Featured in Five is a monthly section where we pose questions to a Computing Reviews featured reviewer. Here are the responses from our July featured reviewer, T.H. Tse.
Q) What is the most important thing that's happened in computing in the past 10 years?
A) Referring to the last 10-year period, software testing and debugging have remained the most important issues. We seldom teach such techniques explicitly in undergraduate computer science courses, but we expect all software developers to know them. My research partners and I have jumped on the bandwagon and developed various methodologies that have proven success and are well-accepted by other researchers and practitioners.
Referring to the last five years or so, generative artificial intelligence is obviously the most important thing in computing.
Q) If you weren't working in the computer science field, what would you be doing instead?
A) I have diversified interests. I might be working as a social worker advocating the equality of people with or without a disability. I might also be a graphic designer sustaining the excellent concepts in modernism.
Q) By the end of your career, where do you think computer science will have taken us? What are you working on that might contribute toward that?
A) I have already retired from my full professorship. I am currently an honorary professor at the same university. Having said that, I am still working toward promising methodologies in software testing and debugging.
Q) Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
A) My favorite historical figure is Bertrand Russell, who has laid down modern concepts in logic and philosophy of mathematics.
Q) What is your favorite type of music?
A) I like popular classical music such as Romance for Violin and Orchestra by Beethoven, the Jupiter Symphony by Mozart, and The Four Seasons by Vivaldi.
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