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
- 2012 Ground System Architectures Workshop
- held in cooperation with ISR
February 27 - March 1
-
ISR Distinguished Speaker: John Riedl, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
"Community, Cooperation, and Conflict in Wikipedia"
Friday, March 2, 2012
- The 2011-2012
ISR Distinguished Speaker Series schedule is available.
You can download a PDF flyer for the series:
The Donald Bren School of ICS offers graduate degrees focussing on Software Engineering:
What's New at ISR
- Prof. Alfred Kobsa received a gift in the amount of $80,000 from Samsung Information Systems America. The gift will support his research in the area of user privacy preferences and international privacy legislation in cloud services. Recently, he also received a gift from Ericsson Research for his work in this area.
February 2012 - ISR Connector issue
17, Fall/Winter 2011, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
December 2011 - Profs. Cristina Videira Lopes and David Redmiles have been named 2011 Distinguished Scientists by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Distinguished Member (Scientist, Engineer, Educator) awards recognize members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field.
December 2011 - Prof. André van der Hoek’s Software Design and Collaboration Laboratory is now moderating and administering the ACM SIGSOFT SEWORLD email list. This email list serves the software engineering community through the dissemination of time-sensitive information relevant to the field of software engineering research.
November 2011 - Prof. Walt
Scacchi has been awarded $100,000 from the Naval Postgraduate
School for his research on "Acquisition of Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures". This is the
5th consecutive year Scacchi has received funding through the NPS
Acquisition Research Program.
October 2011 - Profs. André van der Hoek and David Redmiles have been awarded $475,542 from the NSF for their project “Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Human-Centered Coordination Systems to Support Interdependent Tasks in Context.”
September 2011 - Prof. Gloria Mark has received $30,000 from Northrop Grumman for her research on human cognition mechanisms, multitasking collaboration skills and multimedia audio/visual sensory methods to enhance intelligence analysts' performance and efficiency in a multi-source, multi-session chat environment.
September 2011 - Prof. Bonnie Nardi has been awarded $503,883 by NSF for her research on "Collaborative Research: Information Technology, Remote Socialization, and the Development of Occupational Identity".
August 2011 - ISR Connector issue
16, Spring/Summer, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
July 2011 - Prof. André van der Hoek has been awarded $500,000 from the NSF for “Software
Design Sketching”, in support of his Calico research project.
July 2011
- Prof. James A. (Jim) Jones has been awarded $499,600 from the NSF for his project “Promoting Efficient Debugging and High-Quality Software through Contextual Understanding of Faults.”
July 2011
- Prior news is available.
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