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ELVIS: Software Design Research Group

The ultimate goal of all computer science is the program. Designers, programmers and engineers must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a program, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts.

Welcome to the home page of Elvis, the software design research group in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand. Our work ranges from more technical research concerning the structure of software and tool support for development, to human-computer interaction and software development processes. We have experience and interests in a wide range of topics and applications in the OO paradigm, including programming languages, visualisation, design patterns, software reuse, frameworks, and agile methods, as well as in interface design and evaluation. We currently meet on a regular basis within special interest groups for Agile Software Development, Human Computer Interaction, and Programming Languages.

Latest News

Vacancy (x2) Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering

16 May 2012 - 14:23 in Administrative

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering (2 positions) (A093-12Q)

School of Engineering & Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering

Two opportunities exist to join one of New Zealand's top software engineering groups and to contribute to Victoria's young engineering programme.

More information here: http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/positiondetail.asp?p=6082

Dr Keith Cassell - PhD Defence

02 May 2012 - 14:37 in Achievement

On Friday 20 April 2012, KeithCassell successfully defended his PhD Thesis and is now Dr Keith Cassell. Congratulations to Keith!

Michael Homer PhD Proposal Seminar

12 Mar 2012 - 15:37 in Seminar

Michael Homer gave his PhD proposal seminar on Language Features for Expressiveness and Reuse.

Improving the performance of Firefox

06 Mar 2012 - 10:24 in Research

Victoria University student brainpower is helping the Firefox web browser go faster. Victoria's School of Engineering and Computer Science has partnered with Mozilla Firefox's Auckland office to carry out research projects, including some which will help improve the performance of the world's second-most popular browser. The collaboration was forged by Dr Alex Potanin, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, and internationally regarded New Zealander RobertOCallahan who set up and runs Mozilla Firefox's New Zealand arm. The Auckland Mozilla office concentrates on hardware acceleration or improvements that allow browsers to quickly load big, graphic-rich websites. Recent graduate JanLarres, who came to Victoria from Germany to Complete his Master's degree, has conducted the latest project with his year-long research effort focused on accurate testing of the Firefox browser's speed. "Speed," says Dr Potanin, "is becoming one of the fundamental things that defines a browser. Google Chrome, for example, has a team dedicated to making its browser go as fast as possible." See the full story: Vic students help speed up Firefox web browsing

Victoria University student brainpower is helping the Firefox web browser go faster. Victoria's School of Engineering and Computer Science has partnered with Mozilla Firefox's Auckland office to carry out research projects, including some which will help improve the performance of the world's second-most popular browser. The collaboration was forged by Dr Alex Potanin, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, and internationally regarded New Zealander RobertOCallahan who set up and runs Mozilla Firefox's New Zealand arm. The Auckland Mozilla office concentrates on hardware acceleration or improvements that allow browsers to quickly load big, graphic-rich websites. Recent graduate JanLarres, who came to Victoria from Germany to Complete his Master's degree, has conducted the latest project with his year-long research effort focused on accurate testing of the Firefox browser's speed. "Speed," says Dr Potanin, "is becoming one of the fundamental things that defines a browser. Google Chrome, for example, has a team dedicated to making its browser go as fast as possible."

See the full story: Vic students help speed up Firefox web browsing

Roman Klapaukh PhD Proposal Seminar

15 Feb 2012 - 13:32 in Seminar

Roman Klapaukh gave his PhD proposal seminar on 3D Gestures for Graphs.

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Home - Homepage
News - Blog news items from people in Elvis
People - People who are actively researching in Elvis
Research - Outlines of current projects and links to project work-in-progress pages.
Publications - Links to recent papers, articles, theses, reports, plus older papers.
Conferences - Links to conferences Elvis targets
Achievements - Academic achievements such as thesis completions, awards and grants, promotions
Courses - Software Engineering courses Elvis staff teach
SIGs - Information about our Special Interest Groups

Elvis Internal

Admin - Administrative procedures and links for people in Elvis
Resources - Useful links to resources or actual information that might be useful for people in Elvis
JoiningElvis - Instructions on how to join Elvis
ElvisMeetings - Information about our weekly meetings on Fridays
Events - Information about current and past events
Subversion - Instructions on how to use the Elvis Subversion repository
ViewCVS - Web based read-only version of the Elvis Subversion repository

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