ISR Director Prof. Sam Malek
Fall/Winter 2018
It is my great honor to take over leadership of ISR from Prof. Cristina Lopes. Crista has moved on to take up the directorship of a new Professional Master degree…
Prof. Marian Petre
Professor André van der Hoek Hosts UCI Visiting Distinguished Professor Marian Petre
ISR welcomes Prof. Marian Petre, of The Open University in the UK, who is spending two months this year (spread over 4 two-week visits) as a UCI Visiting Distinguished Professor.…
Prof. Iftekhar Ahmed
Improving the Quality of Software using Testing and Fault Prediction
Software will always have bugs, and as software continues to become a more and more pervasive part of our lives, software bugs will continue to affect more people than ever.…
Keynote speakers Dr. Satish Chandra, Facebook, left and Dr. Sara Javanmardi, Google, right.
2018 ISR Research Forum: Where Research meets the Real World
ISR held its flagship event, the ISR Research Forum, on Friday June 8. The goal of this day-long event is to foster interaction between industry and ISR researchers, and encourage…
ICS Launches Professional Master of Software Engineering Program
NEW! UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) is pleased to announce the launch of its new and innovative Master in Software Engineering (MSE) program.Housed in…
Dean Papaefthymiou and alum Dr. Arthur Hitomi, Ingenuity Award.
Alumnus Dr. Art Hitomi Receives ICS Ingenuity Award
On May 29, alumnus Dr. Arthur Hitomi received the ICS Ingenuity Award at the joint ICS and Engineering Ingenuity 2018 event held at UCI’s Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center. The…
Dr. Shinobu Saito, Prof. André van der Hoek, and graduate student Adriana Meza Soria.
NTT Software Innovation Center Visitor Collaborates with ISR Researchers
From July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018, ISR was pleased to host visiting researcher Dr. Shinobu Saito, Senior Research Engineer at the NTT Software Innovation Center (NTT SIC), Software…
Prof. Jim Jones
Assisting the Comprehension of Intention versus Reality
Software does exactly what the developer told it to do — including when it fails. The reason that it sometimes fails is that it was told to do the wrong…
Professor Crista Lopes
Spring/Summer 2018
It my pleasure to welcome two new faculty members to the Institute for Software Research: Dr. Joshua Garcia and Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed. They both join the School of ICS as…
Prof. Bonnie Nardi making introductions at LIMITS 2018.
Computing Within Limits Workshop 2018
This year marks the 4th Computing within LIMITS Workshop, which was held in Toronto, Canada, and co-chaired by ISR Professor Bonnie Nardi together with Professor Jay Chen from NYU-Abu Dhabi.…