Introduction Room: 53/R-044

Green Software Engineering

• Michael Philip Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB))

Room: 53/R-044 *Sustainability and software engineering are often treated as separate concerns. One often focuses on energy, carbon, and environmental limits. The other focuses on code, systems, longevity, reproducibility, and delivery. This talk suggests the link runs deeper. Both fields face similar pressures. Demand rises. Resources are finite. Complexity grows. Hidden costs accumulate. I draw on work in network systems, media, broadcasting, open source, mentoring, platform-scale systems, and research computing. Better software engineering is not merely adjacent to sustainability - I argue they are symbiotic, linked through a common concept of software entropy. Through concrete projects, practical examples, the session explores and suggests how to build systems that scale better and waste less.*