Kärnten
Originally, I am from Carinthia (Kärnten), Austria, a place with high mountains and more than 1.200 crystal-clear blue lakes of drinking water quality. Zurich, my new hometown, is quite similar to Carinthia. Still, my favorite city in Europe is Vienna with its breathtaking architecture, the Viennese waltz, and its food and coffee culture. I lived there for almost 18 years.
Short bio
Harald C. Gall received the MSc and PhD (Dr. techn.) degrees in informatics from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He is a professor of software engineering in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to that, he was an associate professor in the Distributed Systems Group at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
His research interests include software engineering and software analysis, focusing on software evolution, software quality, software architecture, collaborative software engineering, and service-centric software systems.
He is probably best known for his work on software evolution analysis and mining software archives. Since 1997 he has worked on devising ways in which mining these repositories can help to better understand software development, to devise predictions about quality attributes, and to exploit this knowledge in software analysis tools such as Evolizer.
In 2005, he was the program chair of ESEC-FSE, the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC), and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). In 2006 and 2007 he co-chaired MSR, the International Workshop and now Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, the major forum for software evolution analysis. He will be program co-chair of ICSE 2011, the International Conference on Software Engineering, to be held on the tropical island of Oahu in Hawaii.
Since 2010 he is an Associate Editor of IEEE's Transactions on Software Engineering.
He is president of CHOOSE, the Swiss SIG for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments, a member of ACM, IEEE, SI-SE, and OCG.
Skiing, Hiking & Biking
My favourite resorts for skiing, hiking, and biking are:
- St. Moritz
- Val Gardena
- Nauders am Reschenpass in Tirol, Haus Arnika
- Skiarena Nassfeld in Kärnten
- Koralpe in Kärnten
- More Swiss resorts under investigation ;-)
Sports challenges
Sometimes, I like to participate in challenges such as:
Further interesting links
- Gedichte von Erich Fried
- Alt-St.Pauler
- Jazz on the Internet
Print
