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.

WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 Call

The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration will be held in Hong Kong on 5-7 August. Topics include wikis, social media, Wikipedia, free, libre and open source software and more. Please refer to the background and call.

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News

David Notkin, 1955 - 2013

David Notkin, ACM Fellow, editor-in-chief of ACM's Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and past chair of SIGSOFT, passed away on April 22. Read more at ACM and the University of WAshington.

ACM Publication Policy

Please see this presentation on ACM's new publication policy.

2013 Award Winners

Congratulations to these 2013 SIGSOFT award winners:

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation: Jeff Huang
• Distinguished Service: Wilhelm Schäfer
• Influential Educator Award: Tony Wasserman
• Outstanding Research Award: David Notkin
• Impact Paper Award: Michael Ernst, Jake Cockrell, Bill Griswold, and David Notkin

ACM Fellows

Congratulations to Gregor Kiczales and Walter F. Tichy, SIGSOFT members, on being named ACM Fellows!

Award Nominations Requested

The SIGSOFT Awards Committee welcomes nominations for the Frank Anger Memorial Award for which nominations are due July 1.