Mission
The mission of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) is to:
Advance software and information technology through research partnerships.
ISR is dedicated to:
- fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies;
- working with established companies, start-ups, government agencies, and standards bodies to develop and transition the technologies to widespread and practical application;
- educating the next generation of software researchers and practitioners in advanced software technologies; and
- supporting the public service mission of the University of California in developing the economic basis of the State of California.
Research Emphases
The Institute's research emphases
include:
Software Architecture, Decentralized Development and Applications, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Design, Information Visualization, Open Source Software, Games, Virtual Worlds and Interactive Technologies, Privacy and Security, Testing, Debugging and Analysis, and Web Technologies
Events
Join us for the next ISR Research Forum, to be held on Friday, May 31, 2013! The Forum features 8 Faculty Talks, an Open House, a Reception, and a Keynote by Prof. Nenad Medvidovic, Professor, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, titled "When, Where, and Why Software Systems Decay and What We Can Do About It".
- Thanks for making the 2013
ISR Distinguished Speaker Series a success! Slides and videos are available on the web page for each talk.
You can download the poster (PDF) here:
The Donald Bren School of ICS offers graduate degrees focusing on Software Engineering:
What's New at ISR
- Join us for the 2013 ISR Research Forum, to be held on May 31. Faculty Talks, Open House, Keynote by Prof. Nenad Medvidovic, USC, and a Reception with Posters and Demos.
April 2013
- Prof. Debra J. Richardson and alum Stephanie Leif Aha and alum T. Owen O'Malley have received a 2013 SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award for their paper “Specification-based Test Oracles for Reactive Systems,” which appeared in ICSE ’92: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering.
February 2013 - The ISR Distinguished Speaker Series 2013 is announced.
February 2013
- ISR Connector issue
19, Fall/Winter 2012, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
December 2012 - Prof. Bonnie Nardi has co-edited the book Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World, togther with Paul M. Leonardi and Jannis Kallinikos.
November 2012 - Prof. David Redmiles gave the opening keynote address, entitled “Awareness, Trust, and Tool Support in Distance Collaborations,” at the Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems (SBSC 2012) in October in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
October 2012 - Prof. Paul Dourish gave the opening keynote talk, entitled “The Materialities of Information: Databases and Representational Practice,” at NordiCHI 2012 – the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research.
October 2012 - Prof. Bonnie Nardi has co-authored the book Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, together with Tom Boellstorff, UCI Anthropology, Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech, and T. L. Taylor, MIT.
September 2012
- Prof. Walt Scacchi, has been awarded $133,163 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on EAGER: Creating a Framework for Prototyping Science Missions.
September 2012 - Prof. Gloria Mark, ISR, and Prof. Mark Warschauer, School of Education, have been awarded $500,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research on Multitasking as a Collaborative System: Examining the Millennial Generation.
September 2012 - Prof. Walt Scacchi, has been awarded $106,754 by the US Navy for his research on Streamlining the Process of Acquiring Secure Open Architecture Software Systems.
September 2012 - Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes has been awarded $500,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research on Automatic Software Architecture Recovery: A Machine Learning Approach.
September 2012 - Prof. André van der Hoek is serving as an Editor in Chief for the new Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD), which is part of SpringerOpen - a suite of fully Open Access journals from Springer. Prof. Nenad Medvidovic is serving on the Editorial Board. JSERD launches in late September.
September 2012 - ISR Connector issue
18, Spring/Summer 2012, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
July 2012 - Prof. Walt Scacchi gave a Keynote address titled “Game
Development Competitions: Software Engineering as a Team
Sport,” at the Workshop on Games and Software
Engineering, at the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE), Zurich, Switzerland.
June 2012 - Prof. Hadar Ziv gave a talk titled “Human Centered Software Engineering: If it doesn’t work for people, it doesn’t work!” at The Aerospace Corportion in El Sugundo, CA, in June, as part of their Computer Science Division Tech Forum meeting series.
June 2012
- Prior news is available.
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