Forum for Academic Software Engineering Volume 05, Number 06, Wed Mar 1 09:34:30 CST 1995 Topics: Miscellany Call for participation in Ethics Workshop 33rd ACM Southeast Conference Catalog of Software Quality Books Available Book: Designing and Building Parallel Programs Requirements Engineering MailingList CFP: IEEE Intl Conf on Engr of Complex Computer Systems SSR'95 A------------------------------------------------------- From: Keith Pierce Subject: Miscellany Gleaned from several issues of Edupage and Infosys. Universities have gotten some bad press recently: --> From Edupage 2/7/95: INDUSTRY/ACADEME: NO MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN Although businesses that collaborate with universities on projects report 59% higher productivity than competitors, it's a partnership that's fraught with conflict, according to a Coopers & Lybrand study. More than half of the companies surveyed reported problems, including: a faculty culture not receptive to business; lack of interest on the part of academicians in designing programs and resources for business; insensitivity to growth-oriented goals; and inappropriate course material for employee training. (Investor's Business Daily 2/6/95 A4) --> From Edupage 2/21/95 "MORE PRACTICE, LESS THEORY," SAY SOFTWARE COMPANIES Software companies say American universities are turning out students with little practical training applicable to the real world of software code writing. "There's no reason why a class can't build a whole operating system in a semester. But that rarely happens," says an Oracle Corp. senior VP. But educators contend that a broader approach is more beneficial over time: "Employers encourage students to get very narrow, very deep experience that meets their company's current needs, but in the long run breadth is better," says a computer science prof at the University of California at Berkeley. The University of Illinois is experimenting with letting 10% of its computer science majors tackle a commercial project during their senior year. (Wall Street Journal 2/21/95 B1) EMPLOYERS GIVE SCHOOLS VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE A U.S. Census Bureau national survey has found that American employers think that schools and colleges are doing a poor job preparing their graduates for the workplace. Some companies no longer hire brand-new graduates for career-track positions, and to fill their own corporate training needs are much more likely to look to equipment vendors or private consultants than to formal educational institutions. (New York Times 2/20/95 A1) --> From Edupage 2/9/95 MORE TEXTBOOKS ON THE NET Simon & Schuster is turning to the Web to market its products. The Information Superlibrary will display 1,400 computer book titles to peruse and purchase, and a second WWW site will offer college textbook catalogues, sample chapters, free software supplements, and a guide to Prentice Hall books on the Internet. To find out more, call 212-698-7000. (The Heller Report Feb.'95 p.11) --> From INFOSYS v2 n4 ANNOUNCEMENT - Free CASE Tool Somendra Pant We have developed an information systems analysis and design method and implemented it in a CASE tool suite. Since this effort is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation as well as some industrial corporations, we would like to make the results available to the academic community at large. The software file and the documentation, along with the related publications, can be retrieved from this Web site (URL): http://viu.eng.rpi.edu/ All information that is needed to understand and use the system is also available from the home page. For more information, contact: Cheng Hsu Associate Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590 hsuc@rpi.edu A------------------------------------------------------- From: Don Gotterbarn Subject: Call for participation in Ethics Workshop WORKSHOP A Tool Kit of Computer Ethics Activities for Computer Science Classes June 16th, 1995 Baltimore, Maryland A full day research and development workshop will be held in conjunction with the National Educational Computing Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on June 16th, 1995. The workshop will be devoted to the development and collection of materials and techniques that have been used to teach computer ethics issues within traditional computer science classes. Various activities, such as case studies, role playing, assigned essays, debates, reports, analysis of ethical issues in technical assignments, etc. have been used in all levels of computer science classes. This workshop will consider how to give students appropriate experiences in computer ethics in the context of various technical computer science courses. The workshop will examine activities that have been used successfully. The goal of the workshop is to develop a collection of these activities. This collection will be made available to other faculty members in various formats. It is the organizer's hope that this material can be collected into a monograph. This monograph can be used as a resource of successful ethics activities by other faculty members to introduce ethics into their classes. Selected articles will be published in the SIGCAS Newsletter. At the very least, the collection will be published electronically. Participants in the workshop will be selected based on a three to four page paper that is due to the workshop organizer by April 1, 1995. The paper should describe one specific activity including: its purpose, its educational objectives, its content, how it is presented, the assignment as it is handed out to the students, the computer science course in which it is used, and how it is evaluated. Those selected will be asked to submit an expanded paper at the workshop. The expanded paper should elaborate on the original paper and include additional activities, if possible. The collection of selected papers, and invited presentations will be developed after the workshop. Additional papers may be included from those unable to attend the workshop. There is no charge for the workshop; however, participants are expected to register for NECC '95. For further information or to submit a paper contact: Donald Gotterbarn, Computer and Information Sciences East Tennessee State University Box 70711 Johnson City, Tennessee 37614-0711 email- gotterba@etsu.East-Tenn-St.edu fax - 615-461-7119; phone 615-929-6849 W. Robert Collins; The College of William and Mary Robert Riser; East Tennessee State University Keith Miller, Sangamon State University,NECC'95 PROGRAM CHAIR A------------------------------------------------------- From: mark@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mark Smotherman) Subject: 33rd ACM Southeast Conference 33rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference Clemson, South Carolina March 17-18, 1995 The ACM Southeast Conference provides an annual forum during which educators, practitioners, and students gather to discuss current practical, experimental, theoretical and educational developments in the field of computing. The 1995 conference will be held on March 17-18 (Friday and Saturday) at Clemson University. Registration and the first day's events will be at the Clemson House on North Palmetto Boulevard. Some of the highlights are: Keynote speaker Jim Rothnie, Vice President for Software Development, Data General Corporation. Dr. Rothnie will provide his views on how well computer science programs are preparing graduates to meet industry's needs from the perspective of one who has held several executive positions with several companies, including a vice president at Kendall Research in addition to his position at Data General. Luncheon speaker Alan Biermann, Professor of Computer Science, Duke University. Dr. Biermann is the author of ``Great Ideas in Computer Science'', and more recently he has been developing course materials and computer software for teaching computing concepts to non-computing majors as part of the general education requirements in colleges and universities. Panel sessions There will be a panel on Ada in the undergraduate curriculum. Efforts are underway to have a panel on practical experiences with object-oriented design in industry. Student paper competition Student papers will be presented on Friday and Saturday morning. The awards for best student papers will be given at the luncheon on Saturday. Technical papers Refereed technical papers and work in progress reports will be presented on both days. Session V-A on Computer Science Education will be held on Saturday morning. Further information is available: www: http://www.cs.clemson.edu/ACM gopher: gopher club.cs.clemson.edu Choose 'Dept FTP Site', then choose 'ACM'. ftp: ftp ftp.cs.clemson.edu cd ACM get conference_information get conference_program get conference_registration email: mail mark@cs.clemson.edu -- Mark Smotherman, Computer Science Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC A------------------------------------------------------- From: sqegelp@aol.com (SQE Gelp) Subject: Catalog of Software Quality Books Available The latest version of the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on current software test and evaluation books and materials is now available. For a free catalog, contact: SingleSource Manager Software Quality Engineering 3000-2 Hartley Road Jacksonville, FL 32257 Voice: 800-423-TEST (8378) Fax: 904-268-0733 E-mail: info@sqe.com A------------------------------------------------------- From: kathleeb@aw.com (Kathleen Billus) Subject: Book: Designing and Building Parallel Programs DESIGNING AND BUILDING PARALLEL PROGRAMS by Ian Foster ISBN: 0-201-57594-9 400 pp Hardcover Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995 DESCRIPTION Designing and Building Parallel Programs is a practitioner's guide to the programming of parallel and distributed computer systems. It provides a comprehensive introduction to parallel algorithm design, performance analysis, and program construction. It describes the tools needed to write parallel programs and provides numerous examples. ONLINE VERSION A unique feature is the companion on-line version, accessible via the World Wide Web using browsers such as Mosaic at URL: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/ The on-line version provides a convenient hypertext version of the text with pointers to programming tools, example programs, and other resources on parallel and distributed computing. FEATURES * Shows how to design parallel programs in a methodical fashion and how to analyze and improve program performance. * Introduces modern parallel languages, including Compositional C++ and Fortran M, that enable you to develop programs easily and efficiently. * Describes the parallel programming standards High Performance Fortran (HPF) and Message Passing Interface (MPI). * Presents different tools for collecting and analyzing parallel program performance data. * Provides numerous bibliographic references so that you can further explore special areas of interest. * Explains how parallel programming can assist in a broad range of applications, from circuit design to climate modeling. * Includes many examples and exercises to expand upon concepts introduced in the book. AVAILABILITY * Wherever technical books are sold. * For direct orders to Addison-Wesley, please call 1-800-822-6339 and have your credit card handy. * To be included on the Addison-Wesley on-line information server, please send an email message to awbook@aw.com. The subject line should be 'information' and the body of the message should be 'send information'. Adding your name to this listing will enable us to keep you informed of all new titles. A------------------------------------------------------- From: didar@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Didar Zowghi) Subject: Requirements Engineering MailingList SRE MAILING LIST: SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING The SRE mailing list aims to act as a forum for exchange of ideas among the requirements engineering researchers and practitioners. The list is a free service which is offered by the CSIRO-Macquarie University Joint Research Centre for Advanced Systems Engineering (JRCASE) at Macquarie University, Sydney. Requirements engineering has proved to be a vital part of any system life cycle. Many believe that while much has been achieved for improving and automating the software development process, capture, analysis and specification of user requirements remain a relatively untouched area. Although there has been a number of conferences and workshops on requirements in the last few years, there is a lack of discussion groups and interest groups on the network. We hope that this mailing list will serve as a discussion group for software requirements engineering, which can be used as a medium for sharing ideas and for the creation of future conferences and workshops. To subscribe to SRE mailing list, e-mail listproc@jrcase.mq.edu.au with the only line in the body of the message: subscribe SRE your-first-name your-second-name Articles to the SRE mailing list should be sent to SRE@jrcase.mq.edu.au. 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A------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael.Hinchey@cl.cam.ac.uk (Michael Hinchey) Subject: CFP: IEEE Intl Conf on Engr of Complex Computer Systems [ED: If you want to receive the entire text of the conference announcement, send email to fase-request@d.umn.edu with the SUBJECT "send ICECCS95" (without the quotes)] This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline for ICECCS'95 is fast approaching. Your support is greatly appreciated, and we should be very grateful if you would kindly promote the conference (and in particular advertise the deadline) in your TC/TF/Committee newsletter. ICECCS'95 First IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Southern Florida, USA, November 6--10, 1995 Held jointly with 5th CSESAW, 3rd IEEE RTAW and 20th IFAC/IFIP WRTP [Long announcement deleted...] A------------------------------------------------------- From: zand@unocss.unomaha.edu (Mansour Zand) Subject: SSR'95 [ED: To receive the full text of this announcement, send email to fase-request@d.umn.edu with the subject line "send SSR95" (without the quotes).] PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION ACM-SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR'95) April 28-30, 1995 Co-Located with 17th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, ICSE-17 April 23-30, 1995 Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA [Very long announcement deleted...] For further information, contact Mansur Samadzadeh (phone 405.744.5674, email samad@a.cs.okstate.edu). 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