Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I made a flying visit yesterday to the MathWorks (makers of MATLAB and other fine quantitative programming tools) to give a talk about Beautiful Code. It was a packed house; I'd estimate over 100 people took the time to come and listen to an overview of some of the book's ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Jeremy Handcock has posted a nice summary of his recent reading in information seeking. It's a fascinating topic, and some of these papers are really intriguing.
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Mark Doernhoefer writes a regular column for SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes called "Surfing the Web for Software Engineering Notes". I hadn't realized that all his links are online (though without his commentary, which is the real value add). Useful...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Spring has definitely started in Toronto --- it's 23 degrees outside (yes, Celsius), and the sky is that slightly dusty blue that I always associate with hot dogs, frisbees, and sunburn. It helps put this week's rejections in perspective:
NSERC turned down a proposal to study the usefulness of integrated IM, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
We're in the thick of picking students and projects for Google Summer of Code, which has inspired some less-random-than-usual thoughts. Here are two studies I'd like to do (or see done):
What has happened to previous students? How many are still involved in open source? How many have ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I had a lot of interesting conversations while at SIGCSE last week, but the best talk I attended was given by Microsoft's Andrew Begel, who spent a year studying the problems new college graduates face in their first software development job. The takeaway:
New developers' problems are mainly due to ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The Department of Computer Science held its second annual "Research in Action" showcase this afternoon; the lineup was pretty impressive:
Automated Protein Crystallography (Prof. Igor Jurisica, UHN Research Associate Christian A. Cumbaa)
Searching the Sky (Prof. Sam Roweis, Graduate Student Dustin Lang)
ShapeShop (Prof. Karan Singh, Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan, Graduate Student Ryan Schmidt)
Snowflock: ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Student teams in my consulting course this term have to produce a three-minute video of their work by the end of term: a screencast demo, a recorded PowerPoint show with voiceover, or anything else that moves. One reason I added this to the course is that video clips are ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Two messages below the announcement that Beautiful Code had won a Jolt award was a rejection notice from Google---it seems that exploring ways to integrate new technologies into software project portals like DrProject, SourceForge, and Google Code "...could not fit any of the research directions that Google is currently exploring". ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I realized this morning that I hadn't told the blogosphere what my graduate students have decided to work on. (I hope the fact that I realized this while cleaning crusty soap scum off a dishwasher says more about me than it does about my graduate students' choices...) In brief:
Jeremy Handcock ...
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