Bill Scherlis

Current Research

Leader: Fluid Project -- Analysis-based software assurance and evolution (Tim Halloran, Dean Sutherland, Greg Hartman, Aaron Greenhouse, John Boyland)
Project lead: Artifact-Based Software Assurance CMU CyLab

15-214 Principles of Software System Construction (Spring 2012) the OO course. See course page. [with Jonathan Aldrich]
17-791 Software Research Seminar (SSSG) (Spring 2012) (schedule) [with all the SE faculty]

NITRD 20th Anniversary Symposium: Software, Scale, Strategy (2012).
National Research Council: Advancing software-intensive systems producibility for the DoD (chair): Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense (2010, just released). Also an early workshop report, Uncertainty at Scale (2007) and a letter report, DoD Software Research Needs (2008), now OBE.
Atlantic G-20 Conference: Software: the endless value spiral (or as a separate PDF) in the conference proceedings (2009)
DARPA ISAT study group member (1993-1998, 2003-2006)
National Research Council: Improving Cybersecurity research (2007)
Editorial board: Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (since 2005)
Congressional testimony: The role of government in IT R&D (official written testimony, draft of spoken testimony, overall hearing, CRA blog report, July 2004)
The role for ICT in sustainable development? (World Bank meeting Nov 2003, Bangalore meeting Jan 2004)
National Research Council: Study on E-government (chair): Crisis Management, Federal statistics, Final report, 2002
Congressional testimony: Should there be a Federal CIO? (September 2000 hearings)
National Cancer Institute: The Internet and cancer trials (wrap-up of an NCI long-range planning committee for informatics, 2002)
PITAC report to the President on government information technology (Aug 2000).
National Research Council: What to do about Ada? (1997)
National Research Council: Crisis management and IT (1996)

Harvard Business Review: Risks and IT (or here with Jonathan Rosenoer, 2009 (elevator version of a longer report)
Computerworld: Software: The eternal battlefield in the unending cyberwars (interview with Gary Anthes, 2009)
CyLab web: In-depth interview regarding software assurance, ISR, and sound analysis (2009)
Computerworld: Endless value spiral (interview with Gary Anthes, 2008)
IEEE Software: Following the money: Research funding fluctuates globally, p.111 (Sept/Oct 2005)
NPR radio commentary: Gore and Internet on NPR All Things Considered (1999)

ISR is the focal point in SCS for research and graduate education in Software Engineering (SE) and Computation Organizations and Society (COS). It additionally supports research and education in Information Infrastructure in Emerging Economics and in Digital Libraries.
The ISR home page has information about our diverse educational and research programs.
ISR has two PhD programs: Software Engineering (program information and application), Computers Organizations and Society (program information and application). Please contact Connie Herold for further information.
Additionally, ISR hosts a variety of professional and executive programs including the Masters in Software Engineering (MSE) program, now more than two decades, the MSIT in eBusiness, the MSIT in Very Large Information Systems (VLIS), the MSIT in Software Engineering Management, and, joint with ECE, the MSIT in Embedded Software Engineering.
We have joint MS programs in Korea, Portugal (also PhD), and India.
The ISR is home to approximately thirty faculty, seventy visitors and staff, and more than a hundred MS and PhD students.
Faculty policies for tenure track, research faculty, special faculty, and lecturers
Faculty search (see main SCS faculty search page).

scherlis at-sign cs.cmu.edu