Research
We were asked to produce slides for the video wall in the entrance of our building, in order to convey our research to visitors in a visual and succinct way. Here are the ones I produced with colleagues (click on ‘menu’ to view full screen):
Some pleasant news yesterday: two of my co-authored papers are among the 15 most downloaded papers from our institutional open access repository during March. The first is our CSMR’10 paper about an empirical study investigating whether bad identifiers somehow relate to less good code quality (more details in a previous blog entry). The paper was [...]
Our PhD student Simon Butler has been looking at whether there is some relation between poor identifiers (e.g. that are too short or don’t use dictionary words) and code quality. The hypothesis is that poor identifiers may reflect less than optimal understanding of the problem or of the domain and in turn may impact on [...]
// Load the Visualization API and the individual visualization libraries google.load(‘visualization’, ’1′, {‘packages’:['columnchart','linechart']}); // Set a callback to run when the API is loaded. google.setOnLoadCallback(getData); // Get a sub-table from a Google spreadsheet function getView(select, source, callback) { var query = new google.visualization.Query(source); query.setQuery(select); query.send(callback); } // get and draw all the views var major [...]
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Our new part-time online MPhil in Computing, starting in October 2009, is now accepting registrations. It uses the Open University’s virtual learning environment (an extension of Moodle) and a virtual campus on Second Life. More details at the MPhil’s website.
The third issue of our department’s bi-annual research highlights newletter is now available. It features our amazing climb up the ladder of the UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise, our major grants, publications and event organisation in the past 6 months. It’s certainly a welcome reminder of how well we’re doing, a nice little morale booster in [...]
The industrial experience paper my MSc student Ireo and I submitted to the ICSE workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge was accepted! The reviewers asked us to clarify the scope of the assumption management approach we present (i.e. whether it’s confined to agile development and architectural knowledge) and to expand on the lessons learned [...]
Some good news arrived just before the day ends: the paper we submitted to the New Ideas and Emerging Results track of the Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering was accepted! It’s about applying formal concept analysis to get automatically a intuitive visual ‘hierarchy’ of developers , and how one might want to use the hierarchy, [...]
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