计算机学院系列讲座大师讲堂第10期——Responsible design for the digital world: challenges for software engineering

报告题目(Title)： Responsible design for the digital world: challenges for software engineering

时间(Date & Time)：2026.3.31; 15:00-17:00

地点(Location)：北京大学英杰交流中心月光厅

主讲人(Speaker)：Carlo Ghezzi

邀请人(Host)：金芝 刘譞哲

报告摘要(Abstract)：

Digital technologies revolutionized the world in which we all live. They generated a new world that seamlessly integrates the physical sphere and humans with the cyber sphere. Software is the defining technology of the new world: it manages and controls this integration. Through software, humans have been able to automate tasks that enact fixed and well-defined functionalities.  The advent of AI is producing a further, dramatic paradigm shift. Through software we can/will create and populate the world with artificial entities that have agency: they can learn, adapt, and evolve autonomously, even without human intervention.

The talk revolves around this question: Is software engineering as a discipline up to the responsibilities that the crucial role of software in the world demands? By and large, despite their profound impact on humans and society, software systems are conceived and engineered disregarding human and social concerns. This may threaten human and socially sustainable innovation. We argue that digital innovation should be grounded on the principles of digital humanism, to make sure that innovation serves humans and society, and not the other way around. This requires radical changes that challenge research, practice, and education in software engineering. The talk argues for the need for a collective effort to re-think the software engineering discipline, define a possible roadmap, and prioritize actions. It also digs into the notions of responsible design and ethics that are crucial in re-thinking software engineering.

主讲人简介(Bio)：

Carlo Ghezzi is an Emeritus Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he has been active for more than 50 years as a researcher, faculty member, and educator. Among other roles, he has been founding Chair of Software Engineering, Department Chair, Member of the Academic Senate, Vice-Rector for Research, Chair of the Ethical Committee. He holds an Honorary Doctor Degree from the Technical University of Vienna.

He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, member of Academia Europaea, member of the Italian academy Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. He has been awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Education Award, the Leloir Prize by the Government of Argentina for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation. He has been on the advisory board of several international research programs and institutions in Europe, China, Japan, and the USA. He has been President of Informatics Europe, the association of computer science departments and research laboratories in Europe.

Carlo Ghezzi has been Program Co-Chair and General chair of several prestigious conferences (including the two flagship conferences on Software Engineering, ICSE and ESEC) and member of the program committee of many international conferences.  He has been Editor in Chief of the ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology, Associate Editor of Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Science of Computer Programming.

Ghezzi’s research has been focusing on software engineering and programming languages.  He co-authored over 200 papers and 15 books, and coordinated several national and international research projects. He was awarded an Advanced Grant from the ERC (European Research Council). He is currently a Steering Committee member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (https://caiml.org/dighum/).

https://dblp.org/pid/g/CarloGhezzi.html

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y8BLBGcAAAAJ&hl=en

欢迎关注计算机学院微信公众号，了解更多讲座信息！

北京大学计算机学院