Some Links about Computing

Computing policy and politics

Report of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (August 1998)

	Ed Lazowska's spiel on The Impact of a Research University: An InformationTechnology Perspective
	The Lazowska/CRA report on Computing Research: Driving Information Technology and the Information Industry Forward
	A Business Week article (31 August 1998) on why to increase basic research funding

Professional societies

	The Computing Research Association
	The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering)
	The IEEE Computer Society

Software engineering links

	U. Colorado's SEWORLD mailing list and archives
	The International Conference on Software Engineering (co-sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE) ICSE 99: The 21st International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 98: The 20th International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 97: The 19th International Conference on Software Engineering 18th International Conference on Software Engineering 17th International Conference on Software Engineering
	Other ACM SIGSOFT sponsored conferences Sixth ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-6) Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-5, joint with the Sixth European Software Engineering Conference) Fourth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-4) ISSTA 98 - International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Formal Methods in Software Practice (FMSP) International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-design (CODES/CASCHE'98) PASTE'98 - Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering International Conference on Work Activities, Coordination, and Collaboration (co-sponsored with SIGMOD, SIGCHI, and SIGGROUP)
	Other conferences International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1997) Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (1997) Automated Software Engineering (ASE'98) Automated Software Engineering (ASE'97) Tri-Ada 97 The 20th International Computers in Engineering Symposium International Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD-9) International Conference on Software Process (ICSP-5) Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) Fourth International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'98)
	Software Engineering Information outside UW