Roberto Di Cosmo
An alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Roberto Di Cosmo was associate professor at Ecole Normale Suprieure in Paris, then full professor of Computer Science at University of Paris and is currently on leave at Inria , publishing over 20 international journals articles and 50 international conference articles in theoretical computing, functional and parallel programming, and software engineering.
After creating the Free Software thematic group of Systematic, and IRILL, a research structure on Open Source Software, he created and directs Software Heritage to build the universal archive of all the source code publicly available, in partnership with UNESCO.
Session
Open Source Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our technical and organisational knowledge, and this raises many questions: how to comply with the obligations of Open Source licenses? how to be sure that the source code of a key module we use will be still there when we need it in the future? do we really know what source code we are using, and where it comes from? how can we adress cybersecurity if we do not know? how do we share this information across the software supply chain?
Answering these questions and answering them well is quite a challenge.
In this presentation, you will discover Software Heritage, an open non-profit initiative, in partnership with Unesco, and supported by major IT players, and how the revolutionary infrastructure it is building changes the way we adress these issues.
With 8 billions unique source files from 120 million repositories, it is the largest archive of source code ever built.
You can already access and use this infrastructure.
We now invite you to help it grow, and take part in its unique undertaking.