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[ June 6, 2010 to June 8, 2010. ]  

June 6: Social Day

June 7-8: Board Meeting

In June 2009, the Software Architecture Challenges in the 21st Century Workshop sponsored by IEEE Software, University of Southern California, and University of California Irvine attracted quite a bit of interest. Pekka Abrahamsson, Philippe Kruchten, and Grady Booch all addressed the role of sotware architecture and architecting in agile software development. I ended up writing an editorial [...]

In a previous blog, I talked about five common mistakes authors make when trying to get an article accepted for publication in peer-reviewed software engineering journals, magazines, or proceedings. The full list includes ten common mistakes, as follows:
Number 10. Ignore reviewer feedback.
Number 9. Stick to clichés.
Number 8. Borrow without giving due credit.
Number 7. Don’t worry about [...]

Back in March, I gave a presentation to the IEEE Student Chapter at the Université du Québec à Montreal on publishing software engineering articles in peer-reviewed venues. In that presentation, I talked about the common sins prospective authors commit when trying to get a technical article accepted by a peer-reviewed publication. This post gives a synopsis of those sins.

[ June 5, 2009; ]  

Los Alamitos, CA

This is the pre-meeting social/jelling day for the annual board meeting of IEEE Software. We will probably go to Laguna Beach, or so I hope

[ June 8, 2009; ]

Held at the University of Southern California, Center for Systems and Software Engineering

IEEE-Software-USC-UCI Joint Workshop on Software Architecture
This is a workshop sponsored by IEEE Software, USC-CSSE, and University of California, Irvine

The tentative theme is Software Architecture Challenges in the 21st Century, with the tagline…
A workshop for industry leaders, researchers, and educators who are addressing the [...]

[ June 6, 2009 to June 7, 2009. ]  

IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA

2009 Annual Board Meeting of IEEE Software