In this episode, we interviewed Laurie Williams, a Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University (NCSU or NC State) You can watch the video of this interview on YouTube, with subtitles available in both Portuguese and English, at https://youtu.be/WyTOtlY3NFY.  Laurie’s links: Webpage: https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurieawilliams/  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/lauriewilliams Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Williams_(software_engineer)  Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Cln2viUAAAAJ&hl=en  Links related to the interview: FSE 2024 (Porto de Galinhas, Brazil) https://conf.researchr.org/venue/fse-2024/fse-2024-venue  ICSE 2026: Apr 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.icse-conferences.org/  Interviewer: Adolfo Neto (PPGCA UTFPR) https://adolfont.github.io/  Our website is: https://fronteirases.github.io/⁠en  Opening Song: Extreme Energy (Music Today 80)  Composed & Produced by: Anwar Amr Video  Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZbAkKNx7s --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fronteirases/message