Why should computer scientists learn and think about sustainability?

My interview during the excellent HiPEAC ACACES summer school this year. Why should computer scientists and engineers study sustainability? What are the most important topics to investigate in this field? How can we reconcile the push for ever more computing with the fact that there are finite planetary resources? And what can we do as individuals and collectively to push for a sustainable future?

Best paper award for Wasted Energy?

Absolutely delighted to find that our Pervasive Computing paper: Christian Remy, Adam Tyler, Paul Smith, Oliver Bates, Adrian Friday, “Wasted Energy? Illuminating Energy Data With Ontologies,” in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 27-37, April-June 2024, just won a ‘best paper’ award.  The paper deals with all the non-energy data (context) you need to make sense of and explore time-series energy data, and proposes an approach for organisations to improve the gathering of this, in part using ontologies.