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Viterbi Conversations in Ethics PodcastNavigating Ethics in Software Engineering with professor Nenad MedvidovicIn this episode of the Viterbi Conversations in Ethics, expert guest Professor Nenad Medvidovic discusses the ethical dimensions of software engineering. The conversation covers the evolution of ethical decision-making with AI and machine learning advancements, emphasizing user privacy and informed consent. It explores how software architecture impacts ethical implications and strategies for addressing AI biases. Topics also include open source software, intellectual property, environmental sustainability, and the ethical challenges of autonomous systems. The importance of a professional code of ethics, ethical software testing, and navigating global cultural differences are highlighted. This discussion offers insights into balancing technological progress with...2024-10-2641 min
IEBN PodcastThe Double-Edged Sword of AI in Software Engineering with Dr. Nenad (Neno) Medvidović of USCKey Takeaways:
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment that forced academics and researchers to rethink how they approach various tasks like homework assignments, programming, and writing.
While ChatGPT and other large language models can mimic human intelligence and be useful tools, they are fundamentally different from the human brain and not true artificial general intelligence (AGI) or artificial superintelligence.
The integration and debugging challenges posed by AI-generated code are significant "essential" problems in software engineering that have not been solved and will only become more complex as these tools are more widely adopted.
There...2024-08-2049 min
Immigrant Computer ScientistsNenad Medvidovic InterviewEpisode 2. Interview with Nenad Medvidovic, Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California. IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist. Leader in Software Engineering research community. Twice-Immigrant from Yugoslavia to US in high school and for Bachelors degree in 1980s.2021-09-011h 21
Immigrant Computer ScientistsFrom A Country That No Longer ExistsEpisode 1. Immigration stories from two Professors of Computer Science, and a Distinguished Technologist in Tech Industry. Featuring: Nenad Medvidovic (IEEE Fellow, Professor at USC), Jelena Mirkovic (Research Professor at USC), and Dejan Milojicic (IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs). All three were immigrants from Yugoslavia.For more information and episode guides visit: http://csimmigrant.org/ 2021-08-2657 min
DatacastEpisode 54: Information Retrieval Research, Data Science For Space Missions, and Open-Source Software with Chris MattmannTimestamps(2:55) Chris went over his experience studying Computer Science at the University of Southern California for undergraduate in the late 90s.(5:26) Chris recalled working as a Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in his sophomore year at USC.(9:54) Chris continued his education at USC with an M.S. and then a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Under the guidance of Dr. Nenad Medvidović, his Ph.D. thesis is called “Software Connectors For Highly-Distributed And Voluminous Data-Intensive Systems.” He proposed DISCO, a software architecture-based systematic framework for selecting software connectors based on eight key dimensions of data distribution.(16:28) Towar...2021-02-041h 22
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghanEpisode 06: Chris Mattmann - NASA's data scientistShow Notes: Apache Open Source Software Foundation (4:00) Apache projects: Tika (26:30), Nutch (15:10), Hadoop (36:05) Chris’ resume and the ‘web of activities’ (7:15)“It’s all got to relate to one another”-Chris (7:15) Tim Ferriss’ scratch your own itch“JPL” (8:05) NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryUSC ’systems perspective’ (8:25) ‘Architect software’ (8:35) ‘Big software systems’ (8:53) Search engines (9:43) Similarities between web search and science data search (11:56) Google’s take(12:15) Big changes in data and compute in Earth Science missions: Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO, and OCO-2) vs Quick Scatterometer (QuickSCAT). ‘Drawing inspiration from the grid’ section of this articleopen source (17:58) Ellis Horowitz (19:44) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) (19:50) What is a developer? (21:10) Jérôme Charron (22...2019-05-0450 min