Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Monday, December 1st, 2008
As reported earlier, the Computing Community Consortium asked people to submit "game-changing advances" from computer research. Results are now up on their site, and include:
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Search technology
Cluster computing
The transformation of science via computation
Secure communication
Mobile computing
Expert systems
Everyday robotics
Digital media
Mapping & navigation
Recommendation systems
Still nothing from software engineering, ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Via Jordi Cabot, a link to a SourceForge project called FLOSSmole that collates tons of information about open source projects to support empirical software engineering research. Very cool.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Computing Community Consortium's blog has a post today asking for help identifying game-changing research in computer science. I honestly can't think of anything from software engineering that's had the same kind of impact as the Web, search, cluster computing, or their other choices so far...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Via Science in the Open, a call for expressions of interest in running a research project on how Web 2.0 tools are changing scientific practice. Given the timelines (EoI's on November 3, project to start in December) it'll be hard to get a proposal in, but it'll be interesting to ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
One of my new grad students just mailed this around:
In the interest of fostering a better, more closely connected learning community with a vested interest in the academic well-being of all participants, I have installed a new device in my cubicle. This device shall be known as the Thesis Hat. ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
One Big Lab has a short review of LabMeeting.com, a tool to help PhD students organize papers they've read, discover new ones, share lab procedures, and so on. It was built by physics students; similar systems, like Ologeez and OpenWetWare, were built by geneticists and cell biologists respectively. I can't ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
WikidBASE is a database that can be shaped using wiki syntax. The video is a bit long, but worth watching; there are obvious applications to DrProject's new ticketing system.
Replay Solutions has a "capture and playback" debugging tool --- this interview in Doctor Dobb's Journal gives details, and this short video ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
My most recent grant proposal was shot down in its first review. Yes, I know, the competition for NSERC funding is increasingly fierce, but dammit, this would have helped a lot of scientists do a lot of good research, and I'm willing to bet that the ones that are finally ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I really did mean to blog more regularly about the research papers I'm reading... Oh well---here are the highlights from the last three months; together, they represent about 25% of what I've actually read. I haven't bothered hyperlinking, since many of them are behind paywalls, and the rest ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I've been blogging about undergrad projects pretty regularly, but not about the progress my graduate students have been making. In brief:
Samira is using Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to group events in a project's history (email messages, ticket changes, repository check-ins, etc.) into larger-scale events so that they'll be easier for ...
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