area to conduct team-based project reports and discussions, as well as skiing/snowboarding and excursions, and fun!

Back-to-back with the NII Shonan Meeting, we organized AI Patterns Tokyo 2026: Seminar on Agentic and Responsible AI and Patterns in the vibrant Shibuya district of Tokyo, sponsored by the Waseda Smart SE Program and Hitachi, Ltd. With distinguished speakers from the Shonan Meeting alongside experts from Hitachi, the seminar offered a comprehensive perspective on AI Patterns and related topics, while also exploring future directions of agentic and responsible AI. We were delighted to welcome many participants from the Japanese industry and academia, leading to engaging discussions and valuable networking opportunities. The event concluded with a memorable reception for the speakers at Shibuya Sky, Japan’s premier observatory, where we enjoyed a breathtaking nighttime view of Tokyo!
Catia Trubiani, Judith Michael, Cesare Pautasso, Marija Slavkovik, Kyoko Yoshimura, Hideto Ogawa, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson, Rick Kazman, Henry Muccini, Xiaoning Du, Joseph Yoder, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu, Shaukat Ali Shinpei Hayashi Takashi Kobayashi Foutse Khomh