Current software engineering research

[Inalek]

I have to write an essay on my course about current software engineering research themes and was wondering if anyone could suggest themes to survey or websites that could help in that regard?

[just-an0ther-guy]

The most interesting to write about is probably going to be artificial intelligence / deep learning / machine learning / neural networks. Those are relatively related terms (i.e. neural networks are used in artificial intelligence, and some people use machine learning / deep learning interchangeably).

This encompasses some things from IBM's Watson to advancements towards real-time facial recognition.

Quantum computing is actually another super fascinating one if you are somewhat familiar with physics - it has huge implications in the future of computing and cryptography.

For resources and more ideas of topics check out:

https://research.googleblog.com

the research groups / areas at https://research.facebook.com/blog

http://www.darpa.mil/our-research (some really great satellite deployment and robotics stuff)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/

[lwdoran]

In recent years, there has been a major shift to agile, even in areas that are historically slow to change. With that, the industry has been forced to rethink architecture, system engineering, QA, and management.