ICSE 2011 Awards-1

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

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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

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