Champagne Toast at the Festschrift

The last event at the Festschrift on Tuesday was a champagne toast delivered gracefully by Alex Wolf to Lee Osterweil. Lee offers a terrific response: "ICSE is home to me." Enjoy!

ICSE 2011 Awards-1

Yesterday the first batch of awards were handed out at ICSE 2011 by the organizers of the conference.

ICSE 2011 Program Co-Chairs, Harald Gall and Nenad Medvidović presented five papers with distinguished paper awards and the news was also announced on the SigSoft website. Here is a list of papers that won the distinguished awards.

1. Antonio Filieri, Carlo Ghezzi, and Giordano Tamburrelli, Run-Time Efficient Probabilistic Model Checking
2. Lucas Cordeiro and Bernd Fischer, Verifying Multi-threaded Software using SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checking
3. Narayan Ramasubbu, Marcelo Cataldo, Rajesh Krishna Balan, and James D. Herbsleb, Configuring Global Software Teams: A Multi-Company Analysis of Project Productivity, Quality, and Profits
4. Horatiu Dumitru, Marek Gibiec, Negar Hariri, Jane Cleland-Huang, Bamshad Mobasher, Carlos Castro-Herrera, and Mehdi Mirakhorli, On-demand Feature Recommendations Derived from Mining Public Product Descriptions
5. Matt Staats, Michael W. Whalen, and Mats P.E. Heimdahl, Programs, Tests, and Oracles: The Foundations of Testing Revisited

MIP Chair, DeWayne Perry, presented Dr. Paolo Tonella from FBK (Trento, Italy) with the Most Influential Paper award from ICSE 2001 for his paper titled "Analysis and Testing of Web Applications" written with Dr. Filippo Ricca. Dr. Tonella gave a brief presentation about his work and showed the influence of his work on areas such as Test input generation, Model generation and Ajax (Web 2.0) testing.

Hausi   Müller, IEEE TCSE Chair, presented a number of awards. This year, IEEE named three new fellows from the SE community. They were Dr. Lori Clarke from UMass (Amherst, MA) for her contributions to software testing and verification, Dr. Mary Jean Harrold from Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA) for her contributions to software systems and Dr. Alexander Wolf from Imperial College (London, UK) for his contributions to software architecture.

Dr. Gene F. Hoffnagle received the IEEE TCSE Outstanding Service Award and the IEEE TCSE Outstanding Educator Award was to Dr. Ian Sommerville from St. Andrews University (Scotland).

More awards will be announced today at the conference at 4pm in Coral Ballrooms 4&5.

 

--Shauvik

Adrian's Day Number 6 - Keynote, NIER, SRC and Microsoft

Like Wednesday, we started Thursday with a fantastic presentation on design. I enjoyed the talk as it focused on an interesting subject: big picture thinking. I think Bill Dresselhaus made many good points about how we should change our approach to solving problems and how to be more creative and inventive using prototypes.

I had the chance not only to talk to one but two MSR researchers, see the two videos with Nachi Naggappan and Nikolai Tillmann:

If you listened to Nikolai Tillmann's message you might have heard about two things Pex and TouchStudio, below I included a video demoing TouchStudio, have fun.

One other thing MSR is announcing the winner of the Pex4Fun competition on Friday by the end of the conference: don't miss it!

We also had some amazing NIER posters that were presented about various new ideas among them Irwin Kwan and Christoph Treude together with Ohad Barzilay. You should definetly check out the NIER program if you haven't done so already. Well on another note, the winners of the Student Research Comaptions have been announces. I'd like to get a drumroll please... *drumroll*

Graduate category (will advance to the ACM grand finals):

1. Shauvik Roy Choudhary
2. Sai Zhang
3. Sandeep Kumap

Undergraduate category (will advance to the ACM grand finals):

1. Julius Davies
2. Vanessa Pena

And the special award for "Best project representing an innovative use of Microsoft technology" goes to:

• Xusheng Xiao

Well congratulations to everyone, not only to those that won prizes but to everyone that participated, I loved your poster session too; you all did an amazing job!

-- Adrian

ICSE 2011 Networking Consultants

Keeping  800+ software engineers on-line in a relatively confined space is no easy feat.  We all have horror stories of internet service at computer science conferences.  ICSE 2011 Internet Chair, Justin Erenkrantz, was determined that ICSE 2011 would not be one of them.

The key to the solution was hiring the right people for the job.  Enter our networking experts extraordinaire, Cliff Skolnick(left)  and Ron Lee(right).  They are continually monitoring to make sure that our 19+ event space access points are humming.

Cliff Skolnick has more than two decades of experience in Internet servers, security, and connectivity. He is a founding member of Apache Group/Apache Software Foundation.  Skolnick was a co-founder and chief information officer of Organic Online, where he designed the network and server architecture used by such high-profile clients as Volvo, Levi's, Sybase, MCI, Netscape, Saturn, and Microsoft. Before Organic, Cliff applied his networking and software skills at Sun Microsystems in the Internet engineering group.

Ron Lee has been doing technical marketing for over 20 years with VMware and Sun Microsystems.  Currently he is working as an independent consultant on internet sales and marketing.  He has done shows and events from as small as a few hundred to over 40K!  He spends lot of time Honolulu so be sure and ask him for restaurant recommendations (you’ll find some on our restaurant forum).

Come visit them at control central, South Pacific Board Room (2nd floor, next to Sea Pearl 1).  Report any networking problems to them or get help getting connected.

Slides from Jim Whitehead's Mining Software Repositories Keynote

Jim Whitehead has made the slides from his keynote at MSR earlier this week available here: http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2011/05/fantasy-farms-and-freemium-what-game-data-mi...

Video of ICSE 2011 Luau

ICSE Attendee Sergio Soares videotaped the entire performance of the ICSE 2011 Luau. It is hosted on YouTube.

Thanks Sergio!

Wonderful Set of Photos from the ICSE 2011 Luau Reception

Jon Bell has shared a fantastic set of photos from last night's Luau.

Thanks Jon!

Adrian's Day Number 5 - Keynote, NIER and SRC

Today was the official start of the main conference. And like past ICSEs it started with the general chair and the program chairs saying a few words to welcome everybody and set the tone for the rest of the conference. We posted earlier the slides of Dick Taylors presentation, if you want to know more that's the way to go. 

After a great presentation by Kumiyo Nakakoji (more info in an earlier post) we had a chance to talk to some researchers from Microsoft (the guys with the flip flops) that set up shop in the main break room as well as some google representatives (the guys with the blinking lights). But I had to quickly head over to the NIER track to support my fellow UVic students Irwin Kwan and Christoph Treude. I especially liked Irwin's talk about emergent people, it was well structured, easy to understand, and gave us an excuse to send e-mail using the spray and pray method.

Before the NIER session ended I started my shift as lunch bouncer, basically ensuring that only registered people take food. It turned out to be a very interesting way to meet people, well most of the conference attendees wanted to eat lunch. Well, that lasted only for a short while and after having lunch I helped prepare the SRC and SCORE poster session. I had tons of fun during the poster session. I visited nearly every single poster and there was one poster I personally liked the best, the poster by Shane McIntosh (see the picture abover thats Shane and Julius Davies).

Then after the poster presentation which took an hour longer than expected (way to go attracting and retaining so many people) it was time for the Luao. I only took a few mediocre photos but I saw many SLR's out there. So please share your photos on the conference picture gallery with us!

-- Adrian

Technical Briefing: Software Visualization

One of the technical briefings on Tuesday focused on the topic of software visualization. Michele Lanza of the University of Lugano hosted this session and looked at how software visualization deals with software, both in terms of run-time behavior (dynamic visualization) and structure (static visualization). It has been widely used by the reverse engineering and program comprehension research community, providing ways to uncover and navigate information about software systems. He then presented how software visualization might impact the functionality of future IDEs.

Technical Briefing: Empirical Software Engineering 2.0

On Tuesday, one of the technical briefings focused on the topic of empirical software engineering. The hosts, Tim Menzies and Forrest Shull, discussed ways that will allow empirical software engineering research to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation found in industry, including such techniques as crowdsourcing and various automated approaches to data synthesis, analysis, and interpretation.  Here are some pictures from this lively and interesting event.