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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

  • Conference Links: Links to SIGSOFT-Sponsored conferences have been added to the SIGSOFT Events page.
    2008-05-05

  • Updated: Guidelines for Running a Meeting: The Guidelines for Running a SIGSOFT-Sponsored Meeting have been updated with information on nominating papers for the SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
    2008-04-17

  • 2008 Distinguished Service Award: The 2008 SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award has been given to John C. Knight for his many years of dedication to the software engineering community. The award will be announced publicly at ICSE-08 in Leipzig Germany during a plenary session, May 14-16. Congratulations!
    2008-04-16

  • 2008 Outstanding Research Award: The 2008 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award has been given to Axel van Lamsweerde for his contributions to the area of requirements engineering, which have had a deep and lasting impact on the software engineering research community. The award will be announced publicly at ICSE-08 May 14-16 in Leipzig Germany during a plenary session. Additionally, Axel has been invited to present a plenary keynote address at SIGSOFT FSE-08 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) this November 11-13th. Congratulations!
    2008-04-16

  • Impact Project Publication: A new publication, produced as part of the Impact Project, entitled Determining the Impact of Software Engineering Research on Practice, by Leon Osterweil, Carlo Ghezzi, Jeff Kramer, and Alexander L. Wolf, has been posted on the Impact Project's Publications page.
    2008-04-12

  • ACM 2007 Software System Award Honors Pioneers of Software: ACM has recognized the developers of Statemate with the 2007 ACM Software System Award. Statemate is a software engineering tool that supports visual, graphical specifications that represent the intended functions and behavior of a system. It enables designers to specify, then test and execute the required interactions among system elements, allowing costly errors to be detected early in the design process. Statemate was developed by a team at AdCad, Ltd. (which became part of I-Logix, Inc. and later Telelogic) including David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Aron Trauring, and Mark Trakhtenbrot. The Software System Award is given to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing software systems that have had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts and/or commercial acceptance. This award carries a $35,000 prize, and financial support for the award is provided by IBM. Read the press release.
    2008-04-12