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Visitors from The Netherlands

April 8, 2014

Luxi and Micky are master students from the University of Amsterdam. They will spend four months with us researching how to crowdsource software design activities. Welcome!

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Tablet tower to server tower

April 1, 2014

What do you do when you need to do a lot of parallel data processing but cloud services are just too expensive? Turn your lab’s tablets into servers, of course!

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Marian Petre visit

March 30, 2014

Our long-term collaborator Marian Petre from The Open University visited us last week. Her insights are always much appreciated and we already look forward to her next visit!

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Welcome Mengyao and John

February 3, 2014

Mengyao is a first year Ph.D. student in Informatics. She is interested in doing research in design practice, more specifically the creative nature of it. John is a first year M.S. student in Computer Science. He is interested in doing research in software architecture, particularly the field of software as a service (SaaS). Welcome!

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New Scholarships

February 3, 2014

Congratulations to Nick Lopez and Christian Adriano, who were recently granted the 2014 Miguel Velez scholarship.

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Visit to MobileWorks

December 8, 2013

Thomas visited MobileWorks, a Berkeley based startup providing a platform for microtask crowdsourcing. Thomas gave a demo of CrowdCode and had a great discussion!

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New workshop on Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering

December 8, 2013

Thomas is co-organizing a new workshop on Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE), in conjunction with ICSE 2014. The workshop will be a one day event with invited talks, a poster and demos session, and a crowd-based working session giving participants the opportunity to explore the application of crowdsourcing to software engineering and begin to forge […]

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Paper on Calico to appear at CHI 2014!

December 8, 2013

Our paper, Supporting Informal Design with Interactive Whiteboards, was accepted for inclusion at CHI 2014! Hope to see you in Toronto!

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2013 ACM Distinguished Scientists

November 20, 2013

André was recognized as one of the 2013 ACM Distinguished Scientists. A big congratulations to André! ACM announcement

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Visit to GE Research

October 23, 2013

SDCL visited GE Research labs in San Ramon. We presented our recent work on software design collaboration and crowd coding. We also had the opportunity to discuss interesting industry challenges in the fields of user experience and collaboration technology. We kindly thank Roberto Silveira for all the awesome meetings we had with his research peers.

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