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Fri, 16 Dec 2005
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):
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. [/ucirvine/papers] permanent link Wed, 08 Sep 2004Tell Adobe to bring FrameMaker back to OS X! Participate in an Adobe Survey on FrameMaker. As someone who has been addicted to Frame for a number of years now and uses a Mac, I'd strongly suggest that all Mac OS X users tell Adobe that you want to see FrameMaker brought back to OS X as a native app. The survey runs until September 10th, so act now! I can't even express how happy that'd make me. FrameMaker is so superior to Word, it isn't even funny. As a writer, FrameMaker just makes intuitive sense and there still aren't any comparable solutions out there. (KWrite with KDE comes close, but still isn't really a viable option.) More info on FM on Mac: How to influence Adobe. [/ucirvine/papers] permanent link Mon, 03 May 2004Are wildcard imports harmful in Java? I got into a discussion the other day with a colleague who thinks that fully qualified import Java statements are a horrible idea and that all packages should be imported via the .* idiom (i.e. import java.util.List vs. java.util.*). My personal experience has been that this is a bad idea as the .'s make it almost impossible to understand the class hierarchy when you try to read the code. I've also been bitten a number of times by inadvertent class collisions. Can anyone shed some light on what the *current recommended practice is? Has the Java community (perhaps the OSS Java community) settled upon an accepted modus operandi for doing imports? Beers to people at the next ApacheCon if they can shed some light on this. And, yes, I realize this could be a bikeshed, but I don't care... [/ucirvine/papers] permanent link Thu, 08 Apr 2004Our paper got accepted into WICSA. This means that I'll be heading to Norway in mid-June. Any suggestions on what I should do? I'm considering going to at least one other country while I'm there (current thought is England). I'm on a relatively tight budget and spending anything beyond two weeks in Europe just won't work out that well logistically. [/ucirvine/papers] permanent link Wed, 14 Jan 2004Saw the PhD Topic Generator on Bambino's Curse, and put in F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and got this:
You should have seen our real list of suggested titles! (Hayek will probably end up as a citation in the proposal we're working on now.) [/ucirvine/papers] permanent link |
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