Abstract: The nature of software engineering is changing. Software is now every ware so it is time we acknowledged our role in observing and controlling the world around us. Now that the age of brackets matching is over (thanks to tools like e.g. Github copilot), the next generation of software engineers will spend more time exploring the effects of software and less time on, internally, how to achieve those effects. That next generation can decide to be part of a problem (of untested software, potentially hurting people in the world around us) or part of the solution (of trusted and tested software that society uses to better explore, understand, and control the world around us). What kind of software engineer do you want to be?

Bio: Tim Menzies (IEEE Fellow, Ph.D., UNSW, 1995) is a full Professor in CS at North Carolina State University where he teaches software engineering, automated software engineering, and foundations of software science. He is the directory of the RAISE lab (real world AI for SE) and the author of over 280 publications (refereed). In his career, he has supervised 20 Ph.D. students, and has been a lead researcher on projects for NSF, NIJ, DoD, NASA, USDA (total funding of $13+ million) as well as joint research work with private companies. Prof. Menzies is the editor-in-chief of the Automated Software Engineering journal and associate editor of TSE (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering) and other leading SE journals.

Full prof, ex-nurse,rocketman,taxi-driver,journalist (it all made sense at the time).