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	April 2008		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.
	March 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.
	January 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.

	December 2007		ISR Professor Alfred Kobsa has been elected to the 15-member Editorial Board of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). From its inception as a proceedings series in 1993, LNCS has evolved into an imprint of 16 sub-series and 7 journals covering the entire field of Computer Science. All 150,000 articles from the 5,000 volumes published to date are available online and receive about 2 million worldwide downloads per year. Professor Kobsa will specifically oversee the areas of Information Systems and Applications including Human-Computer Interaction.
	November 2007		ISR Connector issue 9, Fall/Winter 2007 is available. Prior issues are also available.
	October 2007		ISR Graduate students Sushil Bajracharya and Joel Ossher (C. Lopes, advisor), with visiting student Otavio Lemos (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos) won the first prize in the ACM student research competition at OOPSLA 2007 this year for their poster titled "CodeGenie: a Tool for Test-Driven Source Code Search". This puts them in the finals for the annual ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition.
	October 2007		ISR Prof. Walt Scacchi gave a State of the Art invited talk at the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007) titled “Free/Open Source Software Development: Recent Research results and Emerging Opportunities.”
	October 2007		ISR Prof. Gloria Mark gave a keynote speech at the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. She presented empirical results from fieldwork observations and experiments over three years which detail how information workers experience a high level of fragmentation in their work, regardless of organizational role.
	October 2007		Margaret Elliott, ISR Research Specialist, and Prof. Ken Kraemer, Director of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), have co-edited a special issue of The Information Society, The Legacy of Rob Kling: Social Informatics as a Research Discipline, Vol. 23, No.4, 2007. This issue honors the late Prof. Rob Kling’s contributions to the Social Informatics (SI) community–his impact on the past, current, and future state of the field of SI. The papers in this special issue are a subset of 24 papers presented at the Social Informatics Workshop, held at UCI, March 11-12, 2005 (http://www.crito.uci. edu/2/si/). See also ISR Connector Spring/Summer/2005, “Honoring the Late Rob Kling”.
	October 2007		Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science Assistant Professor Brian Demsky joins ISR.
	October 2007		The 2007-2008 ISR Distinguished Speaker schedule is available.
	September 2007		ISR Prof. Cristina Vidiera Lopes and colleagues have been awarded a $1.1 million NSF grant to develop a trustable cyberinfrastructure for water management. Their work focuses on transforming the California Sustainable Watershed Information Manager (CalSWIM) into an Open Collaborative Information Repository, in the form of a wiki with advanced content management features, including databases, GIS layers, and other forms of digital data.
	August 2007		ISR Prof. Cristina Vidiera Lopes, with ICS Prof. Baldi, received a $600,000 NSF grant for their “Large Scale Empirical Validation of the Aspect-Oriented Design Hypothesis” project, and will leverage this research to derive principles for modular design.
	August 2007		ISR Prof. Gloria Mark has been awarded a $450,000 NSF grant on “Collaboration Resiliance: Restoring Human Infrastructure with Technology”. Her work examines how human infrastructure, the patterns of relationships of people through various networks and social arrangements, can be repaired using information and communication technologies when the environment is disrupted. In partnership with IBM Haifa (Israel), the primary data collection for this project will be an ethnographic field study of people’s experience with the recent Israeli-Lebanese war.
	August 2007		Informatics professor Alfred Kobsa published the cover article "Privacy-Enhanced Personalization" in the August 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM. The article presents human-computer interaction strategies, policy measures and software architectures that can contribute to reconcile personalization with privacy.
	August 2007		ISR Prof. Crista Lopes was awarded a 3-year Science of Design grant for $173,019 by the NSF for research into "Large Scale Empirical Validation of the Aspect-Oriented Design Hypothesis".
	July 2007		ISR Prof. Walt Scacchi was awarded $44,600 from Intel for research on "Visualizing Socio-Technical Interaction Networks".
	July 2007		ISR Prof. Bonnie Nardi's research in Socializing through Gaming is featured in Calit2 Looks into the Games People Play.
	June 2007		The 2007 GSRS Best Paper Award was given to Rosalva Gallardo’s paper “Planning and Improvisation in Software Processes”, co-authored by her advisor ISR Prof. Susan Elliott Sim. ACM Crossroads published the paper in Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2007.
	June 2007		ISR Graduate Student Justin R. Erenkrantz has been appointed President of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF (co-founded by ISR Alumnus Roy Fielding) is one of the world's largest and most highly respected open-source organizations. Their flagship contribution, the http server project, powers the majority of the world's websites.
	May 2007		ISR Alumnus Jie Ren and ISR Director Richard N. Taylor will have their article "Automatic and Versatile Publications Ranking for Research Institutions and Scholars" published in the June 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM. Ren and Taylor present the results of a project that created an extensible framework which allowed for automated quantatative ranking of institutions based on research publications.
	May 2007		ISR Connector issue 8, Spring/Summer 2007 is available. Prior issues are also available.
	May 2007		ISR's long-standing relationship with The Aerospace Corporation is featured in their Spring 2007 issue of Crosslink which focuses on Developing the Technical Workforce. The article is titled "Building and Sustaining Strong College and University Relationships".

	September 2006		ISR Director Richard N. Taylor and ISR Professors Thomas Alspaugh, Cristina Lopes recently received IBM's Eclipse Innovation Awards. UCI's three awards are more than any other University.
	August 2006		ISR Faculty Associate Alfonso Fuggetta was interviewed for Port 25 Communications from the Open Source Software Lab @ Microsoft . His paper "Open Source, Standards and Formats" is widely circulated at Microsoft as a helpful guide in thinking about Open Source, Standards and Formats.
	August 2006		Anthony (Tony) I. Wasserman, Professor of Software Engineering Practice and Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation at Carnegie Mellon University - West Coast Campus, joins the ISR faculty.
	April 2006		ISR Co-sponsors MASSIVE: Research Summit on the Future of Networked Multiplayer Games
	February 2006		The Fall/Winter 2005 issue of our newsletter, ISR Connector, is available online. Prior issues are also available.
	January 2006		Gloria Mark was featured in a TIME magazine (Jan. 16, 2006) article titled “Help! I've Lost My Focus” on her research into strategies used by information workers to manage multiple activities and reveal the roles of technologies on those processes. Her student, Victor Gonzales, was also credited in the article.

	December 2005		ISR Acting Director Walt Scacchi was featured on the opening segment of Inside OC with Rick Reiff on KOCE in December 2005. Scacchi spoke on computer game culture and technology in Orange County, highlighting the UCI Game Lab’s work with the Discovery Science Center. December 2005
	December 2005		Les Gasser, ISR affiliated faculty member from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Walt Scacchi, Acting Director, both gave talks at the Gaming, Learning, and Libraries 2005 conference, held in Chicago in December. Gasser delivered the opening keynote, “New Landscapes for Libraries”, and Scacchi gave a one hour invited talk titled titled “Opportunities for Game Culture and Technology in Public Libraries”. December 2005
	October 2005		Gloria Mark featured in New York Times (October 16, 2005) article titled “Meet the Life Hackers”. The article focused on her research into strategies used by information workers to manage multiple activities and reveal the roles of technologies on those processes. Her student, Victor Gonzales, was also credited in the article.
	Fall 2005		Prof. Richard N. Taylor and Paul Dourish have been awarded $455,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to explore software architecture-based approaches for engineering secure decentralized applications with associate professor.
	July 2005		The Best Paper award at the First Intern. Conf. on Open Source Software was awarded to "Multi-Modal Modeling, Analysis and Validation of Open Source Software Requirements Processes" authored by the ISR team of Prof. Walt Scacchi, Graduate Student Chris Jensen, Prof. John Noll, and Research Staff member Margaret Elliott.
	July 2005		Prof. Walt Scacchi is serving as Acting Director from July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 while Director Richard N. Taylor is on sabbatical.
	June 2005		Informatics Prof. Hadar Ziv joins ISR.
	June 2005		The Spring/Summer 2005 issue of our newsletter, ISR Connector, is available. Prior issues are also available.
	April 2005		ISR Professor Alfred Kobsa interviewed in Microsoft's the know on personalization and privacy: "Taking it Personally"
	April 2005		Arts and Informatics Professor Robert Nideffer joins ISR
	April 2005		ISR Press Release: ISR's Richard Taylor awarded NSF Science of Design (SoD) grant, synergizing with ISR's key design contributions and UCI's proposed School of Design. The SoD will transform the way everything from autos and rockets to Web applications are designed.

	November 2004		ISR's Walt Scacchi was featured on the "High Impact" story of the day on Cnet's News.com recently. The article discussed how the demand for open source software is fostering new business opportunities.
	October 2004		The Fall/Winter 2004 issue of our newsletter, ISR Connector, is available. Prior issues are also available.
	July 2004		ISR Assistant Professor Cristina Lopes is one of three UC scientists chosen to participate in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering's 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium Sept. 9-11. The event brings together young engineers who are performing cutting-edge engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. More info is available in the Press Release.
	July 2004		ISR Prof. David Redmiles has been named Chair of the Informatics Dept. in the School of ICS.
	June 2004		The Spring/Summer 2004 issue of our newsletter, ISR Connector, is available. Prior issues are also available.
	March 2004		ISR Prof. Paul Dourish was recently interviewed by UPN channel 13 on privacy and cell phone usage. A video clip is available.
	March 2004		ISR Prof. Debra J. Richardson has been named Dean of the School of Information and Computer Science. Details in the press release.
	March 2004		ICS Associate Professor Bonnie Nardi and Assistant Professor Susan Elliott Sim join the ISR faculty.

	December 2003		The Fall/Winter 2003 issue of our newsletter, ISR Connector, is available. Prior issues are also available.
	December 2003		A press release from the National Science Foundation describes ISR's research and reports on Open Source Software.
	June 2003		Santa Clara University Assistant Professor John Noll joins the ISR faculty.
	June 2003		USC Assistant Professor Nenad Medvidovic joins the ISR faculty.
	May 2003		ISR Connector issue 2, Spring/Summer 2003, is available!

	December 2002		ISR launches its newsletter, the *ISR Connector.* The innaugural issue, Fall/Winter 2002, is available!
	November 2002		ICS Assistant Professor Thomas Alspaugh joins the ISR faculty.
	September 2002		ISR faculty Richard N. Taylor, Debra J. Richardson, Alfred Kobsa, David Redmiles, Paul Dourish, Gloria Mark, André van der Hoek and Walt Scacchi awarded $1.8 million NSF ITR grant on "An Integrated Social and Technical Approach to the Development of Distributed, Inter-organizational Applications".
	September 2002		ISR Graduate Student Eric Dashofy receives the prestigous National ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc. scholarship for 2002-04. ARCS is a unique, non-profit, national volunteer organization of women dedicated to providing scholarships to academically outstanding United States citizens studying to complete their degrees in science, medicine and engineering, thereby contributing to the worldwide advancement of science and technology.
	September 2002		ISR graduate student, Mark Bergman, was accepted to the SIGSOFT 2002/FSE-10 Student Research Forum at which senior Ph.D. students present their research.
	June 2002		Prof. Les Gasser (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) joins ISR as a Faculty Associate.
	June 2002		ISR Prof. André van der Hoek receives the UCI 2002 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in recognition of his outstanding work in faculty-mentored research.
	May 30, 2002		ISR Graduate Student Eric Dashofy receives award for "Promise as a Future Faculty Member" from the UCI Division of Undergraduate Education, Committee on Teaching.
	May 24, 2002		The IMPACT report on Configuration Management, co-authored by ISR Prof. André van der Hoek, is presented at ICSE 2002 and released.
	May 22, 2002		ISR Professor David S. Rosenblum receives the prestigiousICSE Most Influential Paper Award for his paper "Towards a Method of Programming with Assertions", ICSE-14, 1992. This award is presented at each ICSE meeting to the author(s) of the paper from the ICSE meeting of 10 years ago that is judged to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering during the 10 years since its original publication.
	May 22, 2002		Prof. Alfonso Fuggetta (Politecnico di Milano) joins ISR as a Faculty Associate.
	January 2002		Profs. Mark Ackerman (University of Michigan, SoI and EECS), Scott Samuelsen (UCI, Engineering and Director, Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP)), Simon Penny (UCI, Engineering and Fine Arts) and E. James Whitehead (UC Santa Cruz, Computer Science) join ISR as Faculty Associates.
	January 8, 2002		ISR Prof. Debra J. Richardson Named to Bay Area High-Tech Firm Board of Directors.

	October 2001		ISR Prof. Paul Dourish publishes book: Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction
	April 16, 2001		ISR announces extended support for xADL, all immediately available from its xADL @ UCI web site. xADL 2.0 is a software architecture description language (ADL) developed at UC Irvine/ISR for modeling the architecture of software systems. Unlike many other ADLs, xADL 2.0 is defined as a set of XML schemas.
	April 2001		ISR Profs. Gloria Mark and André van der Hoek have been awarded the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant. These five year grants are for Prof. van der Hoek's research on Continuous Change Management of Component-Based Software and Prof. Mark's research on Awareness Mechanisms for Next Generation Virtual Collocation.
	February 22, 2001		Applications using peer-to-peer technology (P2P) - the technology popularized by Napster - are being developed at Irvine-based Endeavors Technology. Gregory Alan Bolcer, Endeavors Technology CTO and ISR Alum, speaks about P2P technology in Net's Next Napster? From the Orange County Register.

	December 18, 2000		UCI announces release of extended support for xArch, immediately available at the xArch @ UCI Web site. xArch is a standard, extensible XML-based representation for software architectures. xArch provides a common core XML notation for software architectures.
	December 7, 2000		$300-Million research initiative to guide innovation in information technology.
	September 25, 2000		ISR faculty members Debra J. Richardson and David F. Redmiles receive $500,000, Mark Ackerman and Walt Scacchi receive $495,000 in information technology research (ITR) grants.
	May 25, 2000		Prof. Debra J. Richardson, an ISR founding faculty member, named chair of UC Irvine's Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS). (press release).
	May 10, 2000		eBuilt's Fielding Recognized By UC Irvine As Outstanding Graduate Student Of The Year.
	April 2000		ISR Profs. Richard Taylor and Walt Scacchi receive $50,000 Defense Acquisition University grant to continue exploratory studies in the virtual acquisition of large software systems.
	2000		The 1999 ACM Software System Award goes to the Apache Software Foundation. Roy Fielding, Chairman of The Apache Software Foundation and Chief Scientist of eBuilt, Inc., is an ISR alumni having received his doctorate from UCI in 2000.