Embedded Systems and Software Engineering Outreach

Association Computing Machinery, New York NY

Investigators

Abstract

The objective of this proposal is to facilitate outreach between the software engineering and embedded systems research communities by providing travel support for outstanding students of one community to participate at the flagship conference of the other. The proposed travel stipend intends to improve the mutual awareness of the ACM software engineering (SIGSOFT) and embedded systems (SIGBED) research communities to the opportunities and challenges emerging in their research areas. Supporting the crossover of ideas between these communities has been an important goal. The outstanding scientist and recognized National leader in computer science who has been working for this goal until his untimely death in 2004 has been Dr Frank Anger, Deputy Director of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations in the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The basic idea for this travel support has been conceived in the spirit of his work and his legacy.