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Congratulations to Thomas Kwak!

June 2, 2017

Thomas successfully defended his master’s thesis on improving mining performance for Internet code search engines!

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Volunteering at ICSE 2016

May 22, 2016

Consuelo* with other ICSE volunteers. Mission accomplished! * standing third from left to right.

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Consuelo’s ICSE-2016 presentation

May 17, 2016

Consuelo presenting our research* on Crowd Design in ICSE crowdsourcing workshop (CSI-SE-2016).   * Toward Microtask Crowdsourcing Software Design Work Authors: Edgar R.Q. Weidema, Consuelo López, Sahand Nayebaziz, Fernando Spanghero and André van der Hoek  Photograph taken by Thomas La Toza (thanks!)

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SDCL team in data science hackathon

May 17, 2016

Thomas and Christian teamed up with undergraduate students Sreeja, Sid, and Chris to develop a tool that helps visualize mobility patterns of devices and apps on the city of New York. More about our project here: Tool wiki Tired happy faces after coding for 28 hours straight.

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Congratulations to Arturo Di Lecce!

April 28, 2016

Arturo recently defended and passed his MS thesis in crowd development!

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Affinity diagram session!

March 15, 2016

We have just categorized a few dozen sketches produced by a crowd of designers.

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Lee was awarded the IBM fellowship

March 11, 2016

Lee Martie (5th year Ph.D. student) was awarded the IBM fellowship. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study (more information can […]

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Congratulations Dr. Gerald!

March 6, 2016

Gerald Bortis defended and passed his PhD Thesis dissertation titled “PorchLight: A Tag-based Approach to Bug Triaging”. The defense took place last Friday and the committee was formed by André van der Hoek (Chair), Crista Lopes and James Jones. Congratulations Dr. Gerald!

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Congratulations, Sara!

March 2, 2016

Sara Triplett defended and passed her MS Thesis today. The tile of her talk was “Design Workspaces: Preserving and Recovering Meaning in Groups of Sketches” and the committee was formed by André van der Hoek (Chair), Marian Petre and James Jones. Congratulations Sara!

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Crowdsourcing affinity diagrams (again!)

February 25, 2016

We redecorated the conference room! We have just categorized around 250 sketches the CrowdDesign team collected in their second and latest experiment. It took 2h for a crowd of five people to do the job! We all enjoyed pizza after the hard work.

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