Mission Statement

The ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering seeks to improve our ability to engineer software by stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators; by fostering the professional development of software engineers; and by representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.

SIGSOFT Events

SIGSOFT sponsors some very popular events in the area of Software Engineering. An up to date list of those events can be found here. Consult the ACM Calendar of Events for more information about dates and deadlines. More information for event organizers that are interested in cooperating with SIGSOFT can be found here.

News

• Welcome the New SIGSOFT Executive Committee!: The results are in! In the recent SIGSOFT elections David Rosenblum was elected SIGSOFT Chair, and Matt Dwyer was elected vice-chair. We also have a great group of at-large members of the Executive Committee: Jo Atlee, Laurie Dillon, Gail Murphy and Bashar Nuseibeh. We welcome them all and thank them for their service to the community. We would also like to think the most recent past chair, Bill Griswold, for his excellent work as chair!
  2009-07-02
  
  
• Nico Habermann: Influential Educator: CMU has an interesting press release describing the SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award which was recently awarded posthumously to CMU professor Nico Habermann.
  2009-06-24
  
  
• Lots of new awards!: A number of new awards have been given out and posted around the site. Stuart Zweben won the 2009 Distinguished Service Award. Richard N. Taylor won the 2009 Outstanding Research Award. The first ever Influential Educator Award was given to Nico Habermann (Posthumously) and Laurie Williams. Finally, a number of Distinguished Paper Awards were given out at this year's ICSE. Congratulations to all the awardees!
  2009-06-22