Dear members of CHOOSE, We are pleased to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum to be held on November 29, 2013 at the University of Bern. This year's topic is "Software Engineering: Between Wishful Thinking and Thinkable Wishes" The full day event will feature five talks and a panel. The speakers are: - Eric Gamma, Microsoft Research, Switzerland * Surviving Application Scale JavaScript - TypeScript in the Trenches - Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria * Can we design and engineer Elastic Systems? - Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy * It isn’t Just Structure: Different Views to Identify Source Code Smells - Iulian Dragos, Typesafe, Switzerland * Object-Oriented meets Functional: The Scala programming language - Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany * A Thousand Testers in a Shoe Box: Advances in Automated Test Generation The day also features the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports from the President and the Treasurer, and elections for the CHOOSE Executive Board. More details together with the registration form can be found on the official webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2013 We hope to see many of you at the Forum! Kind regards, Michele Lanza, Tudor Girba, Mircea Lungu, Thomas Fritz (Organizers)