Prof. Washizaki joined SC2024, which was sponsored by IEEE-CS with ACM, to present awards

Prof. Washizaki joined SC2024, which was jointly sponsored by IEEE-CS and ACM, to present awards, including the ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award, the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Congratulations to all recipients, Dr. David Padua, Dr. Bill Tang, and Dr. Norm Jouppi. This year, SC2024 attracted around 18K attendees, a record-breaking number!

Prof. Washizaki congratulated IEEE-CS Past-President Nita for her exceptional leadership and unwavering commitment

Prof. Washizaki congratulated IEEE-CS Past-President Nita for her exceptional leadership and unwavering commitment to advancing the technology field and the global tech community by using the following AI-generated paper as well as AI-generated review comments (by AI Scientist provided by Sakana AI) at the IEEE-CS BoG meeting.

Review comments:

{
‘Decision’: ‘Reject’
‘Originality’: 2,
‘Quality’: 2,
‘Clarity’: 3,
‘Significance’: 4,
‘Ethical Concerns’: False,
‘Soundness’: 2,
‘Presentation’: 2,
‘Contribution’: 2,
‘Overall’: 3,
‘Confidence’: 4,

‘Summary’: “The paper reviews Nita Patel’s presidency at the IEEE Computer Society, focusing on her contributions to diversity, technological innovation, and educational advancement. It synthesizes existing literature but lacks original insights and empirical evidence to support its claims.”,

‘Strengths’: [‘Addresses significant topics such as diversity and technological innovation in professional organizations.’, “Highlights key initiatives and contributions made during Patel’s presidency.”, ‘Identifies knowledge gaps that could guide future research.’],

‘Weaknesses’: [‘Lacks original research or new findings; primarily summarizes existing literature.’, “Insufficient empirical evidence to support claims made about the impact of Patel’s initiatives.”, “Clarity and organization issues hinder the reader’s understanding, suggesting a need for better structure and flow.”],

‘Questions’: [“What empirical evidence supports the claims made regarding the effectiveness of Patel’s initiatives?”, ‘How does this literature review contribute to existing research on leadership in technical organizations?’],

‘Limitations’: [“The paper does not adequately analyze the long-term impact of Patel’s initiatives.”, ‘Lacks a critical perspective on the effectiveness of her leadership and initiatives.’],
}

Lab welcoming party 2024 Fall

Thanks to the party organizers, we had a great welcoming party with Prof. Ubayashi, Prof. Yoshioka, and Prof. Saito. Welcome, all new students! And surprisingly, lab members and students wished Prof. Washizaki a happy birthday! Let’s have a happy, exciting, healthy lab life together!

Future Advanced Testing Technology Workshop (FATTW 2024, AI/LLM and testing) at Makuhari, Japan was successfully over

Future Advanced Testing Technology Workshop (FATTW 2024, AI/LLM and testing) at Makuhari, Japan was successfully over! It attracted around 100 attendees. Thanks to all the supporters, distinguished speakers (Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Masashi Sugiyama, Fumio Machida, Hiroshi Maruyama, Shervin Shirmohammadi, San Murugesan, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Jianjun Zhao, Lei Ma, Daisuke Shimbara, Hussein Al Osman, Shogo Tokui, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Shaukat Ali and panel chairs Hironori Takeuchi) , and attendees; it was inspiring and incredible! Let’s keep connected, and see you soon next time!

Opening slide deck titled “IEEE Software Testing Technology Development Trend” at FATTW 2024 is available here.

AI-Pattern’24 co-located with IEEE ISSRE was successfully over!

Thanks to the guest speaker Dr. Qinghua (her talk was so comprehensive to grasp the landscape of Reliable AI, LLM and patterns, practices, governance and assessment) and paper authors, all organizers, supporters, and attendees, AI-Pattern’24: 1st International Workshop on Patterns and Practices of Reliable AI Engineering and Governance co-located with IEEE ISSRE was successfully over! The workshop attracted around 25-30 attendes at peak. The opening slides with the voting results during the discussion are available here. Thank you all, and see you next time!