Institute For Software Integrated Systems

  • Vanderbilt University

    $8.8 million grant to overhaul evolution of complex software systems

    All software is not created equal. At one end are apps on a smartphone and consumer-facing programs for which periodic updates to fix bugs and security issues are routine, like replacing an air conditioning filter or getting an annual flu shot. At the other end are large, complex software systems… Read More

    Aug. 20, 2020

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    Vanderbilt team wins $750K with AI to manage RF spectrum

    MarmotE team members (L-R) Peter Horvath, Peter Volgyesi, Sandor Szilvasi and Miklos Maroti. Vanderbilt team MarmotE cleared Phase 2 of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge held in December at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. With no real estate left to expand the… Read More

    Jan. 29, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Making the U.S. power grid smarter, more resilient

    Researchers from Vanderbilt and two other universities charged with reinventing and protecting America’s power grid are taking their first solutions on a demonstration tour. Their idea is to build an underlying, open-source software platform to support decentralized applications that boost the power grid’s resilience and protect it from dangers ranging… Read More

    Apr. 3, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Renowned cyber-physical systems researcher Sztipanovits honored with symposium

    Georgia Tech colleague: “You are the reason the field exists.” A progenitor of the Internet of Things celebrated his 70th birthday with a surprise, day-long symposium and party that brought together some of the world’s most renowned researchers in cyber-physical systems. Colleagues greeted Janos Sztipanovits, the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished… Read More

    Aug. 5, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student rocketeers win fourth national championship in a row

      Vanderbilt student rocketeers have won NASA’s Orbital-ATK University Student Launch competition for the fourth year in a row. They had to beat out 40 other university teams in the yearlong national competition in order to achieve this “four-peat.” NASA announced the results of the competition… Read More

    May. 13, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Don’t nag me about taking the bus. Vanderbilt engineers already put me on it.

    By Heidi Hall VUSE Communications   Guilt and nagging just don’t work on me. My do-gooder, bus-riding friends who constantly hounded me about adding to traffic congestion and hurting the environment with my car? I just learned to avoid them. Show me that there’s a great reason to make… Read More

    Dec. 17, 2015

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    Vanderbilt School of Engineering, partners awarded $3.5 million from ARPA-E for transformational energy technology

      (iStock) A new $3.5 million award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will support Vanderbilt University School of Engineering researchers’ efforts to create software that can control the Smart Grid – a decentralized power system that is more efficient, sustainable and… Read More

    Nov. 25, 2015

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    Vanderbilt software institute celebrates big week for grants

    Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems are celebrating this week after the announcements of three major National Science Foundation grants in three days. Gokhale First, the NSF announced on Monday the institute’s Aniruddha Gokhale, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, would share… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sztipanovits builds on IoT, Industrial Internet for the next tech revolution

    Janos Sztipanovits, director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Americans are well accustomed to the sight of Fitbit-adorned wrists, their wearers marching in place so that their smartphones can reward them with a celebratory message about hitting a step goal. That’s the Internet… Read More

    Aug. 18, 2015

  • VUSE news roundup

    VUSE news roundup

    February 21, 2014 Futurity: Baby hearts need rhythm to grow the right way A Vanderbilt research team has taken an important step toward the goal of growing replacement heart valves from a patient’s own cells. The team determined that the mechanical forces generated by the rhythmic expansion… Read More

    Feb. 21, 2014