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  Software engineering - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Software engineering is the profession concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields.
Software engineering techniques are intended to improve the functionality and reliability of software, while improving the efficiency and easing the task of software development.
Software engineering is "(1) the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software," and "(2) the study of approaches as in (1)." -- IEEE Standard 610.12
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Software_engineering   (4256 words)

  
 Software engineering - Engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Software engineering is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, computer engineering, application domains, and other fields.
Software engineering is "(1) the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software," and "(2) the study of approaches as in (1)." – IEEE Standard 610.12
Requiring software engineers to be licensed would make persons who create software without a license into criminals, even if they give their software away, same as practicing medicine or law without a license, even for free, is a criminal offense.
engineering.wikia.com /wiki/Software_engineering   (3333 words)

  
 Category:Software engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Software engineering is the application of computer sciences, project management, and other techniques to create software applications.
Politically, software engineering does not claim to be part of engineering, which historically uses state certification in order to practice.
Thus comparing software engineering and related fields has other criteria than certification.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Software_engineering   (113 words)

  
 Software engineering - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying computer science and other technologies and practices.
Software Engineering is considered by many to be an engineering discipline because there are pragmatic scientific approaches and expected characteristics of the engineer.
The biggest and oldest conference devoted to software engineering is the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
www.internet-encyclopedia.com /ie/s/so/software_engineering.html   (1577 words)

  
 Software engineering
Undergraduate software engineering degrees are being established at many universities.
A new curriculum for undergraduate software engineering degrees is currently being defined by the CCSE.
Engineering is defined as an application of science.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/s/so/software_engineering.html   (1422 words)

  
 tBlog - Software engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Software engineering (SE) is a profession whose members create and maintain software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains and other fields.
Some software applications contain millions of lines of code that are expected to perform properly in the face of changing conditions, making them comparable in complexity to the most complex modern machines.
Experimental software engineering is a branch of software engineering interested in devising experiments on software, in collecting data from these experiments, and in devising laws and theories from this data.
adfunk.tblog.com /post/1969875051   (3731 words)

  
 Engineering Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
First establishing the need for discipline in software engineering, Engineering Software and the benefits to practitioners of learning how to manage their personal software process, Humphrey then develops a model that they can use to monitor, test, Engineering Software and improve their work.
An engineer’ s guide to systems engineering of software-radio architectures As a crucial element of wireless technology, software radio is fast becoming a hot topic in the telecommunications field.
Comparing software engineering and related fields - The relationships between software engineering and the fields of programming, computer science, and traditional engineering have been debated for decades.
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 Software engineering :: Web Articles ::
Software engineering is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields.
As of 2002, the U. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 675,000 computer software engineers holding jobs in the U.S., and there are estimated to be about one-and-a-half million practitioners in the E.U., Asia, and elsewhere; these figures are about 60% of the number of practitioners engaged in traditional engineering.
The term software engineering was popularized by the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference held in Garmisch, Germany and has been in widespread use since.
www.webarticles.com /Computers/Software/Software-engineering   (4096 words)

  
 Software engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'''Software engineering''' ('''SE''') is the profession, practiced by software engineers, concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering and other fields.
Software can be found in every aspect of modern life from life-critical applications like medical-monitoring devices and nuclear power plants to entertainment devices like video-games.
Many fields are closely related to software engineering.
software-engineering.ask.dyndns.dk   (4202 words)

  
 Software engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Software engineering is the profession that cares about creation of software.
Members of this profession are called software engineers, programmers, developers, or practitioners.
The best-known and oldest process is the waterfall model, where (roughly) developers analyze the problem, design a solution approach, architect a software framework to that solution, develop code, test, deploy, and maintain.
www.cs.utexas.edu /users/rpepper/final/5.htm   (2638 words)

  
 digg - Software Engineering, Not Computer Science
Software engineering is a craft not a science.
There is no such thing as "Software Engineering" because software engineers are not required ensure that their software works 100% of the time.
The problem with the "software engineering" model of programming is that there are too few people that consider development "engineering", and too many that consider it art.
digg.com /programming/Software_Engineering,_Not_Computer_Science   (2677 words)

  
 Philosophy of the GNU Project - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful.
Software Patents and Literary Patents, by Richard M. Stallman, speaking of patenting artistic techniques, US patent (6,935,954) covers making game characters start to hallucinate when (according to the game) they are being driven insane.
Lakhani and Wolf's paper on the motivation of free software developers says that a considerable fraction are motivated by the view that software should be free.
www.gnu.org /philosophy/philosophy.html   (3137 words)

  
 Comparing software, computer, and electrical engineering programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The three computer-related engineering programs cover the spectrum from hardware to software, with some overlap between programs.
Electrical engineering is largely hardware, with some software.
Software engineering is largely software, with some hardware.
www.msoe.edu /eecs/se/compare-programs   (177 words)

  
 Reliability Engineering and Weibull Analysis Resources for the Reliability Professional   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With over 6,000 pages, weibull.com is the most complete Web site devoted entirely to reliability engineering.
Reliability Edge is published up to four times per year and distributed via mail and the Web.
These free Web-based tools provide quick access to commonly used reliability analysis engines.
www.weibull.com   (234 words)

  
 SAL- Other Scientific Fields - Electrical & Related Software
Software related to electrical engineering -- circuit layout/design tools, EDA (Electronic Design Automation), etc.
FreeHDL -- a project to develop a VHDL simulator.
SLS -- a switch-level simulator used to simulate the behavior of digital MOS circuits.
ceu.fi.udc.es /SAL/Z/1/index.shtml   (1026 words)

  
 Physics Related Software Manuals/Links
NMath Core Library from CenterSpace Software: foundational classes for object-oriented numerics on the.NET platform, including complex number classes, vector and matrix classes, and random number generators (Documentation, Trial Version of NMath Core Download, see also NMath Matrix: extends the general matrix classes of NMath Core to structured sparse matrix classes and associated matrix decompositions)
GiNaC has been developed to become a replacement engine for xloops which is up to now powered by the Maple CAS (Computer Algebra System).
StatCodes: On-line statistical software for astronomy and related fields
www.jlab.org /~semenov/rlinks/soft.html   (5128 words)

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