Alfred Spector, Michael Ernst & Doug Schmidt talking at the 2007 NSF Science of Design Principal Investigators' meeting. (Photo © Kevin Sullivan)
| At the request of the National Science Foundation, Helen Nissenbaum (New York University), Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University) and Kevin Sullivan (University of Virginia) organized the 2007 NSF Science of Design Principal Investigators' meeting in Arlington, Virginia, USA. The meeting started on the evening of Wednesday, February 28th and lasted until the afternoon of Friday, March 2. The University of Virginia administered the meeting with support from National Science Foundation under grant number CCF-0346938. The primary motivation for the meeting, and indeed for the Science of Design program at the NSF, is that we lack an adequate discipline of design for software and software-intensive systems. The chief goal of this meeting was to give the PIs in the Science of Design program an opportunity to meet each other and share ideas: to build a richer community around the topic of software and software-intensive system design. The agenda included two days of meetings with keynote talks (by Carliss Baldwin of the Harvard Business School and Alfred Spector, an independent consultant), talks by NSF personnel, and breakout group discussions and reports, as well as meals and breaks. Available artifacts/slides for and produced at the meeting, including slides for keynote talks, NSF presentations, and most breakout group write-ups, are available on the agenda page. The meeting had nearly all Science of Design PIs as attendees, as well as a number of co-PI's and other close colleagues invited by PIs. Part of the meeting involved short presentation of project summaries, also known as nuggets, by each project. The venue for the meeting itself was the Executive Conference Center in Arlington, VA. Participants mainly stayed at the Arlington Hyatt hotel. Participants needing further information on travel and reimbursement can visit the page so linked. |
Mary Shaw, Fred Brooks, Barry Boehm & Carliss Baldwin at the 2007 NSF Science of Design PI meeting. (Photo © Kevin Sullivan)