BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20220407T233055Z UID:37F8CFCE-7A2D-45D6-AD94-94C529524243 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20220324T190000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20220324T210000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM\n\nonline 7:00 PM\, Thursday\ , 24 March 2022\n\nHow to become a great software designer\n\nDaniel Jacks on\, MIT\n\nRegister in advance for this webinar at https://acm-org.zoom.u s/webinar/register/3316456450257/WN_BGsPxPCORhuXl-ktoW0Hng\n\nAfter regist ering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.\n\nWhy are some apps so much better than others\, an d some designers so much more successful? For the last decade or so\, I’ ve been trying to answer this question. My approach has been to study hund reds of popular apps\, identifying good and bad parts\, and then looking f or a way to codify this knowledge so that anyone can use it to become a be tter designer.\n\nIn this talk\, I’ll explain what I came up with: (1) a way to structure the functionality of an app into “concepts” (which a re essentially little behavioral protocols)\; (2) a composition strategy t hat lets you put concepts together without coupling them\; (3) criteria fo r good and bad concept design\; and (4) the beginnings of a catalog of reu sable concepts.\n\nMost of the examples and ideas will be drawn from my re cently published book\, Essence of Software (https://essenceofsoftware.com ).\n\nDaniel Jackson is Professor of Computer Science at MIT\, a MacVicar teaching fellow\, and Associate Director of the Computer Science and Artif icial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He was the lead designer of the All oy modeling language\, author of "Software Abstractions: Logic\, Language\ , and Analysis" (MIT Press\; second ed. 2012) and most recently of "Essenc e of Software" (https://essenceofsoftware.com). He was chair of the Nation al Academies’ study Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence ? (2003-2007)\, and served on the study Electronic Vehicle Controls and Un intended Acceleration (2010-2012). He received the 2016 ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for his research method for finding bugs in code and the 2017 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for "foundational contributions to software modeling\, the creation of the modeling language Alloy\, and the development of a widely used tool supporting model verification" and is a n ACM Fellow. He is also a photographer\; his book Portraits of Resilience (MIT Press\, 2017) addresses the campus epidemic of depression and anxiet y with a collection of portraits and stories.\n\nThis joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be online on ly due to the COVID-19 lockdown.\n\nUp-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer /. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk a nd informational emails about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mail man/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailing list.\n\nCo-sponsored by: gbc/acm\n\nSpeaker(s): Daniel Jackson\, MIT\, \n\nVirtual: https://ev ents.vtools.ieee.org/m/311233 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/311233 ORGANIZER:p.mager@computer.org SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How to become a great software designer URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/311233 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2>IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM</h2>\n< h4>online 7:00 PM\, Thursday\, 24 March 2022</h4>\n<h4>How to become a gre at software designer</h4>\n<h4>Daniel Jackson\, MIT</h4>\n<h4>Register in advance for this webinar at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/33164 56450257/WN_BGsPxPCORhuXl-ktoW0Hng</h4>\n<p>After registering\, you will r eceive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webin ar.</p>\n<p class="norm10">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Why are some apps so much bette r than others\, and some designers so much more successful? For the last d ecade or so\, I&rsquo\;ve been trying to answer this question. My approach has been to study hundreds of popular apps\, identifying good and bad par ts\, and then looking for a way to codify this knowledge so that anyone ca n use it to become a better designer.</p>\n<p>In this talk\, I&rsquo\;ll e xplain what I came up with: (1) a way to structure the functionality of an app into &ldquo\;concepts&rdquo\; (which are essentially little behaviora l protocols)\; (2) a composition strategy that lets you put concepts toget her without coupling them\; (3) criteria for good and bad concept design\; and (4) the beginnings of a catalog of reusable concepts.</p>\n<p>Most of the examples and ideas will be drawn from my recently published book\, Es sence of Software (https://essenceofsoftware.com).</p>\n<p>Daniel Jackson is Professor of Computer Science at MIT\, a MacVicar teaching fellow\, and Associate Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence La boratory (CSAIL). He was the lead designer of the Alloy modeling language\ , author of "Software Abstractions: Logic\, Language\, and Analysis" (MIT Press\; second ed. 2012) and most recently of "Essence of Software" (https ://essenceofsoftware.com). He was chair of the National Academies&rsquo\; study Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? (2003-2007)\, and served on the study Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceler ation (2010-2012). He received the 2016 ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for his research method for finding bugs in code and the 2017 ACM SIGSOFT Out standing Research Award for "foundational contributions to software modeli ng\, the creation of the modeling language Alloy\, and the development of a widely used tool supporting model verification" and is an ACM Fellow. He is also a photographer\; his book Portraits of Resilience (MIT Press\, 20 17) addresses the campus epidemic of depression and anxiety with a collect ion of portraits and stories.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="norm10">This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/A CM will be online only due to the COVID-19 lockdown.</p>\n<p>Up-to-date in formation about this and other talks is available online at https://ewh.ie ee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status info rmation about this talk and informational emails about future talks at htt ps://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mail ing list.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR