ICSE 2006 paper accepted

Our paper about PACE got accepted into the main research track at ICSE 2006. Only 36 papers were accepted into the main track out of 395 submissions (9% acceptance rate). With perhaps three software architecture slots open (ICSE is a general software engineering conference, so the competition in any particular focus is brutal), this is very good news.

We now figure that our group is producing an ICSE paper every two years since 2000 (and many more before that too):

• Roy with REST in 2000
• Eric with xADL in 2002
• Rohit with DECENT/ARRESTED in 2004
• Girish and myself with PACE in 2006

You can read Dick Taylor's full DBLP entry for more. Nice company.

Combined with our recent IEEE Internet Computing PACE article, we should be able to produce some nice buzz about PACE.

Since I'm the webmaster for this conference and I'm under a grant, I was already planning to go. Unfortunately, Girish says he won't be able to make it to China due to visa issues; barring any change of heart on his part (he's the first author), this means that I'll be presenting the paper. Along the lines of his earlier comments, Girish's first remark after telling me to stop teasing him was along the lines of, "Darn. I can't make this paper a tech report now." Hah!

Regardless of how scary that presentation will be to give, this certainly made my week.

I'll likely have the full list of papers from the program chairs next week and will get them on the ICSE website shortly thereafter. I'll be curious to see who else has their papers accepted.

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Looking closer at Under Pressure?

Perhaps I'm just over-analyzing, but Zales is running a spot on TV featuring David Bowie and Queen's Under Pressure.

They repeat the bass line and the words "under pressure"; but it's the next verse that they don't say which causes me to raise my eyebrowse everytime I watch this ad:

Under pressure that brings a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets

That's certainly not the image they should want to convey to someone proposing marriage!

The song concludes with:

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night
And loves (People on streets) dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

Great stuff. It's just not what I'd choose to use for an ad for diamonds and love for one person...It just misses the whole point of the lyrics.

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