The Department of Informatics hosted a workshop for the participants in the NSF “SCALE” grant. ISR Prof. André van der Hoek and ISR Prof. David Redmiles are co-PIs for the…
“It’s like déjà vu all over again.”Perhaps you saw the news headlines in late July that the Social Security Administration has spent close to $300 million to procure a system…
“Dynamism. The quality of being characterized by change and progress.” Software, in particular, is defined by this quality. From changing source code, contributed by teams of developers over the course…
Spoken to any software developers about HealthCare.gov? Everyone that I’ve spoken with, of whatever political persuasion, cringes when the topic comes up. It seems that every conceivable principle of software…
Crowdsourcing systems have demonstrated great success in enabling challenging tasks to be performed rapidly by massive crowds of casual workers. In 2011, players of the game Foldit were able to…
Marco Aurelio Gerosa, an associate professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), arrived at UCI in July with two of his Ph.D. students, Igor Steinmacher and Igor Wiese, both…
ISR is hosting visiting professor Alf Inge Wang, from August 2013 to July 2013, on invitation by his ISR faculty host Director Richard N. Taylor. Wang is a professor in…
Back in the 1940s, the French writer Raymond Queneau wrote an interesting book with the title Exercises in Style featuring 99 renditions of the exact same story, each written in…
Retirement! Or not!If you had the pleasure of attending the most recent ISR Forum, on May 31st, you heard me announce that I am retiring from the University of California,…
From June 2013 through May 2014, ISR is hosting Prof. Christian Wagner, on invitation by his ISR faculty host Prof. Walt Scacchi. Wagner is Chair Professor of Social Media and…