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, Gaming Culture and Technologies
What's New at ISR
- Registration is open for the ISR Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) and ISR Annual Research Forum. Both events are being held on Friday, June 6, at UCI.
April 2008 - ISR Graduate Student Leyna Cotran (S. Elliott Sim, advisor) presented at North Carolina State University's Inaugural Symposium for Graduate Research. This event was an outgrowth of ISR's 2007 Graduate Student Research Symposium, at which NCSU graduate student Sarah Heckman presented.
April 2008 - ISR Prof. Walt Scacchi has been appointed to EON Reality's board of advisors, where he will provide strategic technical direction for EON Reality's core software development and partnerships.
March 2008 - Two ISR Faculty members were recipients of a 2007 Google Research Award, each in the amount of $50,000. One award went to ISR Professor Alfred Kobsa to support his research on "Compliance with Disparate Privacy Laws and User Privacy Preferences". The other award went to ISR Professor Gloria Mark in support of her research on managing multi-tasking and Interruptions.
January 2008 - ISR Professor Paul Dourish has been elected to the CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the disiplines and led the research in human-computer interaction.
January 2008 - ISR Director Richard N. Taylor, ISR Professor Neno Medvidovic, and ISR Alumnus Peyman Oreizy's paper "Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution" has been awarded the Most Infulential paper of ICSE 1998. Each year the current program committee for ICSE reviews the papers from the ICSE that was held 10 years ago to select the paper they consider to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering since its original publication.
January 2008 - ISR Connector issue 9, Fall/Winter 2007 is available.
Prior issues are
also available.
November 2007 - Prior news is available.
ISR Events
- The annual ISR Research Forum 2008.
June 6, 2008 - The Graduate Student Research Symposium 2008, an event for graduate students by graduate students.
June 6, 2008 - Thank you for making the 2007-2008 ISR Distinguished Speaker schedule a success. The 2008-2009 ISR Distinguished Speaker Series will be announced in late summer.
Open Positions
- The Institute for Software Research may have full-time Postdoctoral Scholar position available.