NSERC CREATE Graduate Specialization in Ultra-large scale Software Systems

庆祝40年来的认证，计算的女王学院是国际公认的软件研究和教育，是家庭对NSERC RIM工业研究椅子在软件工程超大规模软件（ULSS）系统。该学院是安大略省金斯顿地区一个更大的软件研究社区的一部分，包括与皇后学院和加拿大皇家军事学院（RMCC）的电气和计算机工程系（ECE）的紧密联系。学校还在全球范围内关注ULSS开发的爆炸性国际增长，经常有来自世界各地的合作访客，其中包括弗劳恩霍夫研究所（德国），布鲁诺凯斯勒基金会（意大利）和软件工程研究所（美国）。 NSERC CREATE超大规模软件系统研究生专业化（NSERC CREATE in ULSS）将建立在这种专业知识的基础上，其长期目标是建立一个可持续的加拿大合作研究和教育解决方案，以应对ULSS系统架构和使用方面的独特挑战。这些系统处理全球数百万人的金融、医疗和网络连接数据。他们必须尽量减少或消除漏洞，以保持加拿大和世界所要求的服务水平。ULSS中断可以使整个经济陷入停顿。 为了满足工业界和学术界当前和可预见的需求，ULSS中的NSERC CREATE将培养80多名高素质的人才，包括博士后研究员，博士，硕士和本科生，他们将学习ULSS的专业方法和先进的设计理念。此外，与ULSS相关的专业发展技能和培训过渡流将与ULSS的核心研究生计算机科学教育相结合。目前在加拿大或世界其他地方没有这样的研究生课程，尽管ULSS的重要性日益增加，并且对ULSS所带来的独特的新问题的专家的需求也越来越大。

Celebrating 40 years since accreditation, the Queen's School of Computing is internationally recognized for software research and education and is home to the NSERC RIM Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale Software (ULSS) Systems. The School is part of a larger software research community in the Kingston, ON area, including strong ties with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen's and at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC). The School also has a global focus on the explosive international growth in ULSS development with frequent collaborative visitors from around the world, including, among others, the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) and the Software Engineering Institute (USA). The NSERC CREATE Graduate Specialization in Ultra-large-scale Software Systems (NSERC CREATE in ULSS) will be built on this expertise with the long-term goal of establishing a sustainable Canadian collaborative research and education solution for the unique challenges in the architecture and use of ULSS systems. These systems process the financial, healthcare and network connections data of millions of people worldwide. They must minimize or eliminate vulnerabilities to maintain the level of service demanded by Canada and the world. ULSS outages can bring whole economies to a halt. To address the current and foreseeable demand in both industry and academia, the NSERC CREATE in ULSS will train over 80 highly qualified personnel, including postdoctoral fellows, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students in the specialized methods and advanced design concepts of ULSS. As well, professional development skills and training transition streams relevant to ULSS will be integrated with a core graduate computer science education in ULSS. No such graduate program is currently offered in Canada or elsewhere in the world, despite the growing importance of ULSS and the demand for experts trained in the unique set of new problems that ULSS poses.