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The SEBoK v0.50 is Open for Public Review

_{On September 19, 2011 the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) was released at www.sebokwiki.org.  This is the second release of the SEBOK, with the final release planned for September 2012.}

_{The SEBoK is now published as a Wiki.  It is organized into 7 parts, 29 knowledge areas, and 115 topics.  This version has 7 case studies, 7 vignettes, and 5 use cases.  It contains 166 primary references, and hundreds of additional references.  The glossary contains 389 terms.  The SEBoK contains the efforts of over 60 authors representing six continents, and almost every corner of the SE community.} 

_{The current version benefited from over 3000 comments on Version 0.25,  from 114 reviewers.  With this release, we are opening our review processes world-wide.  Instructions for reviewing material are posted on each page.  We encourage you to review the SEBoK, and we would appreciate any and all comments you might have.  We will close this version for comments on December 15, 2011, so that we may prepare the next revision.}

_{The SEBoK has been supported by many organizations.  We gratefully acknowledge them.  INCOSE, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Systems Council, the Association for Computing Machinery, the National Defense Industrial Association, and the Systems Engineering Research Center were partner organizations in the development of the SEBoK.  Primary funding was provided by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, with significant contributions in kind coming from the home organizations of the authors. Stevens Institute and NPS, our home campuses, have been very supportive of our labors on this project over the past two years.} 

_{We are very proud of this version, but we recognize it still is not fully mature.  With your assistance, the SEBoK  can evolve to fully meet the needs of our community.}

_{Best wishes,}

_{Art Pyster   Dave Olwell}

_{Alice Squires  Nicole Hutchison}

_{Jim Anthony   Stephanie Enck}