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Does your company have research projects for computer science students?
We are looking for innovative companies, in the Netherlands, with data-driven teams involved in security, AI or other research that are willing to provide a business problem to solve and an in-house supervisor. In return the companies will get a small team (2-3 third year computer science students) that will apply state of the art…
Pavlo Burda
Is COBOL futureproof? COBOL in 2024
COBOL is the miracle dinosaur of computer programming languages: It is very old and it should have been replaced by other languages, but somehow it still survives. This causes problems for companies, since many COBOL programmers are retired or will retire in the next decades, leaving companies without anyone to maintain some of the most…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
VU university business track research projects
The Vrije Universiteit Business Track is a novel way for third year Computer Science students to complete their thesis. Instead of working individually on a purely academic problem, in this track they will work in small groups on a real business problem at a real company. We are looking for eight innovative companies with a…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Staying up to date with python – research survey
Python is one of the most used programming languages: thousands of developers use the language and its frameworks of libraries for new IT systems. The language itself and the various libraries and frameworks are frequently updated and this causes legacy issues: Systems must be changed to work with the latest frameworks,or become vulnerable to security…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Measuring project success: the fulfilment rate of crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter
van Otterloo, S. 2022. Measuring project success: the fulfilment rate of crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter, Computers and Society Research Journal (2022). Email: sieuwert@ictinstitute.nl DOI: https://doi.org/10.54822/SVLM1832 Abstract Crowdfunding through platforms like Kickstarter is a common way to finance development projects for innovative products. These projects have a risk of failure that is not always communicated clearly…
Sieuwert van Otterloo