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Books Available For Review

If you're a member of SIGSOFT and would like to see your name in print, check out the list of available books, have the editor send you a book, read it, write up your review and send it in.

Papers, Reviews and Columns in the January Issue

The January issue of SEN includes reports and papers on:

The book reviews in the January issue are:

The letters and columns in the January issue include the following:

Software Engineering Education

Mark Ardis and Peter Henderson's January Software Engineering Education (SEEd) column discusses the differences and similarities between the disciplines of computer science and software engineering, with references to recent articles by David Parnas, Michael Davis, and Ewan Tempero. Mark and Peter note the increase in accredited BSSE programs and discuss trends in required courses. Read Mark and Peter's column in Software Engineering Notes online.

Potpourri 2012

In his January Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column, Mark Doernhoefer covers web sites that he uses regularly that don't fit into a single topic. There are encyclopedic, open source development, news, archives, surveys, standards, and free online courses.

Check it out in Software Engineering Notes online.

ICSE 2012

It's not too soon to start making plans to participate in ICSE 2012. The conference will be held from 2-9 June 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.

SIGSOFT 2012 FSE-20

The 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering will be held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina from 10-17 November 2012. Check the conference website for more information.

ESEC-FSE 2011

The 8th Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering was held in Szeged, Hungary from 5-9 September, 2011. Here's the conference website.

ICSE 2011

The 33nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011, was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from 21-28 May, 2011. Check the conference website for more information.

SEN online in the Digital Library

The full text of the current issue and all back issues of Software Engineering Notes is now available free online for SIGSOFT members in the ACM Digital Library.