Capping off Day 2 of #ICER2022 with a banquet atop the beautiful Mont Bré:

Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs: Is this a real job? Or more like a PhD? Caught in short contracts No chance of stability Open your eyes Look up to PIs and see I'm just a postdoc I get no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go Stress is high Pay is low

Our #ICER2022 hybrid conference design was somewhat unique & it kind of worked. Hybrid > Physical + Virtual A look behind the scenes and some lessons learned: medium.com/luceresearchla… ACM ICER Conference Lugano USI Faculty of Informatics Software Institute

You removed it from the course knowing full well it would never return.

Le mépris du coach du PSG Christophe Galtier Et le long rire de Kylian Mbappé Quand LCI #toutestpol leur demande une réaction au patron des TGV qui leur propose un train privatisé plutôt qu’un jet privé pour faire Paris-Nantes. RDV demain, 11h, sur la 26 #Mbappe #Galtier #lti

📣 Join us tomorrow for a #seminar by Prof. Crista Lopes (UC Irvine) on "Exercises in Programming Style" 📅 10:30-11:30 Host: Prof. Matthias Hauswirth Software Institute @LuCEresearchlab Details ⬇️ inf.usi.ch/en/feeds/10380

#TABtain: Noun. A developer TABbing their way to a solution using GitHub Copilot.

I said goodbye to a patient a few years ago. She didn’t die, she just got old. I treat patients to age 21 and they move on. When they do, I joke, “well, I did my job! I kept you alive until adulthood!” With this kid, it was not a joke. 1/

Sad day. Beautiful writing. RIP Fred Brooks.

Demagification. The task of informatics teachers.

#K12CS #Teachers: Are you ready to take your learning/PD w/ @a2zk21cs to the next level⁉️ 🚨📢We are thrilled to unveil csa2z.com—chk out companion pages for each ch. w/ discussion Qs, resources & ideas to help you get more from this already gr8 book 🥳 #SIGCSE2023

📣 Are you enrolled in a (non-USI) Master's programme? Would you like to work on a research project with us & apply it towards your thesis? Our MaRS Scholarship programme supported by @HaslerStiftung is accepting applications for 2023! Projects, T&C ⬇️ inf.usi.ch/en/feeds/10506

Must see: Trevor Noah and Roger Federer's "train ride of a lifetime" through Switzerland youtu.be/5JK7vjVaIvo

Thanks to a didactics innovation grant we got to release the dozens of "Visual Problem Decomposition" == "Python Programming" activities we developed and used in years of CS teacher training: pytamaro.si.usi.ch #CSEd #STEM #Python #PyTamaro @USI

Any guess?

Vorschlag an Bundesamt für Statistik BFS und Alain Berset: Könnten Sie die von den Kantonen gelieferten Rohdaten und den Source Code zur Berechnung der Endresultate veröffentlichen? Wäre vorbildlich und gut für's Vertrauen.

A glimmer of hope. nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/…

From the field trip with the USI Faculty of Informatics students, exploring the three castles of #Bellinzona to gather ideas for the visual components to build for the "Program Your Own Castle" Hour of Code tutorial: pytamaro.si.usi.ch/hoc/castle

US election outcome: 94% to 6% — if the Swiss had to vote (42081 votes, non-representative poll on news web site)

Posting this here because, unlike that other outfit run by Mr. Musk, X should still allow free speech.