“WOW” ICSE’s Window On the World Monday, May 5 Portland Hilton Portland, Oregon, USA Volume 9, Issue 0 2003 May 3-10 Inside this Issue Welcome to ICSE 2003 & WOW 1 Welcome to ICSE 2003 ARTICLES WELCOMED Portland Orientation 1 About WOW WOW won’t exist without reporters. Pioneers Symposium 3 By Hal Hart (TRW), WOW Editor Short reviews of the technical sessions Open Source Software Engineering you attend are welcomed for Workshop 3 Welcome to ICSE 2003, publication in WOW. Indicate the 25th International Where to Eat 4 whether you want them printed Conference on Software anonymously or signed. Submission Engineering! is via drop-off at Hilton room 2323 WOW, an ICSE tradition (Alexander’s Suite) or hand to anyone Portland Orientation since 1995, brings attendees late- with a “Press” ribbon. (Floppies Edited by Antoinette Ahiable (Aalborg breaking “news” stories, interviews preferred, but hand-written University, Denmark) with speakers and organizers, thought paragraphs are accepted too – we’ll pieces, and interesting bits of The 5 Quadrants do the data entry). information about the conference, the Portland is divided into North and location, and the current and next South by Burnside (a street) and East generation of software engineering and West by the Willamette River. researchers and practitioners – with WOW Staff Meetings The Hilton, being west of the river and occasional humor and light- south of Burnside is in "SW" Portland. WOW volunteers should note that hartedness. See “Articles Welcomed” on It is centrally located in the business the staff will meet at 1pm each day this page if you want to contribute. district. The fifth quadrant is created in the WOW suite (room 2323) for a by the geographic reality that the Today’s issue #0 starts off with a mix very brief check on writing Willamette leaves downtown flowing of information about the area, where assignments. northwest. This means that there is a to eat, a workshop review, notes from Production of the next day’s issue region east of the river that is west of the Pioneers Symposium, and some will begin at 7pm each evening. where the river transects downtown. techie humor. Tomorrow’s That region is called North and it conference-opening issue will be rich includes the University of Portland. in “technical content. Weather Forecast Today: Showers Center for the Performing Arts. The A warning: 3 or more consecutive High: 17 C (60 F) PCPA is served by several very nice, busy conference days can lay to waste Low: 6 C (42 F) relatively high-end restaurants the best of minds, so recharge your Sunrise: 5:54am including: Higgin's, South Park, and batteries along the way by taking Sunset: 8:34pm the Heathman Hotel's dinning room. advantage of the concentration of Tomorrow: Partly cloudy All three of these are pricey, but diversions here in unique Portland and High: 18 C (62 F) generally quite good. South Park in the immediate area. In other words, specializes in Seafood and is a 2 Low: 8 C (46 F) have some fun this week too! -H personal favorite. Restaurants are dense in this downtown business HEADLINES AROUND THE WORLD: district. USA: ”US-Syria tensions rise” Major Pedestrian areas USA: ”Tornados in Mid-West kill 19” Downtown: (SW near the Hilton). ASIA: ”India-Pakistan peace hopes SPORTS SCORES rise” This is primarily the business district. Detroit Pistons 108* It includes some very nice restaurants CANADA: ”WHO says SARS Orlando Magic 93 and venues for the performing arts. ‘contained’ in Toronto” Dallas Mavericks 107* The Hilton is just east of Portland's Portland Trailblazers 95 Center for the Performing Arts. *: Wins series & moves on to next round of playoffs ICSE’S WINDOW ON THE WORLD (WOW) PAGE 2 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 0 – MONDAY, 5 MAY 2003 The PCPA is served by several very 21st". These two streets are packed Street pub 1526 SW 10th Avenue. nice, relatively high-end restaurants with boutiques and restaurants. This One of the most interesting is the including: Higgin's, South Park, and neighborhood has small streets, old Crystal Ballroom, which is the big the Heathman Hotel's dinning room. houses, and lots of character. At night dance hall. All three of these are pricey, but it feels alive. Some of my favorites in Several of the pubs also double as generally quite good. South Park this area include Lucy's table, and movie theatres, with schedules at: specializes in Seafood and is a Paley's place. http://www.mcmenamins.com/ personal favorite. Restaurants are East of the river there are also several Theaters/. In most, if not all, you dense in this downtown business interesting areas. There are some can eat and drink while viewing the district. great neighborhoods, including movie. Gardens If you walk south on Broadway you "Irvington" and "Ladd's addition" that will get to the PSU campus. There are are nice places to walk and look at Portland, the rose city, is home to some interesting and moderately lawns and houses with character. several gardens including the Portland priced options near there, including a There are also some interesting Classical Chinese Garden (in Vietnamese restaurant and bakery. shopping and restaurant districts. Two Chinatown); Portland's Japanese Another, more attractive route to PSU areas of particular interest are garden, located in Washington Park is to go west form the hotel to the Broadway east of Martin Luther King near the zoo; Portland west hills, "park blocks" and go south to campus. Blvd. and Hawthorne, particularly in accessible by bus or MAX or an This will take you by the art museum the vicinity of SE 38th. A unique and ambitious walk; Portland's and the Oregon Historical society. moderately priced dining experience International Rose Test Garden, also can be found at Jarra's Ethiopian in Washington Park. If you go east from the hotel you get restaurant at 1435 SE Hawthorne Good walks to the waterfront. This is a great place Blvd. to go for walks during the day. You can walk both the east and the Getting Around Other interesting parts of downtown west side of the river. Also, you can include the northwest corner of the Portland prides itself on mass transit. walk in Washington Park, which in downtown SW district, where Not only can you get from the airport addition to everything else enumerated established restaurants Jake's and to downtown by the MAX train has the Hoyt Arboretum and a series Cassidy's are located. This area also (which can also take you to within a of trails that link with Forest park, a has the Crystal Ballroom, a classic mile of OGI in the 17 mile long near wilderness park that dance ballroom that has been restored Beaverton/Hillsboro area), but you can reaches like a finger into downtown. get around downtown on a street car by the McMenamin's pub chain. If you Destinations for Families are into dancing this is an amazing that came into service in the past few Favorites include the Oregon Zoo, venue. years. The streetcar begins near the Portland State University campus at World Forestry Center, and Children's North of Burnside and east of the park the south end of downtown, goes museum (in Washington Park, MAX blocks is Portland's China town. This through campus, and heads north on stop), and the Oregon Museum of is an economically very mixed area. It 10th and 11th, just west of the Park Science and Industry (a very nice contains the new Oregon Classical blocks. It continues north across museum with a planetarium). This is Chinese Garden, which is highly Burnside (going by Powell's) and east of the Willamette, just south of recommended. I would recommend gives access to the Pearl district, the I5 bridge. You can see the big red navigating this part of town in finally turning West to link with the smokestack and the submarine from daylight. northern end of the shopping district the waterfront park on the west side. North of Burnside and west of the on NW 23rd. Other interests park blocks is the most recently Local color not to miss Learn about the practice of Shanghai gentrified region of downtown: The in a Portland Underground Tour. You Pearl district. This is an excellent Powell's Books need to make reservations and prepay place to find good food in what You can find both the main bookstore beforehand; info about the practice initially looks like a bunch of "City of Books" and the technical and tours is available at: warehouses. There is also a very nice bookstore. They have a walking map of Portland which is the best such http://members.tripod.com/cgs- Vietnamese place here called Pho mthood/shanghai_tunnels_FAQ.htm Van. There is a very upscale resource around, and can be found in your registration package. Credits: James Hook (Oregon Health & Science restaurant called Blue Hour here. The University), Mike Adams (Portland State) Pearl has lots of gallery's as well. This Microbrews: One of particular note is region is accessible by Street Car. the local McMenamin's chain. This is Quote of the Day West of the Pearl is Portland's most a collection of distinct but Not everything that counts can be established nice, upscale pedestrian thematically similar little pubs started counted, district. It is frequently referred to by by two brothers. Each has its own Not everything that is counted counts. street numbers "NW 23rd" or "NW unique somewhat hippie feel. The A. Einstein closest to the Hilton is the Market ICSE’S WINDOW ON THE WORLD (WOW) PAGE 3 VOLUME 9, ISSUE 0 – MONDAY, 5 MAY 2003 Michael Jackson spent many years OSSE Workshop during the ‘70s “hacking… that is to By Davor Čubranić say agile methods.” Michael’s The Pioneers Symposium entertaining talk ended with the The third workshop on Open-Source By Reid Holmes (Univ.