Notes and Miscellaneous Resources

Updated: Friday, April 27, 2001

Class Notes

April 27, 2001
- Clarification on the roles of the final manuals
March 20, 2001
- User Interfaces
  - Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) - History of the GUI
  - ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
  - ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
  - Graphical User Interface Builders
  - Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  - UNC INLS 257 course home page
  - Apple web site and Microsoft web site
- Components
March 7, 2001
- Example meeting minutes from the Sitterson Building and Grounds Committee (Donna Boggs)
February 27, 2001
- CMU Software Engineering Institute CM material
- RCS documentation from NASA Goddard
- RCS tutorial from CalPoly
- CVS Home
- CVS for new users
- Downloads for various platforms
- CVS introduction by Jim Blandy
- Other documentation
- CVS add-ons
February 6, 2001
- GAO Report on the AN/ALQ-135 (see also "Other Resources/Links" below)
January 23, 2001
- An example project timeline (Gantt chart)
- Another Gantt example, and a PERT chart
January 18, 2001
- An example project Library web page
- Barry Boehm, 2000. "Software Management Project: Termination Doesn't Equal Project Failure," IEEE Cmputer, Vol. 33, No. 9pp. 94-96.
- Fergus O'Connell, "Why do Projects Fail?" ETP [Ireland] Ltd. Moatstown House, Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland,
January 16, 2001
- Team roles
- Kick-Off meeting (team only)
- Initial client meeting
- Project Web I (DUE: January 25)
- Preliminary Report (DUE: January 25)
- Weekly Reports and example meeting minutes
- Action Items

Other Resources/Links

IEEE Copyright Policies
Microsoft Student Developer Organization
Missions-Critical Software
- Northrop-Grumman AN/ALQ-135. (Prof. Welch worked on.)
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Voyager Project, and fun facts. (Prof. Welch worked on.)
- Flight Critical Systems track of the 19th Annual Digital Avionics Systems Conference.
Software Engineering
- Carnegie Mellon, Software Engineering Institute.