ISR
News Briefs
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Post-Doctoral Researcher Birgit Penzenstadler will be joining the Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) Department of California State University Long Beach as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in January 2015.
June 2014 -
Prof. James A. Jones, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant for his research on Aiding Comprehension of Complex Software Dynamics to Support High-Quality Software Development.
June 2014 -
Congratulations to recent ISR graduate, Nicolas Mangano (A. van der Hoek, advisor) who has been awarded the SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award!
May 2014 -
Prof. Walt Scacchi received a research grant of $114,607 for 2014-15 from the Naval Postgraduate School, Acquisition Research Program to investigate the cost-sensitive acquisition of open architecture software systems. This marks the eighth consecutive competitive award for Scacchi and ISR research associate, Thomas Alspaugh from the NPS ARP.
May 2014 -
Profs. Gloria Mark and Paul Dourish have both received a Best Paper Award from this year’s ACM Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) for their papers entitled "Narco" Emotions: Affect and Desensitization in Social Media during the Mexican Drug War and Emerging Sites of HCI Innovation: Hackerspaces, Hardware Startups & Incubators respectively.
May 2014 -
The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science spotlights ISR alumni Arthur Hitomi.
May 2014 -
Prof. Bonnie Nardi has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Umeå in Sweden for her research contributions to Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and for her outstanding and long lasting research collaboration with Umeå University.
April 2014 -
ISR Visitor Prof. Alf Inge Wang won Norway's "Technological Achievement of the Year" award, bestowed by the Norwegian science magazine Teknisk Ukeblad, for his work on in game-based learning and the Kahoot! educational game. Congratulations to Alf for this very special honor!
February 2014 -
Prof. André van der Hoek has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM. This prestigeous honor is given to ACM members based on their individual contributions and their singular impacts on the field of computing. Congratulations André!
November 2013 -
ISR Director Prof. Richard Taylor is giving a Keynote talk titled "Achieving Success in Open Software Ecosystems: The Role of Architectural Styles" at APSEC 2013 – The 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, December 2-5 in Bangkok, Thailand.
November 2013