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CrowdConf 2013

October 23, 2013

  Thomas La Toza and Christian Adriano have just attended CrowdConf. We received very interesting feedback on our CrowdCode platform. We also had extremely engaging conversations with people working on challenging crowdsourcing problems.

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SCALE at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center

October 9, 2013

The SDCL just attended the SCALE conference at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. There we had the great opportunity to share our current work on on crowd development, crowd debugging, and social-technical code search. We also had the privilege to hear interesting talks and have engaging discussion by and with IBMers and other SCALE members.

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Article published in Empirical Software Engineering Journal

October 1, 2013

Looking to evaluate a software engineering tool in a study with developers? Check out our new ESE journal article for options, standard practices, and tradeoffs, grounded in a literature review of over 1700 software engineering papers. article

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Welcome Namrata!

September 29, 2013

We are very excited to welcome Namrata Puri to the laboratory. She is joining us as a new M.S. student and will be working on the UI of CodeExchange.

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Congrats Dr. Nick!

September 18, 2013

Congratulations to Nick Mangano, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled ‘Calico: an early-phase software design tool’ on September 18, with a committee of Gary Olson, David Redmiles, and Marian Petre (in addition to his advisor, of course). After 6 years of very hard work, Nick is now off to make a commercial version of […]

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CrowdCode at CrowdConf

September 11, 2013

Our abstract, CrowdCode: A platform for crowd development, was selected for both a poster and a talk at CrowdConf! Hope to see you in San Francisco.

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FuSE 2013

July 23, 2013

We attended the FuSE 2013 conference at Microsoft Research! Lots of interesting talks and engaging discussions on the future of software engineering.  

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ISR Research Forum

May 30, 2013

SDCL is excited to welcome visitors to our lab for the ISR Research Forum. We have demos lined up of several of our research projects and are looking forward to exchanging ideas with both fellow researchers and developers from industry. If you’re in Irvine, we hope to see you there!

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ICSE 2013

May 24, 2013

Six members of the SDCL, Gerald Bortis, Lee Martie, Christian Adriano, Nicolas Lopez, Thomas LaToza, and André van der Hoek, as well as one of our alumni, Alfredo Motta, attended ICSE 2013. We presented papers and posters in a variety of the tracks and subevents, and had great conversations with our colleagues.

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Lionel Briand visit

May 17, 2013

Lionel Briand visited the SDCL as part of his visit as an ISR Distinguished Speaker. Once more, we had great interactions and discussions about our research.

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