| 2015 | ICSE | Cross-Technology, Cross-Layer Defect Detection in IT Systems - Challenges and Achievements. | Philippe-Emmanuel Douziech, Bill Curtis |
| 2014 | ICSE | A career spent wading through industry's empirical ooze (invited talk). | Bill Curtis |
| 2014 | ITC | Delivering security by design in the Internet of Things. | Bill Curtis |
| 2013 | ICSE | 1st international workshop on conducting empirical studies in industry (CESI 2013). | Xavier Franch, Nazim H. Madhavji, Bill Curtis, Larry Votta |
| 2012 | ICSE | Estimating the size, cost, and types of technical debt. | Bill Curtis, Jay Sappidi, Alexandra Szynkarski |
| 2011 | ICSE | An evaluation of the internal quality of business applications: does size matter? | Bill Curtis, Jay Sappidi, Jitendra Subramanyam |
| 2000 | ICSE | From MCC and CMM: technology transfers bright and dim. | Bill Curtis |
| 2000 | ICSE | Software process improvement (tutorial session): best practices and lessons learned. | Bill Curtis |
| 2000 | PROFES | Keynote Address: The Cascading Benefits of Software Process Improvement. | Bill Curtis |
| 1997 | ICSE | Software Process Improvement: Methods and Lessons Learned (Tutorial). | Bill Curtis |
| 1994 | ICSE | A Process for Hitting Paydirt. | Bill Curtis |
| 1991 | CHI | Retrospective on the MCC Human Interface Laboratory. | Bill Curtis, Roy Kuntz, Jim Hollan, S. Joy Mountford, George Collier |
| 1991 | ICSE | Techies as Non-Technological Factors in Software Engineering? | Bill Curtis |
| 1991 | ICSE | Non-Technological Issues in Software Engineering. | Marc I. Kellner, Bill Curtis, Tom DeMarco, Kouichi Kishida, Maurice Schlumberger, Colin Tully |
| 1989 | CHI | CHI research at MCC. | Jim Hollan, Bill Curtis |
| 1989 | ICSE | Three Problems Overcome with Behavioral Models of the Software Development Process. | Bill Curtis |
| 1988 | CHI | Control of cognitive processes during software design: what tools are needed? | Raymonde Guindon, Bill Curtis |
| 1987 | CHI | Computer-supported cooperative work (panel): is this REALLY a new field of research? | Irene Greif, Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, Thomas W. Malone, Ben Shneiderman |
| 1987 | ICSE | On Building Software Process Models Under the Lamppost. | Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, Vincent Y. Shen, Neil Iscoe |
| 1986 | CHI | Human computer interaction in the year 2000. | John Thomas, John Seely Brown, William Buxton, Bill Curtis, Thomas K. Landauer |
| 1986 | CSCW | Panel session on collaborative design: technology futures. | Herb Krasner, John Tang, Bill Curtis, Chris Bullen, Walt Scacchi |
| 1984 | ICSE | Fifteen Years of Psychology in Software Engineering: Individual Differences and Cognitive Science. | Bill Curtis |
| 1984 | ICSE | Productivity Factors and Programming Environments. | J. Vosburgh, Bill Curtis, R. Wolverton, Barbara Albert, H. Malec, S. Hoben, Y. Liu |
| 1982 | CHI | A review of human factors research on programming languages and specifications. | Bill Curtis |
| 1981 | ICSE | The Effects of Symbology and Spatial Arrangement on the Comprehension of Software Specifications. | Sylvia B. Sheppard, Elizabeth Kruesi, Bill Curtis |
| 1979 | ICSE | Third Time Charm: Stronger Replication of the Ability of Software Complexity Metrics to Predict Programmer Performance. | Bill Curtis, Sylvia B. Sheppard, Phil Milliman |