INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

Painel at CBSOFT 2011

Prof. Manoel Mendonça from UFBA and INES was the mediator of this year’s CBSOFT Panel. The panel theme was “Software Theory and Practice”, but it focused on the impact of Brazilian research abroad was as well as on the gap between academic research and industry practice. The panelists were as follows: Hans Dieter Rombach (University of Kaiserslautern & Fraunhofer IESE, Germany); John Harrison (Intel Corporation, USA); José Luiz Fiadeiro (University of Leicester, UK); Joseph W. Yoder (The Refactory, Inc., USA); Michele Lanza (University of Lugano, Switzerland); Paulo Merson (SEI, USA, Ikaru Projects & TCU, Brazil). Together they discussed issues such as:

Did the Brazilian Software Research reach out of our borders?

What contributions do you consider (and know of) that the Brazilian Software Community made to the international scene?

What are opportunities to the Brazilian Software Community in current international R&D scene?

How big is the gap (or chasm) between research (especially in the academia) and industry practice in your area?

Is this gap being reduced? How this gap can be reduced?

How the Brazilian research community and industry can best contribute to this effort?