ISR
News Briefs
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Prof. Anita Sarma joins ISR as a faculty associate. Welcome aboard Anita!
November 2013 -
ISR Visitor Alf Inge Wang gives Informatics Dept. Seminar talk on his game-based classroom response system, Kahoot! Click here to see the video.
October 2013 -
Prof. Yang Wang joins ISR as a faculty associate. Welcome aboard Yang!
October 2013 -
Prof. André van der Hoek has been awarded $300,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on Social-Technical Code Search.
September 2013 -
Prof. André van der Hoek has co-edited the book Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work, with Marian Petre. The book, in the Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series, looks at how developers design their software and features an interdisciplinary selection of writings that provide a comprehensive exploration of early software design, as well as an examination of how human interaction influences software design.
September 2013 -
ISR Director Richard N. Taylor delivered the opening keynote talk , titled "The Role of Architectural Styles in Successful Software Ecosystems", at the 17th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2013), held in Tokyo, Japan, Aug 26-30.
August 2013 -
Prof. André van der Hoek taught two classes on Creative Software Design at Samsung Electronics in Suwon, Korea in August. The hands-on courses were attended by over 90 Samsung employees in total. Mr. Jeong-Hyeon Chung, Senior Manager at the Samsung Advanced Technology Training Institute in Suwon, hosted Prof. van der Hoek during his visit.
August 2013 -
Post-doctoral researcher Birgit Penzenstadler presented her paper “Who is the Advocate? Stakeholders for Sustainability,” co-authored by Henning Femmer, Tech.Univ. Munich and ISR Prof. Debra Richardson, at the 2nd Int’l Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS), held at the Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE) in San Francisco in May. She also co-organized a working session at the IEEE Int’l Requirements Engineering Conf. (RE), in Rio de Janeiro in July, and co-authored and presented three papers at the 2nd Int’l Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy), held at RE.
July 2013 -
Post-doctoral researcher Thomas LaToza presented two posters at the 6th Int’l Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) held at ICSE 2013 in May. The first, “A Study of Architectural Decision Practices,” was co-authored by Ph.D. student Evelina Shabani and Prof. André van der Hoek. The second, “Crowd Development,” was co-authored by Ph.D. student W. Ben Towne, of CMU, Prof. van der Hoek, and Prof. James D. Herbsleb, of CMU.
July 2013 -
Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes has been awarded $140,000 by the American Heart Association (AHA) for collaborative work with UCI Prof. Steve Cramer, Anatomy and Neurobiology, for their work on “Spatial Augmented Reality Games for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation.”
June 2013