Associate Professor of Informatics Sam Malek (PI) and Assistant Project Scientist Hamid Bagheri (Co-PI) have been awarded $499,170 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research on “Efficient Formal Analysis of Evolving Software Systems.” The three-year award comes from the NSF’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, which supports research and education projects that explore the foundations of computing and communication devices and their usage.
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Lopes, grad students win Best Paper Award at ICSME 2016
Informatics Professor Crista Lopes and two of her graduate students, Vaibhav Saini and Hitesh Sajnani, just won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016) for their paper, “Comparing Quality Metrics for Cloned and Non-Cloned Java Methods: A Large Scale Empirical Study.”
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NSF awards Malek $130K for project to create an infrastructure for software architecture research
Associate Professor of Informatics Sam Malek (PI) and Assistant Project Scientist Joshua Garcia (Co-PI) have been awarded $130,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research on “Planning and Prototyping a Community-Wide Software Architecture Instrument.” This is a joint two-year project with the University of Southern California and Rochester Institute of Technology. The award comes from the NSF’s Division of Computing and Network Systems, which supports research and education activities that invent new computing and networking technologies and that explore new ways to make use of existing technologies.
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Tomlinson to speak at University of Toronto Nov. 17
October 6, 2016
Informatics Professor Bill Tomlinson will speak about “Computing, Sustainability and Global Disruption” as part of the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series on Nov. 17, 2016. Tomlinson’s talk will discuss his recent work in bringing computational tools to bear on problems of sustainability and disruption; in particular, describing a current research effort that seeks to enable a new approach to sustainable food security.
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