Public Project Page Steven Woods

SEI Pittsburgh Archive

Research archive for Steven Woods' Software Engineering Institute period in Pittsburgh from 1998 through the early 2002 retrospective bridge period, including software architecture, reengineering work, institute context, and startup-transition material.

Current Phase Seeded era archive
The archive now has a checked-in continuity layer, a startup validator, and a deeper approved baseline of twelve SEI-era sources.
Timeline Span 1998 to 2002 bridge
Focused on SEI work in Pittsburgh and the retrospective bridge into the Quack era.
Current Focus Expanded baseline with two additional SEI papers and a localized AOL bridge
This bounded pass added the OAR paper, the collaborative-agent evaluation paper, and a localized AOL acquisition bridge copied into SEI with explicit Quack provenance.
Updated May 11, 2026
Summary page synced to the expanded continuity-safe SEI Pittsburgh baseline.
Open working repository Project manifest Source manifest Open work plan Open startup check

Current State

Era boundary is now explicit

`steven-woods-research` remains the person-centric layer, while this project is now the canonical era-specific deep archive for the SEI Pittsburgh period.

First-source baseline is real

The archive now has a twelve-source baseline: six SEI-era publications, three SEI-hosted context pages, and three retrospective bridge entries into the Quack and AOL transition path.

Local preservation has started

All twelve approved baseline sources now resolve to checked-in local archive paths inside the SEI Pittsburgh archive tree, with one preserved PDF issue supporting two related transition entries and one bridge HTML capture localized from Quack with explicit provenance.

Continuity is restartable

The working archive now includes a living work plan, workspace-status note, dated recovery audit, and startup validation path so future SEI work does not depend on rediscovery.

Research Lanes

SEI publications and papers

Architecture and reengineering work, columns, papers, and publication context.

Staff and institute context

SEI organizational material, staff references, and public-facing institute pages from the period.

Transition to startups

Material connecting the SEI period to Quack and later company-building work.

Open public handoff Open Steven person-centric layer