September
25, 2000
On Monday, September 25,
2000, the NJCSE held a Research Review at Stevens Institute of Technology. New Jersey
firms involved in the production of software that have an interest in becoming Corporate
Affiliates of the NJCSE were invited to participate. Representatives of four of the five
invited firms attended. Prof. Larry Bernstein, Senior Industry Professor Stevens Institute
and Director of NJCSE convened the meeting at 2:00PM.
The meeting resulted in identifying
potential areas of collaboration between university researches as well as with companies.
There was an interesting synergy among most of those attending in the technical areas of
distributing computing in a reliable and safe environment. The alignment between the needs
of industry and the work of the center was particularly satisfying. Teaming arrangements
are now being explored.
Corporate participants included:
University participants included:
Prof. Larry
Bernstein, lbernste@stevens.edu, lbernstein@ieee.org
Prof. Adriana
Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology, abc@cs.stevens.edu
Prof. Dominic
Duggan,
Stevens Institute of Technology, dduggan@cs.stevens.edu
Prof. James Geller, New
Jersey Institute of Technology, geller@homer.njit.edu
Prof. David
Klappholz,
Stevens Institute of Technology, david@cs.stevens.edu,
d.klappholz@worldnet.att.net
Prof. Naftaly
Minsky,
Rutgers University, minsky@cs.rutgers.edu
Prof. David Naumann,
Stevens Institute of Technology, naumann@cs.stevens.edu
Prof. Richard
Scherl,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, scherl@homer.njit.edu
The meeting began with a short
discussion of NJCSE initiatives currently underway; these include:
Research reviews for the purpose of
engendering industry support for university research, joint industry/university research,
and transfer of technology to industry
Co-sponsorship with NJ Technology
Council of NJ Information Technology Leadership Meeting (December 12, 2000 at Stevens
Institute of Technology)
Close collaboration, as a University
Affiliate, with Dr. Barry Boehm's University of Southern California Center for Software
Engineering on dissemination of software engineering (Spiral Model, Easy Win-Win, COCOMO)
process and technology
Service on Board of Review of
IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
Formulation of professional software
engineering objections to UCITA now under consideration in the NJ State Senate
Co-sponsorship, with Stevens CS Dept.
and Stevens Career Development Office, of a CS Career Opportunities Program for the
Stevens, Rutgers, and NJIT communities. The program took place at Stevens on
October 18. Representatives from New Jersey offices of Andersen Consulting, BAE Systems,
Societe Generale, Telcordia, and a number of additional firms
participated.
It continued with a summary of
near-future NJCSE initiatives in which affiliates are encouraged to participate;
specifically:
NJCSE will sponsor a Junior and
Senior CS-Major Software Project Showcase to enable potential employers (of summer interns
or full-time employees) to better evaluate potential hires. Stevens, Rutgers, and NJIT
students will present their projects in Software Engineering, Senior Project, and other
courses. Faculty will be on hand for consultation. The first such program will be run in
early 2001.
NJCSE solicits industrial
"customers" for student Software Engineering course projects. Some of the most
successful Software Engineering courses, including those at the University of Southern
California and Carnegie Mellon University require that students' semester-long or
year-long projects have "real" customers. The fact that New Jersey is a major
center for software technology, especially telecommunications-related software technology,
and that New Jersey is very close to "Silicon Alley," promises to provide
Stevens, Rutgers, and NJIT Software Engineering students with very "real"
experiences; it promises to provide participating firms with early access to the best New
Jersey students.
NJCSE will sponsor short (one- and
two-day) and long (week-long and full-semester) courses on software engineering seminars
by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field.
Finally, researchers from Stevens,
Rutgers, and NJIT presented their current research interests and results. Abstracts of
these presentations follow.
At NJIT
James Geller and Richard Scherl: "Representation of Knowledge
about Populations of Customers"
James Geller and Yehoshua Perl: "Web Search for extracting Interest Areas"
At Rutgers
Naftaly Minsky: "A Scalable Mechanism for
Enterprise-Wide Access Control"
At Stevens
Dominic Duggan: "Research on Wide Area Network
Programming Languages"
David Naumann: "Modular Verification of
Extensible Software Components"
David Klappholz and Larry
Bernstein: "Experimental Research on Software Engineering Process, Technology, and
Pedagogy"
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