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
What's New at ISR
- ISR Connector issue
12, Spring/Summer 2009, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
June 2009 - ISR Faculty Associate Robert
Nideffer is participating in the World
of Warcraft Emergent Media Phenomenon Exhibit at the Laguna
Art Museum.
The exibit is being held from June 14 - October 4, 2009. Robert will speak
at the exibit on August 16, and a forum will be held at UCI on October
1 as part of the exhibit program.
June 2009 - ISR Director Prof. Richard
N. Taylor has been selected as the winner of the 2009
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. This prestigious award
is presented to an individual who has made significant and
lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software
engineering.
May 2009 - ISR Prof. Walt Scacchi has
received a grant for $86,500 from the Computing Community Consortium
to hold an international
symposium on the future of research and multidisciplinary empirical
science of free/open source software in late 2009.
March 2009
- ISR Researcher Margaret
S. Elliott and
ISR Prof. Walt
Scacchi's paper "Mobilization
of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement" has
been chosen as a Highly
Commended Award Winner for the Literati
Network Awards for Excellence 2009.
March 2009 - ISR Prof. Susan Sim has receives an NSF CAREER award of $498,367 for her
research on "Program
Comprehension in Internet-Scale Code Search for Open Source Reuse in Opportunistic
Software Development".
February 2009 - ISR Connector issue
11, Fall/Winter 2008, is available. Prior
issues are also available.
December 2008 - ISR Director Richard Taylor,
ISR faculty associate Professor Nenad
Medvidovic of the University of Southern California, and ISR
alumnus Dr. Eric
Dashofy of The Aerospace Corporation, have written the first
comprehensive textbook and professional reference in the field of
software architecture. The text, entitled Software
Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, is published
by John Wiley & Sons.
December 2008
- Prior news is available.
ISR Events
- Thank you for making the ISR Annual Research
Forum: Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration and Innovation
a success!
- Thank you for making our 2008-2009 ISR Distinguished Speaker Series a success! The 2009-20010 Distinguished Speaker series will be announced in late summer.