Chair of Software Engineering

Bertrand Meyer

Professor of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich: Chair of Software Engineering.
Chief Technology Officer, Eiffel Software.
Professor (adjunct) & head of Software Engineering Laboratory at ITMO, Saint Petersburg.

Blogger on software engineering & other topics. Director of annual LASER software engineering summer school (this year's edition is the 10th, with the them Software for the Cloud and Big Data). General chair of ESEC/FSE 2013 (European Software Engineering Conference / Foundations of Software Engineering).

Some books: Touch of Class: Learning to Program Well, Using Objects & Contracts (derived from the introductory programming course at ETH); Object-Oriented Software Construction, second edition.

Maintainer of gallery of computer scientists.

See annotated bibliography: by date or by kind.

Our work covers most areas of software engineering, with Eiffel & Design by Contract as the unifying thread. Main topics:

Concurrent programming: building concurrent applications simply & safely through the SCOOP extension to Eiffel. Our concurrency research is supported by an Advanced Investigator Grant of the ERC (2.5 M Euros, 2012-2017).

Program verification: on the basis of Eiffel's Design by Contract & the EiffelStudio IDE, buiding an environment allowing "Verification As a Matter Of Course".

Tool & method support for distributed development.

Programming education: novel pedagogical approaches.

Languages & methodology: new programming language constructs, software process, agile methods.

Empirical software engineering.

O-O persistence.

Software engineering for robotics.

The ETH introductory programming course uses an inverted curriculum approach supported by the Touch of Class textbook. Taught in English 2004-2009, German since 2010.

The course project in the Distributed Software Engineering Laboratory brings together students from ETH and many universities around the world, who build a system collaboratively. We welcome universities interested in joining.

New in Fall 2013: Robotics Programming Laboratory, open to CS & mechanical engineering students.

Other graduate & undergraduate courses: Software Verification; Concepts of Concurrent Computation; programming language courses (Eiffel in Depth, Java & C# in Depth); Software Architecture; Open-Source EiffelStudio Laboratory; independent-research courses. See course page.

Education: École Polytechnique, Paris, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, École Nat. Sup. Télécom., Paris, DEA Univ. P & M Curie, MA in Russian from Sorbonne (Paris IV), Dr. Sc. from Univ. of Nancy.

CV: Électricité de France 1974-1983; Univ. of California Santa Barbara 1983-1985; Eiffel Software, Santa Barbara since 1985 (president until 2001, then CTO); ETH Zurich since Oct. 2001 (department chair 2004-2006).

Other positions: CEO of Société des Outils du Logiciel 1986-1990; adjunct professor, Monash Univ., Melbourne 1998-2003; chairman of TOOLS conferences 1988-2012 (after 50 conferences we declared The Triumph of Objects and closed the series).

Awards: Jolt Award (for Object-Oriented Software Construction); Dahl-Nygaard prize; honorary doctorate, ITMO; ACM Software System Award; ACM Fellow; IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award; ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.
Trivia: Citeseer lists Object-Oriented Software Construction as the 65th most cited publication in computer science; Reusability: The Case for Object-Oriented Design appears in the list of the most influential papers published by IEEE Software in 25 years.

Memberships: Académie des Technologies, Academia Europaea, IFIP WG2.3, boards of Informatics Europe & ACM Europe. Earlier: IFIP TC2 (Switzerland representative 2004-2011, chair of committee 2009-2011); board of IMAG, Grenoble 2005-2008; scientific board of U. Paris VI (P & M Curie) 2008-2012; IEEE 60th Anniversary Award committee; ACM nominating committee 2007-2008. Played an important role in creation of: Colloque de Génie Logiciel (French software engineering conference); European Software Engineering Conference (first steering committee chair); TSI (Technology and Science of Informatics, first editor-in-chief); Journal of Object Technology (publisher 2002-2010); Informatics Europe (first president 2006-2011).

Mailing address Dept. of Computer Science CH-8092 ETH-Zentrum Zürich, Switzerland

Physical address RZ-Gebäude, Raum J22 Clausiusstrasse 59 Zürich (Kreis 6)

Other Phone: +41/44-632-0410 Fax: +41/44-632-1435 Email: click here

Secretary Claudia Günthart RZ-J7 Phone +41/44-632-8346

Winter views from our floor (click for full views):
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