Oscar Nierstrasz

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Oscar Marius Nierstrasz
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Nierstrasz in 2008
Born
Oscar Marius Nierstrasz

(1957-10-15) October 15, 1957 (age 67)
Laren, the Netherlands
CitizenshipCanada, Switzerland and Italy
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Known forObject-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Pharo by Example
Awards Dahl–Nygaard Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Programming languages, Object-oriented software design
Institutions University of Toronto, Université de Genève, University of Berne
Doctoral advisor D. Tsichritzis

Oscar Marius Nierstrasz (born October 15, 1957) is a professor at the Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne, and a specialist in software engineering and programming languages. He is active in the field of programming languages and mechanisms to support the flexible composition of high-level, component-based abstractions, tools and environments to support the understanding, analysis and transformation of software systems to more flexible, component-based designs, [1] secure software engineering, and requirement engineering to support stakeholders and developers to have moldable and clear requirements. He has led the Software Composition Group at the University of Berne since 1994 to date (December 2011). [2]

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Life

Nierstrasz was born in Laren, the Netherlands. [3] [ circular reference ] He lived there for three years and then his parents, Thomas Oscar Duyck (1930--) and Meta Maria van den Bos (1936-1988) moved to Canada. [4] He developed an early interest in Mathematics and Computer Science. He pursued his Bachelor studies in the Departments of Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics and Optimization [5] at the University of Waterloo in 1979. He enrolled for the master studies in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 1981. [6] There, he continued for his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. D. Tsichritzis. During his postgraduate work in the university, Nierstrasz worked on the `Message Flow Analysis'. He finished his Ph.D. in 1984 and then worked at the Forth Institute of Computer Science in Crete for one year. Since 1985, Nierstrasz has lived in Switzerland. He was a member of the Object System Group at the Center Universitaire d' Informatique [7] of the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1985-1994). He met there his wife, Angela Margiotta Nierstrasz. They married in May 1994. In late 1994, he moved to Bern, Switzerland to work as a professor.

Career

In late 1994, he joined the University of Berne as a professor and led the software composition group at the University of Berne from 1994 to December 2021. He has also served as a dean of Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne. During his career, he supervised 40 Ph.D. students and almost 100 bachelors and masters theses.

He had made various contributions to Software Engineering Research community:

His Erdos number is 3. Oscar Nierstrasz — David M. Jackson — E. Rodney Canfield — Paul Erdös

Nierstrasz won the Senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize in 2013.

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References

  1. ↑ Introduction to Oscar Nierstrasz as a keynote speaker at the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2005): Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oncv/oncv.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ Laren
  4. ↑ http://nierstrasz.org/
  5. ↑ "Combinatorics and Optimization". 19 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Our Department".
  7. ↑ "Centre Universitaire d'Informatique - Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI) - UNIGE". 11 October 2014.
  8. ↑ Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, and Oscar Nierstrasz. Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Square Bracket Associates, 2008,
  9. ↑ Andrew Black, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Damien Pollet, Damien Cassou, and Marcus Denker. Pharo by Example, Square Bracket Associates, 2009.
  10. ↑ Wiener, Richard (May 2010), "Farewell editorial", Journal of Object Technology , 9 (3): 5, doi: 10.5381/jot.2010.9.3.e1
  11. ↑ Nierstrasz, Oscar (January 2013), "Farewell editorial", Journal of Object Technology , 12 (1), doi:10.5381/jot.2013.12.1.e1
  12. ↑ Oscar Nierstrasz, Identify the Champion, In: Pattern Languages of Program Design 4, N. Harrison, B. Foote, H. Rohnert (Ed.), vol. 4, Addison Wesley, 2000, pp. 539-556, http://scg.unibe.ch/download/champion/
  13. ↑ Richard R. van de Stadt, CyberChair - An Online Submission and Reviewing System, or: A Program Chair's Best Friend
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