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[edit] A Chronology of SIGSOFT: its Officers, Conferences, Awards, and more

For questions, problems, or updates, please contact SIGSOFT History Liaison: Tao Xie

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[edit] 2000s

2011

ICSE 2011 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Honolulu, Hawaii

ESEC/FSE 2011 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Szeged, Hungary


2010

ICSE 2010 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Cape Town, South Africa

FSE 2010 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Santa Fe, New Mexico

ISSTA 2010 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Trento, Italy

PASTE 2010 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Toronto, Canada


2009

Executive Committee (2009-2012)


Revised SIGSOFT Bylaws approved revisions

  • Increase term lengths from 2 to 3 years
  • Eliminate the Secretary/Treasurer as a named elected position on the ballot
  • Increase the number of at-large members from 3 to 4


Amir Pnueli passed away

John Musa passed away


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Stuart Zweben

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Richard N. Taylor

SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award: Laurie Williams, Nico Habermann (Posthumously)


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1999): Peri Tarr, Harold Ossher, William Harrison, and Stanley M. Suttons: N Degrees of Separation: Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns, ICSE-21, 1999.

SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award: Andreas Zeller. Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?. In Proceedings of ESEC/FSE, 1999 (Listen to Andreas' Impact Award keynote here.)

SIGSOFT Impact Paper Retrospective Awards:


ACM Distinguished Educators

ACM Distinguished Engineers

ACM Distinguished Scientists


ICSE 2009 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Vancouver, Canada (Proceedings)

ESEC/FSE 2009 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Proceedings)

ISSTA 2009 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Chicago, Illinois (Proceedings)


2008

Elected ACM Officers from SIGSOFT community:


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: John C. Knight

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Axel van Lamsweerde


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1998): Peyman Oreizy, Nenad Medvidovic and Richard N. Taylor: Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution, ICSE-20, 1998.

SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award: D. S. Rosenblum and A. L. Wolf. A design framework for Internet-scale event observation and notification. In Proceedings of ESEC/FSE, 1997.

SIGSOFT Impact Paper Retrospective Awards:


ACM Fellows

  • Martin Abadi, Gregory D. Abowd, Alexander S. Aiken, Jack W. Davidson, Watts S. Humphrey, Alan C. Kay, Kathryn S. McKinley, Bertrand Meyer, John C. Mitchell, Brian Randell, Vivek Sarkar

IEEE Fellows

  • Rajeev Alur, Guang R. Gao, Michael Gschwind, Rajiv Gupta, Phillip A. Laplante, David Notkin, Anand Tripathi

ACM Distinguished Scientists

  • Yih-Farn Robin Chen, James R. Cordy, Robert J. Hall, Ernesto Damiani, Frank Tip


ACM Turing Award: Barbara H Liskov


ICSE 2008 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Leipzig, Germany

FSE 2008 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Atlanta, Georgia

ISSTA 2008 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Seattle, WA

  • General Chair: Barbara Ryder
  • Program Chair: Andreas Zeller
  • Keynote: James R. Larus. "The Real Value of Testing" Slides
  • Keynote: Ben Liblit. "Cooperative Debugging With Five Hundred Million Test Cases" Slides

PASTE 2008 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Atlanta, GA


2007

TOSEM new Editor in Chief: David Notkin


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: David Notkin

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Elaine J. Weyuker


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1997): Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco and Giovanni Vigna: Designing Distributed Applications with Mobile Code Paradigms, ICSE-19, 1997.


ACM Fellows

  • Rajeev Alur, Larry L. Constantine, Guang R. Gao, Monica S. Lam, J. Eliot B. Moss, Martin Odersky, Amir Pnueli, Philip Wadler, Mitchell Wand

IEEE Fellows

  • Bill Curtis, Mehdi Jazayeri


ACM Distinguished Scientists

  • Michael Burke, Matthew B. Dwyer, Kathleen Fisher


ACM Turing Award: Edmund M Clarke, E Allen Emerson, Joseph Sifakis

ACM Software System Award: Statemate by David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Mark Trakhtenbrot, Aron Trauring


NSF CISE Assistant Director: Jeannette M. Wing (2007-Present)


ICSE 2007 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Minneapolis, Minnesota

ESEC/FSE 2007 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Dubrovnik, Croatia

ISSTA 2007 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: London, United Kingdom

  • General Chair: David Rosenblum
  • Program Chair: Sebastian Elbaum
  • Keynote: Dawson Engler. "Making Automatic Code Destruction Easy and Scalable" Slides
  • Keynote: Tim Trew. "Chasing Rainbows: Improving Software Testing in the Real World" Slides

PASTE 2007 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: San Diego, California


2006

Joseph Goguen passed away

Ralph E. Griswold passed away


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Carlo Ghezzi

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: David Harel


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1996): No Award.


ACM Fellows

  • Arvind, Matthias Felleisen, John Guttag, Thomas A. Henzinger, James R. Larus, J Strother Moore, Peter Norvig, Alfred Z Spector, Alex Wolf

IEEE Fellows

  • Carlo Ghezzi, Thomas Henzinger, Nancy Mead, James Moore, Douglass Post, David Rosenblum, Min Xie

ACM Distinguished Engineers

  • David A Thomas, David Ungar

ACM Distinguished Scientists

  • George S. Avrunin, David F. Bacon, Hans-J. Boehm, Kathryn S McKinley, Vivek Sarkar,


ACM Turing Award: Frances E Allen

ACM Software System Award: Eiffel by Bertrand Meyer


NSF Program Manager: Alan R. Hevner (2006-2008)


ICSE 2006 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Shanghai, China

FSE 2006 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Portland, Oregon


ISSTA 2006 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Portland, ME


2005

Executive Committee (2005-2009)


A webpage for PhD Dissertations in the Area of Software Engineering was established.


The March 2003 issue of SEN was the first to be edited as partly hardcopy and partly electronic.


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Richard N. Taylor

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1995): Michael Jackson, Pamela Zave: Deriving Specifications from Requirements: An Example, ICSE-17, 1995.


ACM Fellows

  • Dines Bjorner, Keith Cooper, David Dill, Robert Harper, Brad Myers, Thomas Reps, Liu Sha

IEEE Fellows

  • Dines Bjørner, Roy Campbell, Edmund Clarke, Jeanne Ferrante, Hoang Pham, Alfred Z. Spector, Bjarne Stroustrup


ACM Turing Award: Peter Naur

ACM Software System Award: The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover by Robert S Boyer, Matt Kaufmann, J Strother Moore

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award: Ben Liblit


ICSE 2005 - International Conference on Software Engineering: St. Louis, Missouri (the first SIGSOFT-sponsored event to provide CDs to conference attendees in place of hardcopy proceedings)

ESEC/FSE 2005 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Lisbon, Portugal

PASTE 2005 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Lisbon, Portugal


2004

Frank Anger passed away; ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award was established in 2005 as a student travel award.


Computing Curriculum in Software Engineering (CCSE) was finalized


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Will Tracz

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Nancy Leveson


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1994): Robert Allen, David Garlan: Formalizing Architectural Connection, ICSE-16, 1994.


ACM Fellows

  • Luca Cardelli, Simon Peyton Jones, Peter Lee, Benjamin W. Wah, David S. Wise

IEEE Fellows

  • Pankaj Jalote, Michael Lyu, Raymond Paul, Ronald H Perrott, Mark Wegman


ICSE 2004 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

FSE 2004 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Newport Beach, CA

ISSTA 2004 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Boston, Massachusetts

PASTE 2004 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Washington, DC


2003

SIGSOFT Bylaws revisions proposed revisions

  • Increase term lengths from 2 to 3 years
  • Eliminate the Secretary/Treasurer as a named elected position on the ballot
  • Increase the number of at-large members from 3 to 4


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Axel van Lamsweerde

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Leon J. Osterweil


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1993): Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer, Anthony Finkelstein: Expressing the Relationships between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification, ICSE-15, 1993.


ACM Fellows

  • Richard DeMillo, Brent Hailpern, Mary Jean Harrold

IEEE Fellows

  • Steve Cross, Susan Eggers, H. Dieter Rombach, Leonard L. Tripp, Elaine J. Weyuker, Jeannette M. Wing, Xin Yao, Fuqing Yang


ACM Turing Award: Alan Kay

ACM Software System Award: MAKE by Stuart Feldman


ICSE 2003 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Portland, Oregon

ESEC/FSE 2003 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Helsinki, Finland


2002

Edsger Dijkstra passed away


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Lori Clarke

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Gerard Holzmann


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1992): David S. Rosenblum: Towards a Method of Programming with Assertions, ICSE-14, 1992.


ACM Fellows

  • David Culler, Susan J. Eggers, Wen-Mei Hwu

IEEE Fellows

  • Gul Agha, Vijay Vaishnavi


ACM Software System Award: Java by James A. Gosling


NSF CISE Assistant Director: Peter A. Freeman (2002-2007)

NSF Program Manager: Sol Greenspan (2002-Present)


ICSE 2002 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Orlando, Florida

FSE 2002 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Charleston, SC

ISSTA 2002 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Rome, Italy

PASTE 2002 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Charleston, South Carolina


2001

Executive Committee (2001-2005)


TOSEM new Editor in Chief: Carlo Ghezzi


The SIGSOFT Impact Project started. Executive Committee:


Robert W. Floyd passed away


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Kouichi Kishida

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Michael Jackson


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1991): Robert Balzer: Tolerating Inconsistency, ICSE-13, 1991.


ACM Fellows

  • Alan Borning, Richard B Kieburtz, Jeffrey Kramer, Barton Miller, John C. Reynolds, Zave Pamela

IEEE Fellows

  • Karl Chang, William E. Howden, Sy-Yen Kuo, Richard H. Thayer, Mladen A. Vouk


ACM Turing Award: Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard

ACM Software System Award: SPIN by Gerard Holzmann

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: Robert O'Callahan, David Wagner


ICSE 2001 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Toronto, Ontario

ESEC/FSE 2001 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Vienna, Austria

PASTE 2001 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Snowbird, Utah


2000

SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Marvin Zelkowitz

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Victor Basili


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1990): No award.


ACM Fellows

  • Randal E. Bryant, Peter A. Freeman, Axel van Lamsweerde, Albert R. Meyer, Jim Morris, Moshe Y. Vardi, David S. Warren, Reinhard Wilhelm

IEEE Fellows

  • Tom DeMarco, David Padua, Koji Torii


ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention: William Chan, Michael D. Ernst


ICSE 2000 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Limerick, Ireland

FSE 2000 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): San Diego, CA

ISSTA 2000 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Portland, Oregon


[edit] 1990s

1999

SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: William Riddle

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Niklaus Wirth, Harlan Mills (one-time posthumous)


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1989): Dewayne Perry: The Inscape Environment, ICSE-11, 1989.


ACM Fellows

  • John D. Gannon, Carlo Ghezzi, Robert Glass, Larry Masinter, David MacQueen, Mary Lou Soffa, Koji Torii

IEEE Fellows

  • Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Luqi, Rudrapatna Shyamasundar


ACM Turing Award: Frederick P. Brooks


ICSE 1999 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Los Angeles, California

ESEC/FSE 1999 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Toulouse, France,

PASTE 1999 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Toulouse, France


1998

SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Bruce Barnes

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: David Parnas


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1988): David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Aharon Shtul-Trauring: Statemate: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems, ICSE-10, 1988.


ACM Fellows

  • Gregory R Andrews, Andrew Appel, James C. Browne, Robert Cartwright, Peter P. Chen, Edmund Clarke, Lori Clarke, Richard Gabriel, James Horning, Neil Jones, David Notkin, Leon Osterweil, Barbara Ryder, Eugene Spafford, Richard Taylor, Albert J Turner, Jeannette Wing, Mihalis Yannakakis, Stuart H. Zweben

IEEE Fellows

  • Doris L. Carver, Wen-Mei Hwu, Liu Sha, Dick Simmons, Pen-Chung Yew


ICSE 1998 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Kyoto, Japan

FSE 1998 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Lake Buena Vista, FL

ISSTA 1998 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Clearwater Beach, Florida

PASTE 1998 - ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering: Montreal, Canada


1997

Executive Committee (1997-2001)


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Peter Neumann

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award: Barry Boehm


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1987):


ACM Fellows

  • Victor Basili, Barry Boehm, Yuri Gurevich, John L Hennessy, Richard Kemmerer, Richard Lipton, Nancy Lynch, Ronald H Perrott, Vaughan Pratt, Alan C. Shaw, Elaine Weyuker

IEEE Fellows

  • Ram Chillarege, Anita Jones, Eric Kronstadt, Marvin Zelkowitz


ICSE 1997 - International Conference on Software Engineering:

ESEC/FSE 1997 - joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Zurich, Switzerland


1996

SIGSOFT Logo

  • The executive committee selected a logo for SIGSOFT. This logo uses a mobius strip to represent the "S" in SOFT, signifying the often convoluted, ever evolving software engineering process. Sandy Wise proposed the original concept, which was then refined by a design artist.

SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Rick Adrion


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1985): Sam Redwine Jr., William Riddle: Software Technology Maturation, ICSE-8, 1985.


ACM Fellows

  • Rick Adrion, Alfred V. Aho, Jeanne Ferrante, Dennis J. Frailey, Anita K. Jones, Barbara H Liskov, Ravi Sethi, Mary Shaw, Tony Wasserman, Mark Wegman

IEEE Fellows

  • Peter Freeman, Harold Lawson, Jr., Jeffrey Tsai, Tony Wasserman


ACM Turing Award: Amir Pnueli


Harlan Mills passed away


ICSE 1996 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Berlin, Germany

FSE 1996 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): San Francisco, CA

ISSTA 1996 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: San Diego, California


1995

SIGSOFT Conference Attendance Program for Students (CAPS)

  • a scholarship fund initiated for providing travel funds to students to attend SIGSOFT sponsored conferences.


TOSEM new Editor in Chief: Axel van Lamsweerde


SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award: Tony Wasserman


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1984): David L. Parnas, Paul C. Clements, David M. Weiss: The Modular Structure of Complex Systems, ICSE-7, 1984.


ACM Fellows

  • Paul Abrahams, Robert L. Ashenhurst, Lawrence Bernstein, Grady Booch, Larry E. Druffel, Stuart Feldman, John Goodenough, Ken Kennedy, Nancy Leveson, Fred B. Schneider, Larry Snyder, Norihisa Suzuki, Jeffrey Ullman, Chris S. Wallace, Peter Wegner

IEEE Fellows

  • Arvind, Brent Hailpern, Ken Kennedy


ACM Turing Award: Manuel Blum


NSF Program Manager: Frank Anger (1995-2004) passed away in 2004


ICSE 1995 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Seattle, Washington

FSE 1995 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Washington, DC


1994

ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1982): Sol Greenspan, John Mylopoulos, Alex Borgida: Capturing More World Knowledge in the Requirements Specification, ICSE-6, 1982.


ACM Fellows

  • Frances E. Allen, Frederick P. Brooks, Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd, Frank L. Friedman, Adele J. Goldberg, Susan Graham, David J. Gries, David Harel, John Hopcroft, Ronald M Kaplan, Donald E. Knuth, Manny Lehman, Joyce Currie Little, Zohar Manna, John McCarthy, Robin Milner, Roger M. Needham, Peter G. Neumann, John Ousterhout, Susan S. Owicki, David L. Parnas, Jean Sammet, Dana S. Scott, Herbert A. Simon, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Bjarne Stroustrup, Gerald J. Sussman, Andries van Dam, Niklaus E. Wirth, William A. Wulf

IEEE Fellows

  • Wen-Tsuen Chen, Alan Davis


ICSE 1994 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Sorrento, Italy

FSE 1994 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): New Orleans, LA

ISSTA 1994 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Seattle, WA


1993

Executive Committee (1993-1997)


Nico Habermann passed away; later CRA established CRA A. Nico Habermann Award to honor him.


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1981): Mark Weiser: Program Slicing, ICSE-5, 1981.


IEEE Fellows

  • Michael A. Harrison, Norman Schneidewind


Nico Habermann passed away


ICSE 1993 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Baltimore, Maryland

FSE 1993 - ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Los Angeles, CA (the first SIGSOFT FSE sympoisum) (Proceedings)

ISSTA 1993 - International Symposium on Software Testing & Analysis: Cambridge, MA


1992

Allen Newell passed away.


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1979): Walter Tichy: Software Development Control Based on Module Interconnection, ICSE-4, 1979.


IEEE Fellows

  • Barry W. Boehm, Larry Snyder


ACM Software System Award: Interlisp by Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald M. Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award: Kenneth McMillan

TOSEM first issue Jan 1992


ICSE 1992 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Melbourne, Australia

SIGSOFT 1992/5SDE - Symposium on Software Development Environments: Washington DC

  • General Chair: Ian Thomas
  • Program Chair: Herbert Weber

1991

ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1978): David Parnas: Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction, ICSE-3, 1978.


IEEE Fellows

  • Frances Allen, Stuart Feldman, John L. Hennessy, Jack Minker, William E. Riddle, Larry Druffel


ACM Turing Award: Robin Milner


ICSE 1991 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Austin, Texas

  • General Chair: Les Belady
  • Program Chairs: David Barstow, Koji Torii

TAV 1991 (later ISSTA) - Symposium on Testing, Analysis, and Verification: Victoria, Canada

SIGSOFT 1991 - SIGSOFT Symposium on Critical Systems: New Orleans


1990

Alan Perlis passed away


SIGSOFT NOTES Front Matter includes an article on the origin of SIGSOFT, etc. by Tony I. Wasserman on "Letter from the First Chairman"

ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1976): William A. Wulf, Ralph L. London, Mary Shaw: An Introduction to the Construction and Verification of Alphard Programs, ICSE-2, 1976.


IEEE Fellows

  • Victor Basili


Edsger W. Dijkstra's 60th Birthday. See David Gries' Remarks at the Celebration Banquet (the end of SIGSOFT Notes Front Matter)


ICSE 1990 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Nice, France

SIGSOFT 1990/SDE4 - SIGSOFT 4th Symposium on Software Development Environments:

  • General Chair:
  • Program Chair:


[edit] 1980s

1989

Executive Committee (1989-1993)


ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award (for 1975): Marc J. Rochkind: The Source Code Control System, NCSE-1, 1975.


IEEE Fellows

  • Amrit Goel, William Wulf


ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award: Vijay Saraswat


Minutes for the Joint ACM SIGSOFT/IEEE TCSE Meeting (Front Matter, Pages 2-3)


ICSE 1989 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

SIGSOFT 1989/TAV-3 (later ISSTA) - Symposium on Software Testing, Analysis, and Verification: Key West, Florida


1988

IEEE Fellows

  • Alfred V. Aho, Laszlo A. (Les) Belady, Fred Liguori


Minutes for the Joint ACM SIGSOFT/IEEE TCSE Meeting (Front Matter, Pages 2-3)

  • TOSEM approved by ACM


ICSE 1988 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Raffles City, Singapore

SIGSOFT 1988/SDE3 - SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments: Boston, MA (first annual SIGSOFT Symposium)

  • General Chair: Peter Henderson
  • Program Chair: Barry Boehm


1987

Executive Committee (1987-1989)


IEEE Fellows

  • John D. Musa


ACM Software System Award: Smalltalk by Adele Goldberg, Daniel H.H. Ingalls, Alan C. Kay


ICSE 1987 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Monterey, California

  • General Chair: William E. Riddle
  • Program Chairs: Robert Balzer, Kouichi Kishida


1986

IEEE Fellows

  • Manny Lehman


ACM Turing Award: John Hopcroft

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award: David Ungar


1985

Executive Committee (1985-1987)


IEEE Fellows

  • Per Brinch Hansen, David J. Kuck


Joint Meeting of the SIGSOFT Executive Committee and the IEEE Computer Society TCSE Executive Board (Front Matter, Page 5)


ICSE 1985 - International Conference on Software Engineering: London, UK

International Workshop on the Software Process and Software Environments: Trabuco Canyon, California

  • Workshop Chair: Jack C. Wileden
  • Program Chair: Mark Dowson


VERkshop III - A Formal Verification Workshop: Watsonville, California


1984

ACM Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth


Meeting of ACM/SIGSOFT Executive Committee and IEEE Computer Society/TCSE Executive Board (Front Matter, Page 10)


ICSE 1984 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Orlando, Florida


1983

Executive Committee (1983-1985)


IEEE Fellows

  • Manuel Blum


ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award: Thomas W. Reps


Joint Meeting of the SIGSOFT Executive Committee and the IEEE Computer Society TCSE Executive Board (Front Matter, Page 10)


ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Software Engineering Symposium on High-level Debugging


1982

ICSE 1982 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Tokyo, Japan

  • General Chairs: Yutaka Ohno, Koji Kobayashi, Raymond T. Yeh
  • Program Chairs: Victor R. Basili, Hajime Enomoto

Second SIGSOFT Software Engineerin Symposium/Workshop on Rapid Prototyping: Columbia, Maryland

  • General Chair: Marvin Zelkowitz, Martha Branstad
  • Program Chair: Stephen L. Squires


1981

Executive Committee (1981-1983)


ICSE 1981 - International Conference on Software Engineering: San Diego, California

  • General Chair: Seymour Jeffrey
  • Program Chair: Leon G. Stucki
  • Keynote: Klaus Wirth. "What Next After Pascal?"
  • Keynote: D. Glaser. "Design Lessons from Nature"
  • Conference report (Front Matter, Pages 6-9)

SIGSOFT Sponsored Symposium on Tool and Methodology Evaluation: Pingree Park, Colorado (the first SIGSOFT Software Engineering Symposium)

VERkshop II - A Formal Verification Workshop


1980

SIGSOFT Software Engineering Symposia Guideline (Front Matter, Pages 4-5)

First Formal Guidelines on Organizing the ICSEs (Front Matter, Page 5)


ACM Turing Award: C. Antony R. Hoare


NBS Workshop on Programming Environments

VERkshop I - A Formal Verification Workshop


[edit] 1970s

1979

Executive Committee (1979-1981)


ACM Turing Award: Kenneth E. Iverson


ICSE 1979 - International Conference on Software Engineering: München, Germany (the first ICSE co-sponsored by SIGSOFT)

Conference on Specifications for Reliable Software (by IEEE TOSE in cooperation with SIGSOFT): Cambridge MA


1978

Executive Committee (1978-1979)


IEEE Fellows

  • CV Ramamoorthy


ACM Turing Award: Robert W. Floyd

ICSE 1978 - International Conference on Software Engineering: Atlanta, Georgia

Software Quality Assurance Workshop (co-sponsored with SIGMETRICS): San Diego, California

  • General Chair: A. C. (Toni) Shetler
  • Program Chair: Clint Woodworth


1977

Successful conversion from SICSOFT to SIGSOFT as of July 1, 1977, approved by ACM SIG/SIC Board

  • SIGSOFT: Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
  • SICSOFT: Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering


"Is software engineering a fad?" SICSOFT Chair's Message (Front Matter, Page 3)

An excerpt from a letter from Tony Hoare to Harlan Mills follows on the subject of research on software methodology (Front Matter, Pages 5-6)


ACM Turing Award: John Backus


Conference on Language Design for Reliable Software (co-sponored with SIGPLAN and SIGOPS): Raleigh, North Carolina


1976

SICSOFT officially approved (the official birth of SICSOFT/SIGSOFT)

  • SICSOFT: Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering

Executive Committee (1976-1978)

Executive Committee (initially 1976)


The first issue of SICSOFT/SIGSOFT SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes


SICSOFT Business Meeting (Front Matter, Page 4)


ICSE 1976 - International Conference on Software Engineering: San Francisco, California (the first ICSE co-sponsored by ACM)

  • General Chair: Raymond T. Yeh
  • Program Chair: C.V. Ramamoorthy
  • The conference was renamed to 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and was sponsored by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, and National Bureau of Standards


1975

See Tony I. Wasserman's SIGSOFT NOTES Front Matter "Letter from the First Chairman" for the original text where the information below is extracted.

In 1975, IEEE Computer Society created a Technical Committee on Software Engineering and began publication of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, with Raymond Yeh as TC Chairman and TCSE Editor-in-Chief.

Working with Stockton Gaines, then Chairman of SIGOPS, Tony I. Wasserman drafted a letter and a petition in support of an ACM Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering. They co-chaired an organizational meeting at the International Conference on Reliable Software in Spring, 1975, attended by about 80 people. Jean Sammet, then President of ACM, attended the meeting and subsequently supported the formation of SICSOFT in a letter to David Brandin, then Chairman of the SIG/SIC Board. (At the time, SIGs started as Special Interest Committees until they became "proven").

Ms. Sammet appointed Thomas B. Steel, Jr. as Chairman of SICSOFT, and Tony I. Wasserman became Vice Chairman. Mr. Steel was very busy with his professional responsibilities and was unable to devote time to SICSOFT; he eventually resigned in 1976, at which time Tony I. Wasserman became Chairman. Their proposal to convert to a SIG was approved the following year. Tony I. Wasserman became the first elected Chairman of SIGSOFT, serving until 1979.


NCSE 1975 - 1st National Conference on Software Engineering: Washington DC (the first ICSE, formerly NCSE)

  • General Chairs: Harlan Mills and Dennis Fife
  • Program Chair: Thomas Steel
  • The first conference was called 1st National Conference on Software Engineering (NCSE) and was sponsored by the National Bureau of Standards and the IEEE Computer Society


1974

ACM Turing Award: Donald E. Knuth


1973

Tony I. Wasserman wrote a letter to Peter Denning, then ACM President, in September, 1973, proposing a Special Interest Group on Programming (or Programming Methodology). See Tony I. Wasserman'sSIGSOFT NOTES Front Matter "Letter from the First Chairman"

IEEE Fellows

  • Stephen S. Yau


1972

IEEE Fellows

  • Watts S. Humphrey


ACM Turing Award: E.W. Dijkstra


1971


1970

The second NATO Software Engineering Conference (Report) (Photographs)


IEEE Fellows

  • Heinz Zemanek


1968

The first NATO Software Engineering Conference (Report) (Photographs)


IEEE Fellows

  • Marvin Minsky


1966

ACM Turing Award: A.J. Perlis

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