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Window on the World
Issue 3
Come to ICSE 2001 in Toronto!
By Hausi Müller
Today, the engineering of software profoundly impacts world economics. For example, the desperate demands by all information technology sectors to adapt their information systems to the web has generated a tremendous need for methods, tools, processes, and infrastructure to develop new and evolve existing applications efficiently and cost-effectively.
ICSE 2001, the 23rd incarnation of the premier conference for software engineering, will present the latest inventions, achievements, and experiences in software engineering research and practice. We invite you to participate in ICSE 2001 to help us build an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in this ever expanding and critical field of software engineering.
There will be keynote speeches from Linda Northrop (SEI), John Swainson (IBM), Bernd Voigt (Lufthansa), Fred Brooks (UNC). Special events include the David L. Parnas Symposium, the Perspectives on Software Engineering Panel, the Software Engineering Research Agendas Panel, and Invited Industry Presentations.
There also will be three collocated conferences: the International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC), Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI), and the Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR).
ICSE 2001 will be held May 12—19 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This hotel is situated directly on the lakefront overlooking Lake Ontario. It is also located just a few blocks away from the heart of downtown Toronto, which abounds in restaurants, theaters, shopping, and other activities.
Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities. Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York and London. One of the world's most ethnically diverse cities, it is home to more than 80 ethnic communities from Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toronto is also the business centre of Canada. Here are just some of the many web sites that contain information about the city.
Exciting, vibrant and cosmopolitan, Metropolitan Toronto, the 5th-largest metropolitan centre in North America (population approx. 2,500,000), reigns as Canada's largest city, the capital of the Province of Ontario, and Canada's cultural, financial and transportation hub. Metro Toronto is within a one hour drive for about five million Canadians, and is 90 minutes by air for about 60 per cent of the population of the United States.
Toronto is home to the CN Tower, the world's tallest free standing structure; two-time World Champion Blue Jays baseball team; SkyDome, the world's first retractable roof stadium; Ontario Place, which features the first permanent giant-screen IMAX theatre, a Canadian invention; and is in close proximity to the Niagara region featuring Niagara Falls.
The deadlines for submitting to ICSE 2001 are:
August 14, 2000
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Technical paper abstracts
August 28, 2000
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Full technical papers
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Case study reports, education papers, special events
October 16, 2000
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Tutorial, workshop, and panel proposals
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Doctoral symposium applications, formal research demos, posters and informal demos:
January 8, 2001
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Exhibit proposals
The organizers of ICSE 2001 are:
General Chair
Hausi
A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
hausi@csr.uvic.ca
http://www.csr.uvic.ca/~hausi/
Program Chairs
Mary
Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
harrold@cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~harrold/
Wilhelm
Schäfer, University of Paderborn, Germany
wilhelm@uni-paderborn.de
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/schaefer/ag_engl/Personal/Schaefer.html
Make sure you bookmark http://www.csr.uvic.ca/icse2001/ for permanent reference as you prepare for ICSE 2001!
Designer
and Webmistress
Caroline Kehoe