Prof David Rosenblum was awarded a SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for his 1997 paper 'A Design Framework for Internet-Scale Event Observation and Notification', co-authored with Prof Alexander Wolf of Imperial College London.  The award recognises that the paper has been highly influential in making publish/subscribe architectures relevant at Internet level.  The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award award was recently established by ACM SIGSOFT (the ACM Special Interest Group in Software Engineering) to recognise influential papers presented at past SIGSOFT-sponsored meetings.  The award will be made annually to one paper from a SIGSOFT-sponsored meeting that occurred exactly 10 years previously.  In addition, during the first 5 years of the award, additional awards will be made to a small number of older papers.

In the June 2007 CACM issue, Ren and Taylor presented a novel method for versatile ranking of research institutions and scholars. Ren and Taylor have applied this method to software engineering researchers world-wide and published rankings of both individual scholars and research groups. UCL's Software Systems Engineering Group ranked 14th world-wide and Emmanuel Letier, Alexander Egyed and Wolfgang Emmerich, three academic staff of the Software Systems Engineering Group were ranked 25th, 10th and 14th respectively.

Vito Perrone has won the CR-UK Pilot Project award at the NCRI Conference, the national leading conference on cancer research. This award is highly visible amongst the cancer research community in the UK and will support an interdisciplinary cooperation with the UCL department of oncology. The project will investigate usability requirements and solutions to improve the user interaction with existing and future cancer research resources. The initiative will open a new research strand, which complements the other ongoing activities in our group on the analysis and design of large scale systems to support cancer research.