Abstract :
IEEE Software Editor-in-Chief Forrest Shull discusses the value of experience reports and how they can bring practical advice and perspective that simple metrics are not always able to provide. In addition, he discusses Software Experts Summit 2013 and announces that the magazine is seeking a new multimedia editor. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/KTUHr-1S_wo is a video preview of Software Experts Summit 2013, which will focus on Smart Data Science: Harnessing Data for Intelligent Decision Making. Scheduled for 17 July at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, speakers include James Whittaker of Microsoft, Paul Zikopoulos of IBM, Wolfram Schulte of Microsoft Research, Ayse Bener of Ryerson University, and Forrest Shull of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering.
