This is the research site of Bernard van Gastel. This site includes academic articles, and background articles. Sometimes I appear in the media, and that is also listed here. I work at the Radboud University, in the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS). I work on energy efficient software by creating methods to analyse energy consumption of software, and combine that with research into the effects of digitalization which affects society. Together, I call this Sustainable Software. My non-academic programming work can be found on my Bit Powder site, which include a shared clipboard over SSH utility, and some libraries.
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2024-07-19 Publication is out, together with Jordy Aaldering and Sven-Bodo Scholz. It is about type-patterns for programming languages, allowing for improved code quality and efficiency gains for compute intensive applications.
2024-07-03 I was interviewed by Trouw (in Dutch) on the rising carbon emissions by Google and Microsoft due to the increasing use of AI.
2024-05-21 A vacancy for a software developer in our national growth fund team is open. Our growth fund project is called NOLAI and is about responsible use of AI in primary and secondary education. Deadline is 4 June.
2024-04-10 SIDN Fund published a call on sustainable internet. I'm on the committee judging the proposals.
2024-04-04 Gave a workshop on sustainable IT during the national day for sustainability professionals of higher education institutions. We identified the main challenges and opportunities.
2024-03-27 Our report on the CO2 emission of air photography of the Dutch government and the data it generated has been published (in Dutch).
2024-03-19 Together with Marie-Sophie Simon (a master student of our program), I gave a talk at the Education days of the Radboud University on how to make your teaching more sustainable, on how we are co-creating our course on Sustainability and IT. They even made a short film about it.
2024-03-16 Interview on Radboud Recharge about the digital clean up day, and how to manage datasets more sustainable.
2024-03-11 Forthcomming: book chapter in Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World, titled 'In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools and Interventions', authored by Miriam Fahimi, Petter Falk, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Juliane Jarke, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Evan Light, Ellouise McGeachey, Itzelle Medina Perea, Nikolaus Poechhacker, Lindsay Poirier, Theo Röhle, Tamar Sharon, Marthe Stevens, Bernard van Gastel, Quinn White and Irina Zakharova'.
2024-01-04 Interviewed by Binnenlands Bestuur (in Dutch) on how the Dutch governement forgets IT for its climate goals and Business Insider on how the Dutch governement forgets IT for its climate goals: higher data usage of computers using AI and archiving requirements.
2023-12-06 Interviewed by ANS (in Dutch) on the size of our digital footprint.
2023-12-01 Interviewed on Radio 1 (in Dutch) to answer questions on the effect on sustainability of Google deleting old accounts.
2023-11-28 Interviewed by KennisLink for an article on sustainable data storage, published on 17-11-2023.
2023-11-22 Interviewed on Radio 1 (in Dutch) to answer questions on how much water ChatGPT costs to answer questions.
2023-11-14 A paper titled 'The organizational hurdles of structurally reducing the energy consumption of software', authored by Roy van der Steen and myself, has been accepted at BENEVOL 2023. Presentation is at 28 November, full text forthcoming.
2023-11-03 Interviewed by AG Connect about how organisations can make their IT consume less energy.
2023-11-01 Job Doesburg started on a PhD project to safely reuse a system to store privacy-sensitive data in a new and changing context, supervised by me and Erik Poll. Welcome Job!
2023-10-11 On 7 November, I'm invited as a speaker at the Super Tuesday event of KNVI, the association of information professionals. The event has as theme Green IT (watch back).
2023-10-01 Jordy Aaldering started on a PhD project to save energy by adjusting software behaviour using runtime conditions, supervised by me and Sven-Bodo Scholz. Welcome Jordy!
2023-09-25 I co-organized the IPA Fall Days on Sustainable Computing, from 25 until 29 September. One of the computer science graduate schools in the Netherlands, IPA (Instituut voor Programmatuur en Algoritmiek), organized a full week on sustainable computing for PhD students in the Netherlands. I serve as program committtee.
Contact info
Bernard van Gastel (in full: Dr B.E. van Gastel)
Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS)
Radboud University
Bernard.vanGastel@ru.nl
M1.01.01a in the Mercator 1 building, Radboud University (see route description)
024-3653175