Till Bay

Address
Till Bay
Comerge AG
Bubenbergstrasse 11
8045 Zürich

Contact
Till Bay
Phone: +41 43 501 38 20
Fax: +41 43 501 38 39
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This page: http://se.ethz.ch/people/bay

General Information

My name is Till Bay, from 2003-2008 I was research assistant at the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich. I am founder of Comerge AG and Oriact GmbH, together with Dr. Bernd Schoeller and Patrick Ruckstuhl. With the help of many others, I have created the Origo Software Development Platform and the windowzoo.com community art project.

Origo Software Development Platform

Developing software systems is a complex activity that involves numerous tasks that are critical for a successful release. Increasing size of software systems, software maintenance, versioning and distributed global development combined with ever growing expectations from users complicate development. Using a well designed software development platform one can automate and simplify considerable parts of the process. In my research I build and design the Origo Software Development Platform. By reviewing existing systems and factoring out commonalities I can propose a simple yet comprehensive software development platform that addresses the issues of the entire software development process. Project Origo »

Publications

2008

T. G. Bay: Hosting distributed software projects: concepts, framework, and the Origo experience
Thesis, ETH Zürich, Chair of Software Engineering, 2008. [PDF]
T. G. Bay, M. Oriol, B.Meyer: Release early and often: Developing Software with Origo
Technical Report 581, ETH Zürich, Chair of Software Engineering, 2008. [PDF]
T. G. Bay, M. Pedroni, B. Meyer: By students, for students: a production-quality multimedia library, JOT Jan/Feb, 2008 [PDF]

2007

T. G. Bay: Origo Overview
Work in progress, 2007. [MOV (22Mb)]
updated: October 2nd, 2007
T. G. Bay, M. Oriol, B.Meyer: Origo Roadmap
Technical Report 544, ETH Zürich, Chair of Software Engineering, 2007. [PDF]
M. Pedroni and T. G. Bay: Visualize and Open Up
International Journal for Informatics in Education, Volume 6, Issue1, 2007. [PDF] [LINK]
M. Pedroni, T. G. Bay, M. Oriol and A. Pedroni: Open Source Projects in Programming Courses
SIGCSE, 2007. [PDF]

2006

T. G. Bay, B. Schoeller and B. Meyer: Keynote: Open-Sourcing a Major Commercial Technology
At the Second International Conference on Open Source Systems, 2006. [PDF] [WWW]
M. Pedroni and T. G. Bay: Visualize and Open Up
Tenth Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for the Teaching and Learning of Object Oriented Conceptsof Object Oriented Concepts hosted by ECOOP, 2006. [PDF][BIB]
T. G. Bay, Patrick Eugster and Manuel Oriol: Generic Component Lookup
Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE), 2006. [PDF][BIB]
M. Zimmerli: Zürich Letzi - Entwicklungsszenario - SBB Areal
Plotter cut of railway-tracks. Architecture Diploma Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2006 [PDF]

2005

T. G. Bay: State of the art analysis of Software Development Platforms
Work in progress, 2005. [PDF][BIB]
version from: 01. December 2005
M. Pedroni and T. G. Bay: Einführung in die Objekt-Orientierte Programmierung
ETH-Leitprogramm, 2005. [PDF][BIB]
K. Pauls and T. G. Bay: Reuse Frequency as Metric for Dependency Resolver Selection
Component Deployment (CD),2005.[PDF][BIB]

2004

T. G. Bay and K. Pauls: Reuse Frequency as Metric for Component Assessment
Technical Report 464, ETH Zürich, Chair of Software Engineering, 2004. [PDF] [BIB]

T. G. Bay : Researchplan Component Certification [PDF]

Projects and Teaching

Student projects

I offer the following student projects on Origo both as semester thesis or master thesis:

Student projects I supervise(d)

Summer semester 2009
- Beat Herlig Origo (Master Thesis)
Summer semester 2008
- Michael Stämpfli Origo Plugins (Master Thesis)
- Marco Trudel Java and Flex to Eiffel Compiler (Master Thesis)
- Ueli Weiss Social Graph in Origo (Master Thesis)
- Christian Decker Origo UI improvements (Semester Thesis)
Winter semester 2007-2008
- Dominique Schneider Origo Web (Master Thesis)
- Dennis Rietmann Origo Plugins (Master Thesis)
- Marco Zietzling Origo Web (Master Thesis)
- Fabio Zuend Origo Web (Semester Thesis)
Summer semester 2007

Peter Wyss Origo Web (Master Thesis)
Rafael Bischof Origo EiffelStudio Integration (Master Thesis)
Patrick Ruckstuhl Origo Core (Master Thesis)
Beat Steiger EiffelMedia (Semester Thesis)
Stephan Classen Goanna (Semester Thesis)
Andrea Grössbauer Lookup (Semester thesis)
Beat Strasser JXTA for Eiffel (Master thesis)
Samuele Lucchini Single Sign-On for Origo (Master thesis)
Dmytro Podalyuk EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
Ramon Küpfer EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)

Summer semester 2006
- Lars Krapf L-System Fractal Demo for EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
- Beat Herlig Lookup (Semester thesis)
- Jann Röder Vision2 Carbon backend (Semester thesis)
- Ueli Peter Vision2 Carbon backend (Semester thesis)
- Roland Häusler Vision2 Carbon backend (Semester thesis)
- Daniel Furrer Vision2 Carbon backend (Semester thesis)
- Kaspar Rohrer EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
- Stefan Mori SMIL Editor for EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
- David Huber SMIL Editor for EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
- Urs Doenni EiffelMedia (Student project)
- Matthias Bühlmann EiffelMedia (Student project)
- Philipp Krähenbühl EiffelMedia (Student project)
- Dominik Käser EiffelMedia (Student project)
Winter semester 2005-2006
- Rafael Bischof EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
- Peter Wyss EiffelMedia (Semester thesis)
Summer semester 2005
- Lukas Naef: EiffelMedia Project Lead (Semester thesis)
- Yves Alter: EiffelMedia Multiplayer Networking API (Semester thesis)
- Stefan Daniel: EiffelMedia 3D Frontend for Traffic (Semester thesis)
- Urs Doenni: EiffelMedia Multiplayer Networking API (Semester thesis)
- Jonas Rutishauser: EiffelMedia Smpeg API (Semester thesis)
- Julian Tschannen: EiffelMedia Widget Toolkit (Semester thesis)
- Marco Senn: EiffelMedia Audio API (Semester thesis)
- Pascal Rota: EiffelMedia CD-ROM and Joystick API (Semester thesis)
- Martin Seiler: EiffelMedia Multiplayer Networking API (Semester thesis)
- Marco Stoeckli: EiffelMedia Audio API (Semester thesis)
- Robert Weiser: EiffelMedia Installer and Buildprocessing (Semester thesis)
- Ueli Weiss: EiffelMedia Collision Detection API (Semester thesis)
- Valentin Wuestenholz: EiffelMedia 3D Frontend for Traffic (Semester thesis)
- Benno Baumgartner: Eiffel to Java Compiler (Master thesis)
- Sibylle Aregger: Steps to automatic Component Certification (Master thesis)
Winter semester 2004-2005:
- Rolf Bruderer: Object-Oriented Framework for Teaching Introductory Programming (Master thesis)
- Camila Cavalcante Rodrigues: Component Certification project (Research Project)
- Samuele Milani: Component Assessment Server (Master thesis)
- Patrick Ruckstuhl: ESDL (Semester thesis)
Summer semester 2004:
- Samuele Milani: Component Server (Semester thesis)
- Yann Müller: ESDL - Sound API Extensions and Antialiasing (Semester thesis)
- Andri Toggenburger: Code crawler (Semester thesis)
Winter semester 2003-2004:
- Benno Baumgartner: ESDL - API Extensions (Semester thesis)

Courses

Winter semester 2008-2009: Software Verification
Summer semester 2008: Software Architecture and Open source software development Lab
Winter semester 2007-2008: Open sopurce software development Lab
Summer semester 2007: Software Architecture and Open source software development Lab
Winter semester 2006-2007: Open sopurce software development Lab
Summer semester 2006: Software Architecture and Techniques of Java Programming and Software Engineering Seminar
Winter semester 2005-2006: Distributed Systems and Algorythms and Datastructures at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
Summer semester 2005: Software Architecture
Winter semester 2004-2005: Introductory Programming and Trusted Components
Summer semester 2004: Programming in the large
Winter semester 2003-2004: Introductory Programming