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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

  • New Impact Publication: A new article has been published as part of the Impact Project entitled, The Impact of Research on the Development of Middleware Technology. It is interesting reading, and we highly recommend that you take a look!
    2008-08-27

  • Peer-Support Group for Junior SE Faculty: Tao Xie, of North Carolina State University, has started a peer-support group for junior SE faculty. Full details can be found here. Its purpose is to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas and a source of new collaborations, and includes, among other features, a wiki and facebook group to support these goals.
    2008-08-24

  • First Impact Award Announced: The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award has been presented to Alexander L. Wolf and David S. Rosenblum for the paper "A design framework for internet-scale event observation and notification. "The selection committee was composed by Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Chair), Bill Griswold (University of California at San Diego, USA), Axel Van Lamsweerde (Universitè Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and John Knight (University of Virginia, USA). The committee unanimously recognized that this widely cited paper has been very influential in promoting the publish/subscribe coordination paradigm for large, Internet-scale distributed systems. Publish/subscribe middleware can provide the necessary run-time support to evolvable and adaptable architectures, which are becoming more and more important to support modern service-based applications.

    he SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award is presented for the first time in 2008. It is intended to be presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT sponsored or cosponsored conference held at least 10 years prior to the award year. In including all of SIGSOFT’s conferences in the competition, this award recognizes the breadth and vitality of the software engineering community. The papers are judged by their influence since their publication. The authors will present an invited retrospective keynote talk at the SIGSOFT Foundations of Software conference (Atlanta, November 9-14).
    2008-08-11

  • 2008 Anger Award Winner: Basil Becker: SIGSOFT is pleased to announce that Basil Becker, a student member of SIGSOFT, has been selected to receive the 2008 Frank Anger Memorial Award. Dr. Frank Anger was an outstanding national leader in the field of software engineering. One of his primary goals was supporting the crossover of ideas between research communities engaged in software. The Frank Anger MemorialAward is meant to provide successful PhD students who are performing research in Software Engineering or Embedded Systems awareness of opportunities and challenges emerging in complimentary research areas. The full announcement can be read here.
    2008-07-18