Software and Software Engineers

Speaker:        Dr. Minsuk LEE
                Dean
                NHN NEXT

Title:          "Software and Software Engineers"

Date:           Monday, 20 October 2014

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26) HKUST

Abstract:

Software is everywhere. Software is everything. Then, what we have to do
as software engineers? And how? Throughout the human history, we are very
luckily selected to experience the most dramatic changes in personal life
and social relations, even the changes in the political/global situations.
The computer and the internet are in the middle of the changes.

Key role of software has been to increase productivity of existing
business processes for a long time. Under the role, the value of the
software is proportional to the complexity of the business logic, i.e.,
the time to create the software (aka, the software developers' labor
time).

As more and more people are connected thru the network, the roles of
software are being changed. The new roles are to enable people to share
their story and idea, feel sympathy, find chances, be encouraged, and get
vicarious thrill or satisfaction. Now, software creates value by itself
and the value is enormous. Then, what we have to do? And how?

As the value creators, we need to understand people in the sense of
diversity, and the environment around the people in the sense of
evolvement. And more importantly we should be ready to change the history.
Let me talk in some detail.


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Biography:

Dr. Minsuk LEE  is currently the Dean of NHN NEXT. NHN NEXT is an
institute for college level software education fully supported by Naver
corporation. NAVER Corporation is Korea's premier internet company,
operating the nation's top search portal 'Naver' www.naver.com.

He obtained his Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 1995. After that,
he was the Professor of Computer Engineering Department for 19 years until
August 2013 in Hansung University, Seoul, Korea. His primary research and
development has focused on the embedded system area. He has worked for
tens of companies to help them to build good hardware and software
architectures and to use better practices for developing their products.

In 1999, he and his colleagues founded PalmPalm Technology Inc. As the
CTO, he had developed Linux smartphones with major global companies with a
team of 50+ engineers. He has worked for the human resource development
working group of North East Asia Open Source Software Promotion Forum. As
an open source software evangelist, he is mentoring young developers and
giving talks to communities. For college level engineering education, he
is working as a program evaluator for ABEEK (Accreditation Board for
Engineering Education of Korea).