The Institute of Software Engineering and Technology (ITIS, or ITIS Software) is a unit of the University of Malaga dedicated to scientific and technical research [L1]. The main objective of ITIS is to contribute to the development and application of software technologies through research, innovation, training, and technology transfer. Due to the transversal characteristics of software, the Institute is an interdisciplinary center in which specialists in different technological areas and application domains work together to advance these technologies. ITIS is oriented towards the foundations, tools, and applications of Software Technologies and Software Engineering for industry and society, with a special focus on five main areas: Automated Software Engineering, Data Science and Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Smart Networks and Services, and Applications of Software Technologies and Software Engineering. The working language at the Institute is English.

It is with great sadness that the Editorial Board of ERCIM News marks the passing of our esteemed colleague and friend Harry Rudin in October 2022.

In the presence of Ministers Sylvie Retailleau and Robbert Dijkgraaf, Inria and CWI signed an agreement to extend their cooperation in the fields of Quantum Computing, Human interaction, Energy, Cryptography, Digital Health, Machine Learning and Software Engineering. New in this collaboration is the creation of European joint research teams. CWI and Inria, both founding members of ERCIM, have already collaborated successfully over the past decades and have come to know each other as reliable research partners. Both institutes have an excellent scientific reputation. By strengthening their cooperation through a partnership agreement, both parties join forces to support their research on a European scale and thus achieve important scientific results. This intensified collaboration will include a joint research and innovation agenda to strengthen networking, external partnership opportunities and funding. Scientific cooperation will be strengthened by creating joint projects as well as joint research teams.

CWI spin-off company DuckDB Labs helped create startup MotherDuck, which aims to connect DuckDB to the cloud and which raised $47.5 million. The open-source DuckDB system was launched in 2019 by Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt from the Database Architectures group of CWI. They designed and implemented an innovative lightweight database system that manages and analyzes large amounts of data in a highly efficient way, using state-of-the-art techniques, including CWI inventions such as vectorized query processing, and also introduced new techniques.

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik is accepting proposals for scientific seminars/workshops in all areas of computer science, in particular also in connection with other fields.