Activities and Events

Networking and Roundtable Meetings
Monthly networking and roundtable meetings are designed to bring together software practitioners and researchers to investigate and discuss topics of interest. Attendees find community building and networking to be an invaluable benefit.

• Southern California Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
  The Southern California SPIN is a community of software practitioners and researchers that gathers monthly on the UC Irvine campus to investigate and discuss topics of interest in the area of software process.

• Bay Area Roundtable (BART)
  BART meetings, held in Palo Alto, are organized into topical series and are geared towards technical practitioners.

Symposia
The purpose of IRUS symposia is to bring together researchers and practitioners for a day of information sharing. Symposia feature refereed papers and presentations, invited speaker and keynotes, panel discussions, debates, demonstrations, and/or posters.

• California Software Symposium (CSS) (Formerly ISS)
  The California Software Symposium (CSS) is an annual symposium, cosponsored by IRUS and USC's Center for Software Engineering. This one-day meeting features high quality peer reviewed papers and presentations. The CSS Program Committee reviews submissions, plans the program, and provides direction.

• Focused Technology Symposia
  IRUS sponsors periodic technology symposia focused on a particular topic. Participation from the local community in the form of presentations on new approaches, positive and negative experience reports, and panel discussions is highlighted.

Special Events and Activities
IRUS sponsors a variety of one-time events such as workshops and special meetings and co-sponsors or provides support for various national and international conferences and symposia.

TWIST - The Workshop series on Internet-scale Software Technologies

The TWIST series aims to gather participants from industry and academia who are researching or developing software technologies that scale to the Internet. TWIST provides a forum for discussion and enables quick dissemination of current ideas within a well-targeted audience. The goals of the workshop series are developing a better understanding among the different communities of interest, improved definition of requirements for scaling to the Internet, better appreciation of the application domains that require or benefit from this approach, and suggestions for fruitful research directions.

These workshops are held annually in the summer months at the University of California, Irvine.

• The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies (TWIST 99), August 19-20, 1999
  

• The Workshop on Internet-Scale Event Notification, (WISEN), July 13-14, 1998
  

Research Partnerships
Research partnerships are relationships typically between an individual company and an individual faculty member, focused around a specific project or topic. The focus is often on collaboration to solve problems of mutual interest. In some cases companies financially sponsor a specific research project which is conducted at UCI. In some cases the focus is on transitioning technology to the company. Other projects may focus on UCI usage of corporate technology. Still others are directed at site visits for information exchange, consulting, or arranging summer internships for students.

Schedule of Events, Flyers, Mailing Lists

Flyers are also available directly via the IRUS electronic and postal mailing lists.

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