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the SEI | Strategy
of the SEI | A Brief History of the SEI | Highlights for 2002 | Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms |
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| 1984> |
1984, with
the support of U.S. Rep. John
Murtha of Pennsylvania, Congress
and
the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
competitively award the contract for the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to Carnegie Mellon University
in
Pittsburgh, PA,
originally funded by the Advanced Research Projects
Agency
through a contract with the Air Force
Materiel Command’s Electronic Systems Center. In
1997 the sponsor is changed to the Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition
and Technology (OUSD [A&T]), now named the Office
of the Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology,
and
Logistics (OUSD [AT&L]).
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| 1985> | 1985, first SEI Symposium held in Pittsburgh; attendance reaches 1,200 in 1997. |
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| 1987> |
1987,
first Capability
Maturity Model®(CMM®)
published. Model is refined and published as Capability Maturity Model
for Software
(SW-CMM), Version 1.0, in 1991; Version 1.1 released in 1993. By
1995, specialized models are developed for software acquisition (SA-CMM),
systems engineering
(SE-CMM), integrated product development (IPD-CMM),
and organizational workforce capability development (People CMM).
1997, CMM
IntegrationSM (CMMI®)
Initiative
launched, sponsored by OUSD (A&T) and
the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Team from government,
industry,
and the SEI develops integrated framework for multiple maturity
models and associated training and appraisal products. Integrated model
for systems engineering and software engineering improvement (CMMI-SE/SW,
Version 1.0) published in 2000;
Version 1.1 of the CMMI models,
appraisal products, and training courses released in 2002.
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1987, Master of Software
Engineering program established by Carnegie Mellon. SEI staff
implement and teach six core courses. Program graduates
194 students by August 2002.
1987, SEI moves to current home near Carnegie Mellon campus; later opens branch offices in Arlington, VA (1990), Colorado Springs, CO (1993), Huntsville, AL (2002), and Frankfurt, Germany (2002). 1987, Ada Adoption Handbook: A Program Manager’s Guide published; 2,000 copies of first edition distributed. |
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| 1988> | 1988,
CERT® Coordination
Center (CERT/CC) established after Internet worm cripples 10% of computers
on Internet. CERT/CC later
plays major role in alerting community to vulnerabilities and mitigating
damage from attacks, including Melissa virus and ExploreZip Trojan horse
(1999), and the Code Red and Nimda worms (2001) (see the Survivable
Systems section).
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1988, first Software Engineering Process Group (SEPGSM) Conference held in Pittsburgh; annual attendance reaches 2,200 in 2001. First European SEPG Conference held in Amsterdam in 1996, co-sponsored by SEI and European Software Process Improvement (ESPI) Foundation. Other SEPG conferences held annually around the world. | ||
| 1989> | 1989, SEI
Series in Software Engineering created,
published by Addison-Wesley. Currently comprises 25 books, including
six published in 2002.
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| 1993> | 1993, A Practitioner’s Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) for Real-Time Systems published. RMA is a collection of quantitative methods and algorithms that allows engineers to specify, analyze, and predict timing behavior of real-time software systems. RMA principles later influence such standards as IEEE Futurebus+, POSIX, and Ada 95. In 1998, RMA techniques are credited with helping NASA restart the Mars Pathfinder after a system shutdown.
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1993, Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) introduced to encourage individual software engineers to use disciplined processes; leads to Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM) in 1996, to help software teams predict and meet development schedules and develop software with unprecedented accuracy and quality. | ||
| 1998> | 1998, Software
Engineering Information Repository (SEIR) Web site created to provide
a forum for exchange of information on software engineering improvement.
Today SEIR includes
more than
450 documents and 10,300 Web pages, and has 17,000 members from 5,000
organizations in 80 countries (for more details see the SEMA
section).
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1998, first issues of news@sei, a print newsletter, and news@sei interactive, a Web-based publication, published. | ||
| 1999> | 1999,
Version 1.0 of the Operationally
Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability EvaluationSM (OCTAVESM) framework,
a self-directed risk evaluation for information security, published.
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1999,, A
Framework for Software Product Line PracticeSM,
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| 2000> | 2000, COTS
Usage Risk EvaluationSM (CURESM) method
developed to provide early assistance for program managers preparing
to oversee commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based programs.
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2000, Technology
Insertion, Demonstration, and Evaluation (TIDE) Program established.
Funded through appropriation secured by U.S. Rep. Michael Doyle of Pennsylvania,
TIDE helps small
manufacturing enterprises adopt state-of-the-art software technology
to improve profitability and efficiency of small defense and commercial
manufacturers by overcoming barriers to technology adoption.
2000, first Software Product Line Conference held. |
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| 2001> | 2001, Internet Security Alliance formed
as partnership between SEI and Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) to
advance information-security practices by representing industry's interests
and identifying best practices in Internet and network security.
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| 2002> | 2002, Acquisition Support Program established to help DoD and other government entities improve acquisition of software-intensive systems. | 2002, first International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) held. | ||
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