Bashar Nuseibeh Editorial
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

"Recognizing the need for timeliness of publication and the environmentally friendly opportunities provided by online publication, TSE will be moving to a “mostly online” mode of delivery in 2013. Through IEEE Computer Society’s OnlinePlus, TSE papers will not only be available online as soon as they are accepted for publication, they will also be packaged as an electronic offering as the default form of subscription. This will be accompanied by a quarterly 6 inch by 9 inch digest in hardcopy, containing paper details— including titles, authors, abstracts, and citation information—and a disk containing the PDF version of the papers and supplemental material. Readers wishing to continue to receive hardcopies of the full journal can do so for an additional subscription fee, using a print-on-demand service."

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Instrumenting the human body with sensors

Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You
Flexible electronics allow us to cover robots and humans with stretchy sensors

By Takao Someya, University of Tokyo, Japan

IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2013

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Very interesting report by the McKinsey Global Institute on Disruptive Technologies: Advances that Will Transform Life, Business, and the Global Economy. Sounds like a great opportunity for software engineering principles applied to the development and use of these technologies!

Agile methods in software engineering courses

The management of software engineering processes is a foundational topic in software engineering courses. Moreover it is the cornerstone of the learning and assessment activities conducted in software engineering capstone projects.

• Are there successful experiences on the usage of agile methods in software engineering courses?
• What are the more suitable agile methodologies? (E.g., SCRUM, extreme programming,...)
• What are advantages and disadvantages of using these approaches in software engineering courses?
• How to integrate architectural and assurance concerns into these methods to effectively teach software engineering concepts throughout the entire software life cycle?

“The older is not always a reliable model for the newer, the smaller for the larger, or the simpler for the more complex…Making something greater than any existing thing necessarily involves going beyond experience.”

Henry Petroski

Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering