SERC TALKS: “What is the role of a Reference Architecture in research and development of autonomous and/or cooperative systems?” Presented on October 2, 2019 at 1PM ET by Dr. David R. Jacques, Lt-Col (USAF-Ret), Professor of Systems Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: https://sercuarc.org/serc-talks/ ABSTRACT: The Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) has begun...

This two-day event unites the government, industry, and university systems engineering research community in order to share research progress and discuss the most challenging systems engineering issues facing the Department of Defense (DOD) as well as other federal departments and agencies. LEARN MORE: https://sercuarc.org/research-reviews/ssrr-2019/

This two-day event unites the government, industry, and university systems engineering research community in order to share research progress and discuss the most challenging systems engineering issues facing the Department of Defense (DOD) as well as other federal departments and agencies. LEARN MORE: https://sercuarc.org/research-reviews/ssrr-2019/

Presented on April 10 20, 2019 at 1PM ET by Dr. Supannika “Sue” K. Mobasser, Associate Director in the Software Systems and Acquisition Department - The Aerospace Corporation For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: https://sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: With the adoption of Agile have started to be a viable option as evidenced in several large scale and mission critical programs, the challenges of Agile adoption have started to show up as well. This talk will...

Presented on February 20, 2019 at 1PM ET by David P. Seaver, Senior Technical Advisor Business Intelligence Organization, National Security Agency For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: https://sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: The B4 organization at National Security Agency (NSA) prepares all of the Independent Cost Estimates for major NSA Acquisitions. NSA has been developing most of its software utilizing Agile development practices since approximately 2005....

Presented on December 11, 2018 at 1PM ET by Dr. Xavier Franch Full Professor, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona Tech) For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Analysis of trade-offs among software quality factors needs to be based upon a clear statement of the meaning of such factors and their interrelationships. There are several instruments with this aim. In this talk, we will focus on two of them, which...

Presented on October 3, 2018 at 1PM ET by Dr. Bill Curtis Senior VP & Chief Scientist, CAST Software; Head of CAST Research Labs, Executive Director, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: The C-suite is fed up with software disasters putting the quarterly statement at risk as they digitize the business. They will demand more accountability and force improvements in software...

Systems Engineering Research Center: 10 years of supporting Systems related research

Presented on August 8, 2018 at 1PM ET by Dr. Barry Boehm, USC, SERC For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Systems and software qualities (SQs) are also known as non-functional requirements (NFRs). Where functional requirements (FRs) specify what a system should do, the NFRs specify how well the system should do them. Many of them, such as Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Usability, Affordability, Interoperability,...

Presented on June 6, 2018 at 1PM ET by Phyllis Marbach, INCOSE For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Phyllis Marbach was involved in establishing how projects using agile methods plan, measure and report their earned value at Boeing. During the course of that work she acquired data from two projects and assisted the Government Accounting Office (GAO) with agile updates to the Scheduling and Cost Guides in 2015. Although, you...

Presented on April 4, 2018 at 1PM ET by Robin Yeman, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Lockheed Martin (LM) Information Systems and Global Solution, Agile/DevOpSec SME For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: With each passing year software continues to grow and every industry regardless of their product uses software as an integral part of their value stream. That phenomenon is especially true in the government space where we deliver...

Presented on February 8, 2018 at 11AM ET by Dr. Jan Bosch, Professor of Software Engineering and Director or the Software Center at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: We are living in the most exciting time in the history of mankind. The last century has seen unprecedented improvements in the quality of the human condition and technology is at the heart of this...

Presented on November 1, 2017 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET by Dr. William Scherlis, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: There are diverse barriers to advancement of strong cybersecurity, and many of these derive from unresolved conflicts among equities relating to technical means for high...

Presented on October 4, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Dr. Gary McGraw, Vice President Security Technology, Synopsys. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Software security defects come in two categories: bugs in the implementation and flaws in the design. In the commercial marketplace, much more attention has been paid to finding and fixing bugs than has been paid to finding and fixing flaws. That is because automatically...

Presented on October 4, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Dr. Gary McGraw, Vice President Security Technology, Synopsys. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Software security defects come in two categories: bugs in the implementation and flaws in the design. In the commercial marketplace, much more attention has been paid to finding and fixing bugs than has been paid to finding and fixing flaws. That is because automatically...

Presented on August 2, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET - “How Do We Prepare the People Who Will Need to Manage the Real-time Responses to Cyber Attacks on Physical Systems?” - Dr. Barry Horowitz / Dr. Inki Kim, University of Virginia For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: As part of an ongoing multi-year SERC Research Task led by University of Virginia, the research effort focuses on development of cyber attack resilience...

Presented on August 2, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET - “How Do We Prepare the People Who Will Need to Manage the Real-time Responses to Cyber Attacks on Physical Systems?” - Dr. Barry Horowitz / Dr. Inki Kim, University of Virginia For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: As part of an ongoing multi-year SERC Research Task led by University of Virginia, the research effort focuses on development of cyber attack...

Presented on June 7, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: Cyber-social learning systems (CSLS) are purposeful socio-technical systems that learn. They learn how to perform much better over time, as manifested in continuous progress toward, and ultimately in the achievement and maintenance of, extraordinary levels of fitness for purpose. Learning...

Presented on June 7, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: Cyber-social learning systems (CSLS) are purposeful socio-technical systems that learn. They learn how to perform much better over time, as manifested in continuous progress toward, and ultimately in the achievement and maintenance of, extraordinary levels of fitness for purpose....

Presented on April 5, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: A cognitive architecture is a hypothesis about the fixed structures comprising a mind, whether natural or artificial. It is analogous to a computer architecture in providing a general level of programmability, but concerns creating an...

Presented on April 5, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: A cognitive architecture is a hypothesis about the fixed structures comprising a mind, whether natural or artificial. It is analogous to a computer architecture in providing a general level of programmability, but concerns creating an...

SERC Talks: "What is the Self?" Presented on February 1, 2017 at 1 PM EST by Grady Booch, IBM Research. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: Imagine unleashing Watson in the physical world. Give it eyes, ears, and touch, then let it act in that world with hands and feet and a face, not just as an action of force but also as an action of influence. This is embodied cognition: by placing the cognitive power of...

SERC Talks: "What is the Self?" Presented on February 1, 2017 at 1 PM EST by Grady Booch, IBM Research. For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you. ABSTRACT: Imagine unleashing Watson in the physical world. Give it eyes, ears, and touch, then let it act in that world with hands and feet and a face, not just as an action of force but also as an action of influence. This is embodied cognition: by placing the cognitive power of...