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, Software Architecture, Interactive and Collaborative Technologies, Design, Ubiquitous Computing, Web Technologies, Game Culture and Technologies
ISR Events
- FOSS 2010: Workshop on the Future
of Research on Free/Open Source Software
Wednesday-Friday, February 10-12, 2010 ISR Distinguished Speaker: Nenad Medvidovic, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
"Software Architecture and Mobility: A Perfect Marriage or An Uneasy Alliance?"Friday, February 26, 2010
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ISR Distinguished Speaker: Mary Lou Soffa, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
"Path-Based Fault Correlations"Friday, March 5, 2010
- The complete Winter/Spring 2010 ISR Distinguished Speaker Series schedule is available.
Open Positions
- The Institute for Software Research has full time Post-doctoral Scholar positions available.
September 2009
The Donald Bren School of ICS offers graduate degrees focussing on Software Engineering:
What's New at ISR
- ISR Connector issue
13, Fall/Winter 2009, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
December 2009 - ISR Profs. Walt Scacchi, Crista
Lopes, and Gloria Mark have
received a $15,000 Discover award from Northrop Grumman
Intelligent Systems to seed a virtual worlds and game technology
research collaboration.
November 2009 - ISR Prof. Crista Lopes served
as a guest participant at Intel
CEO Justin Rattner's opening keynote address at Super Computing
2009. Lopes was invited to participate due to her role as one of the
main architects of OpenSim.
November 2009 - ISR Director Richard N.
Taylor and alumnus Roy
T. Fielding were featured on KOCI's "Inside
OC" in an episode on the 40th Anniversary of the Internet.
The episode first aired on Oct 7; it can be downloaded from the Inside
OC web site.
October 2009 - ISR Prof. Gloria Mark has been awarded $479,270 by NSF for "Collaborative
Research: Widescale Computer-Mediated Communication in Crisis Response:
Roles, Trust & Accuracy
in the Social Distribution of Information."
September 2009 - ISR Prof. Paul Dourish, together
with Prof. Irina Shklovski of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
have received a $500,00 grant from the NSF to study social networking
in Kazakhstan, Russia. The project is titled "From
Local Ties to Transnational Connections: The Role of Computer-mediated
Communication in Relational Maintenance".
September 2009
- ISR Prof. André
van der Hoek has been awarded $500,000 by the NSF for his research
on "Calico:
Improving Software Design Education with Tool Support, Design Exercises,
and Course Modules for Sketch-Based, Continuous Design Practice and
Reflection".
September 2009 - ISR Director Richard N. Taylor has
been awarded $500,000 by NSF for his work on "Making
and Tracing: Architecture-centric Information Integration".
September 2009
- ISR Prof. Walt Scacchi has
been awarded $120,000 by the Naval Postgraduate School for his research
on "Investigating Advances in the Acquisition of Systems based
on Open Architecture and Open Source Software".
September 2009
- ISR Profs. Walt Scacchi and
Tony
Wasserman have been named as Founding Members of Open
Source for America, a coalition of industry leaders, non-government
groups and academic/research institutions organized to serve as a centralized
advocate, to encourage broader U.S. Federal Government support of and
participation in free and open source software. Wasserman has also been
named to the Board
of Advisors.
July 2009
- Prior news is available.