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Software Engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

IT Security , workplaces = Athens University of Economics and Business

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Sophia Drossopoulou Sophia Drossopoulou ( el, Σοφία Δροσοπούλου) is a computer scientist, currently working at Imperial College London, where she is Professor in Programming Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. ...

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Code Reading ''Code Reading'' ({{ISBN, 0-201-79940-5) is a 2003 software development book written by Diomidis Spinellis. The book is directed to programmers who want to improve their code reading abilities. It discusses specific techniques for reading code ...

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academic and author of the books ''

'', ''Code Quality'', ''Beautiful Architecture'' (co-author) and ''Effective Debugging''.

Education

Spinellis holds a

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degree in

and a

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both from

. His PhD was supervised by Susan Eisenbach and

Career and research

He is a

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at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the ''

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'' editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade column. Since 2014, he is also

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of ''IEEE Software''. Spinellis is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest in 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1995. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative

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diagram generator, the bib2xhtml

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converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with

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programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and

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browser, the socketpipe fast inter-process communication plumbing utility and directed graph shell the

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Unix shell for big data and

stream processing In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views data streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and ou ...

pipelines. In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis claimed that "red links" (a

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slang for

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s that lead to non-existing pages) is what drives Wikipedia growth. On 5 November 2009 he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance.Palaiologos, Yiannis (2015) ''The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis'', Portobello Books Ltd, In October 2011, he resigned citing personal reasons. On 20 March 2015 he was elected President of Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS). GFOSS is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 36 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. The main goal of GFOSS is to promote Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece. Spinellis uses

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to teach software engineering to his students. “programming proficiency on its own is neither representative of the skills that the marketplace requires from computing graduates, nor does it offer the strong vocational qualifications it once did”

References

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