SPLASH '15 Workshop: Smart Software Strategies

Workshop date:  Monday October 26, 2015, 8:30am - 5pm
Location:  SPLASH '15 Conference in Pittsburgh

Website Contents

Workshop Final Report

Workshop Overview

This is the website for the SPLASH workshop on Smart Software Strategies.

What can we learn from the experiences of Y2K? There are some lessons about software design and software maintenance that we might apply to the next wave of software and technology:

What advances in software analysis, design, coding, and testing will we need to do reduce our exposure to defects, unintended side effects, and malicious mischief? We might look to the past -- to the biggest concentrated effort to clean up and modernize software on a worldwide scale. Are there some lessons we can learn from "Y2K remediation activites" of the 1990s?


There are many topics to discuss in this workshop:


How to join the Workshop

Too late! The workshop is over. See the link above to read the workshop final report!


Workshop committee:

Extra material

Extra material (useful readings, links to relevant books and articles) will be posted here.

Some potential risks of smart technology:


Last modified: November 16, 2015