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I’m spending the week in Syracuse, NY attending the Air Force Office of Scientific Research annual PI meeting. The meeting is a week long because they’ve combined the software and security presentations. Next year they plan to split them up, which is a shame since I have found the security presentations the most interesting.

I found out some other interesting tidbits of information: the NSF funds the majority (90% IIRC) of all university research in computer science, and AFOSR’s software research budget is increasing. Given the highly competitive nature of NSF funding, with 10% or less of proposals normally being funded, I’d bet that AFOSR will be getting more and more applications in the future as researchers look elsewhere.

I presented a formal research demonstration at ICSE last week. The demo highlighted Spotlight, our research prototype for software plans. Software plans are like architectural plans of a building in that they allow programmers to work on semi-independent aspects of their programs in semi-independent views, then later integrate them to create the final system. You can check out the latest version of Spotlight, which is built in the Eclipse IDE here.