Continuing from last year, SHFT is participating in CSUCI's HSI-SMART initiative. HSI-SMART is an NSF-funded five-year program to improve graduation rates through undergraduate research mentorship. SHFT is hosting four students: Adam Larson, Matilda Orona, Kimberley Soriano, and Evan Jacobs. Students will work on a variety of SHFT projects, including project file visualization, flash preservation, and perspectives on personal game archiving.

Dr. Larry Masinter, a renowned computer science researcher responsible for some of the earliest integrated graphical user interfaces (among other things), has made a $5,000 donation to the SHFT lab. The gift is targeted at supporting student assistants to collaborate with Dr. Masinter's Interlisp.org. Interlisp Medley was the first integrated window, mouse, and graphical user interface (GUI). Dr. Masinter and a team of volunteers are working on improvements to a emulator for the system and currently have it running for use in web browsers.

Interlisp.org is a 501c(3) non-profit devoted to the support and continued development of the Interlisp emulator. Students from CI will help the project migrate to new development environments and organize documentation for using the emulated system.

This year's SURF co-hort, consisting of Desireé Caldera, Adam Larson, and Morgan McMurray have completed their work in the use of emulation to retrieve legacy projects and files. The students worked for two months configuring emulated systems, researching archaic installation procedures, and meticulous documenting their workflows. This resulted in the configuration of emulated environments to support legacy projects from the [ETC Data Set Analysis] as well as items contributed by CI's University Library.

Student work on this project also informed Dr. Kaltman's NSF CAREER grant submission on emulation workflows.