SIGSOFT


The Association for Computing Machinery 's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.
SIGSOFT was officially formed in 1976 as the Special Interest Committee on Software Engineering, and converted to SIGSOFT in 1977.
SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software development and maintenance, with emphasis on requirements, specification and design, software architecture, validation, verification, debugging, software safety, mining software repositories, software processes, software management, measurement, user interfaces, configuration management, software engineering environments, AI for software engineering, and CASE tools.
SIGSOFT sponsors conferences and symposia including the International Conference on Software Engineering, the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering and other events.
SIGSOFT publishes the informal bimonthly newsletter Software Engineering Notes newsletter with papers, reports and other material related to the cost-effective, timely development and maintenance of high-quality software.

SIGSOFT sponsored and co-sponsored conferences

SIGSOFT Awards

SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

The SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award is presented annually to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to individuals who have contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community.
  • 1995 – Tony Wasserman
  • 1996 – Rick Adrion
  • 1997 – Peter G. Neumann
  • 1998 – Bruce Barnes
  • 1999 – Bill Riddle
  • 2000 – Marvin Zelkowitz
  • 2001 – Kouichi Kishida
  • 2002 – Lori Clarke
  • 2003 – Axel van Lamsweerde
  • 2004 – Will Tracz
  • 2005 – Richard N. Taylor
  • 2006 – Carlo Ghezzi
  • 2007 – David Notkin
  • 2008 – John C. Knight
  • 2009 – Stuart Zweben
  • 2010 – Mary Lou Soffa
  • 2011 – Jeff Kramer
  • 2012 – Alexander Wolf
  • 2013 – Wilhelm Schäfer
  • 2014 – Leon J. Osterweil
  • 2015 – Bashar Nuseibeh
  • 2016 – Martin Glinz
  • 2017 – Laura Dillon
  • 2018 – David S. Rosenblum
  • 2019 – Matt Dwyer
  • 2020 – Nenad Medvidović
  • 2021 – Tao Xie
  • 2022 – Joanne M. Atlee
  • 2023 – John Grundy
  • 2024 – Massimiliano Di Penta
  • 2025 – Mauro Pezzé
  • 2026 – Thomas Zimmermann

    SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award

The SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award is presented annually to an educator or educators who have made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software engineering with his or her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, researcher, author, and/or policy maker.