Software Sustainability Institute

Software Sustainability Institute
Abbreviation	SSI
Formation	2010
Purpose	A national facility for building better software
Headquarters	EPCC
Location	University of Edinburgh; EPCC; University of Manchester; University of Oxford; University of Southampton;
Director	Neil Chue Hong
Key people	Malcolm Atkinson (Co-I, 2010-2011); Les Carr (Co-I, 2015-present); David De Roure (Co-I, 2010-present); Carole Goble (Co-I, 2010-present); Mark Parsons (Co-I, 2011-present); David Gavaghan (Chair, 2010-2015); Mark Plumbley (Chair, 2016-2017); Kevin Ashley (Chair, 2018-present); Simon Hettrick (Deputy Director, 2014-present)
Website	www.software.ac.uk
Remarks	Motto: "Better software, better research"

The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software based in the UK and founded in 2010. The Institute is based at the University of Edinburgh (EPCC formerly Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) with sites at the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton.

Organisation

It is an academic institute run for the benefit of researchers and software developers, and funded initially with over £4 million from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).^[1] Further funding was provided in 2015^[2] by EPSRC, ESRC and BBSRC with additional project funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

The principal investigator of the project is Neil Chue Hong with support from co-investigators Malcolm Atkinson, Les Carr, David De Roure, Carole Goble, Simon Hettrick, Caroline Jay and Mark Parsons.^[1]^[2]^[3]