About Noury Bouraqadi

Noury with Sunglasses

Bio

I am a software developer, maker, repair hobbyist, environment/technology/robots lover. I work part-time as a university professor at IMT Nord Europe, in the Autonomous and ResilienT Systems group. My remaining work time is dedicated to a startup that makes a SaaS for teaching PLC programming & factory automation: PLC3000.
My academic research targets mobile and autonomous robots from two complementary perspectives: Software Engineering (SE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  From the SE perspective, I study software architectures, languages and tools for controlling individual robots. I mainly focus on reflective and dynamic languages, and more specifically Pharo, for a modular and agile development of robotic software architectures. From the AI perspective, I study coordination and cooperation in robotic fleets. I am mainly interested in communication models as well as emerging or predefined organizations for multi-agent robotic systems.

I’ve been lucky to conduct my research with many smart people. You can find here a list with those for whom I served as doctoral co-advisor, as well as those who worked as post-doctoral fellows and research engineers in my team.

Why This Site?

As a father, I am very concerned about the planet and the challenges faced by humanity. I also strongly believe that technology is the only way to make any significant change on a global scale (see Video below). This is why I made this site to spread technical knowledge, based on my expertise in computer science and robotics honed since the 1990’s. To do so, I organized this site in two complementary parts:

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life, it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilization, of arts and of sciences.

— Freeman Dyson

Code of Ethics

Doing good is not enough. The way to do it is important too. This is why this site is 100% ethical. By this I mean:

  • 100% independent. I view my readers as friends or students who deserve my best most objective content.
  • 0% tracking. No third party cookies, no Google analytics, no Facebook pixel, to preserve the privacy of this site visitors.
  • 0% invasive or hidden advertisement.  Ads if any are clearly labelled as so, and truly related to the content.
  • Favor open-source software. I spend a significant part of my time contributing to free open-source projects such as PharoJS.

How to Reach Me?

  • I am located in northern France, in Lille area.
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  • Find my scientific papers on my Google Scholar Page.
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