Personalization has become a household term in the online consumer market. E-tailers, search engines, and social networks all want to tailor their services to their users. Many surveys show that…
Social media thrives on immediacy. Whether a tweet, a Facebook update, or a post to a Google+ stream, the focus is “what’s going on now.” The seductive character of immediacy,…
I had the honor of chairing the ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH/OOPSLA) this year. That means that I was like a Producer, and…
Whereas many view software system complexity, immensity, and dynamism as formidable difficulties, ISR Professor James A. Jones views these traits with excitement. “Software is a living artifact — constantly changing — full…
Early in June I had the privilege of giving a talk at the Boeing site in Huntington Beach, as part of their Distinguished Researcher and Scholar Seminar series. I always…
In March 2011, Christoph Dorn from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria joined ISR as a post-doctoral visiting researcher. Dorn completed his Ph.D. on Adaptation Techniques in…
ISR continued its tradition of participating in the Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW), which is sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation – one of ISR’s long-time supporters. GSAW has been held…
ISR faculty, research staff, and students are actively involved in advancing the science and technology embodied in computer games and virtual worlds (CGVW). CGVW generally rely on common core software…
During the past decade, USC Professor and ISR Faculty Associate, Nenad Medvidović has been looking at the role software engineering plays—and should play—in the emerging, related fields of grid computing…
On November 26, 2010, ISR Professor Gloria Mark presented the keynote talk at the Seventh National CCSCW (China Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) Conference, held in Nanjing, China. The talk was entitled…