The workshop will be held on Friday Mai 30th, in two sessions: 10:30-11:15 and 11:15-13:00.
Keynote: Software durability (is software engineering sustainable?)
Abstract: Durability is the ability of something to remain functional without requiring excessive maintenance or repair. But how durable is our software today? Not very—because the real cost of software lies in maintaining it. Dijkstra wrote in 1988 that if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”. Despite this, we continue to generate more and more code, especially now with AI capable of writing it for us. This talk exhibits the link between software durability and sustainability, and explores practical ways to make software engineering more sustainable and durable.
Speaker biography: Sébastien Rumley is an Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), affiliated with the iCoSys institute. Prof. Rumley earned his M.S and PhD from EPFL in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Following his academic achievements, he joined the Lightwave Research Laboratory at Columbia University, New York, where he remained until 2018. After gaining valuable industry experience, Prof. Rumley assumed the role of Associate Professor of Software Engineering in 2021. His extensive research background encompasses optics, optical networking, and computer architecture. He is widely recognized as an expert in high-performance optical interconnects. Prof. Rumley’s current areas of interest include computing infrastructure (both cloud and physical), energy efficiency and sustainability in computing and IA, and integration of IA within SMEs. With over 80 publications to his name, he has received multiple awards such as the Best Paper Award at the SuperComputing conference in 2016 and the Hans Meurer Award (Best Paper award of the ISC-HPC conference) in 2018.
Sessions program
Session 1 (10:30-11:15)
- 10:30-10:50 Keynote (see above)
- 10:50-11:00 Thibault Halter, Maxime Peralta, Quick and Accurate Methodology of Simplified Life Cycle Assessment for Printed Circuit Boards Ecodesign
- 11:00-11:10 Rachel Neveu, Jean Schoch, Gurvan Jodin, Sara Bretin, Florence Razan, Reference Life Cycle Assessment of Smart Insoles with Piezoresistive Sensors for Motion Analysis
- 11:10-11:20 Jean Schoch, Rachel Neveu, Sara Bretin, Gurvan Jodin, Florence Geneste, Florence Razan, Life Cycle Assessment of an ultramicroelectrode array sensor for trace metal measurement in water, a cradle-to-gate approach
- 11:20-11:45 Panel with the speakers
Session 2 (11:45-13:00)
- 11:45-12:00 Loïc Guibert, Sébastien Reynaud, Olivier Weppe, Kristjon Ciko, Michael Welzl, Sébastien Rumley, TRAFFIC: Testbed foR Assessing energy eFFiciency In throughput Computing
- 12:00-12:15 Benjamin Chedotel, Thibaut Marty, François Berry, Maxime Pelcat, Methodological Challenges in Conducting a Screening Life Cycle Assessment of Dense Electronic Devices: The Case of Smartphones
- 12:15-12:30 Olivier Weppe, Thibaut Marty, Sébastien Toussaint, Nicolas Brusselmans, Jean-Christophe Prévotet, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Maxime Pelcat, Embodied Carbon Footprint of 3D NAND Memories
- 12:30-12:55 Panel with the speakers
- 12:55-13:00 Wrap-up and conclusions – Thibaut Marty