The economy, the nation’s infrastructure, education, and healthcare all depend on software. This workshop will explore the fundamental research needed to support progress across these critical domains.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality (SPSQ) Interagency Working Group are partnering on this workshop, to inform a community strategy for building and maintaining U.S. leadership in software engineering and AI engineering, and positively impact progress in multiple application domains.

Work on software engineering and AI engineering continues to receive increasing attention. This workshop intends to build on prior successful events to explore these issues in diverse application domains and address broader interests of the participating organizations. Using Architecting the Future of Software Engineering: A National Agenda for Software Engineering Research and Development as a starting point, we will identify and explore important research areas for the future of software engineering that are critical for multidisciplinary research. We will spur new partnerships to enable collaborations to advance the disciplines of software and AI engineering.

Goals of the workshop:

Identify research questions that excite the computing community and can spark new collaborations
Identify addendums or updates to the National Agenda for Software Engineering roadmap
Produce a NITRD report summarizing challenges and strategic priorities for building and maintaining US leadership in software & AI engineering for the advanced computing and software community.

If you are unable to attend in person, we are offering a remote webinar option, although it will not give the same experience. Please do not register for in-person participation if you are planning to attend fully remotely. If you plan to participate remotely, please register for the webinar at https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_g4uNXkOgQ7uc0raBjOlGlw

If you have any questions about the workshop, please send an email to leadership-sw-ai@sei.cmu.edu.

U.S. Leadership in Software Engineering & AI Engineering Workshop