The faculty and students in CMU's Computer Science Department would like to create a PhD-level course in software engineering. Toward this goal, we started a Software Engineering Reading Group (SERG) whose purpose is two-fold:

1. SERG acts a living laboratory for trying out selected topics in software engineering in order to discover which have enough intellectual meat to merit inclusion in a course, which are the most interesting and canonical papers for a given topic, which topics are interesting but insufficiently covered in the literature, and so on. The output of SERG feeds our on-going discussion of what material might be covered in a course on software engineering.
   
2. Until such a course exists, SERG provides an opportunity to learn the basic material in software engineering.

This web site is intended to facilitate both these goals. For each meeting, a page is created both (1) to capture the nuggets of our conversation and post-mortem reviews and (2) to gather together such educational materials as slides, handouts, bibliographies, and external web sites.

Rob DeLine maintains this site and welcomes all feedback.

[DeLine 02/20/97]