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January 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The January 2008 issue of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) has a small ’spotlight’ note on my research of software companies and scientific research groups.

It also features a very positive review of the book Beautiful Code, which I recommended in this blog as well a couple of posts ago.

Categories: Academia · Software development

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Why We Disagree About Climate Change December 3, 2009

I’ve just finished reading Mike Hulme’s Why We Disagree About Climate Change (update: you can listen to Hulme discuss some of the book’s topics here. Thanks Jon!) and felt I had to recommend it to anybody that is interested in this issue. What a marvelous, thought-provoking book. It was not an easy read. I don’t mean [...]

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Against SEMAT November 29, 2009

There is a call for action making the rounds among software researchers. You may have heard of it: it goes by the name of SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory); Ivar Jacobson presents it as a “revolution” whose “goal is to re-found software engineering as a rigorous discipline.” You can read the call for action [...]

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Second Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change November 26, 2009

Here is another ICSE 2010 workshop you should be interested in: the Second Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change. The call for papers is just out –you might find it a bit unusual that there will not be a formal publication of the proceedings but the intent of the workshop is to create a lively [...]

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Web 2.0 for Software Engineering November 26, 2009

The list of workshops for ICSE 2010 is out, and though many of them look very interesting I’d like to point your attention towards the workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering. Here’s the abstract: Social software is built around an “architecture of participation” where user data is aggregated as a side-effect of using Web 2.0 [.. […]

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Bad surveys November 15, 2009

Yesterday, a grad student asked me whether I could answer a survey he was doing for his research. I’ve struggled getting participants in the past, and seeing that the survey would only take a couple of minutes, I accepted. It was a survey about the urban design of a particular place at the University of Toronto, [...]

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Global warming scepticism and academic intolerance October 28, 2009

Someone very dear to me told me, a few weeks ago, that he had noticed I was becoming more and more intolerant with several positions and people —among them, climate change deniers. He felt it wasn’t fitting for a scientist, a person supposed to examine the facts objectively and to be a professional doubter, to [...]

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Workshop on Software Research on Climate Change October 26, 2009

Today was (still is, at the time of writing) the 1st Workshop on Software Research on Climate Change, down in Florida. Jon Pipitone and I planned to attend remotely, skype-ing in, but never got around to make it work satisfactorily: our connection kept getting dropped, perhaps due to bad connectivity at the conference centre. In any [...]

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This is an advertisement October 22, 2009

The company my brother works for has just released a website called This is an Advertisement: This is an Advertisement is a site where the ads are the content. It’s as simple (and counterintuitive) as that. We believe ads are useful and even entertaining — valuable information that should be available when we want and need [...]

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The Size of a Software Organization September 15, 2009

Measuring something as simple as the size of a software organization turns out to be a tricky problem. It’s clear to see that while IBM, Microsoft, and Google are “large”, the company my friends and I started when we finished our undergrads was “small”. But as I will show, beyond these basic comparisons it’s hard [...]

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The Hot Yam! at NOW magazine August 27, 2009

More on good food: NOW magazine has just reviewed the Hot Yam!, an amazing one-day-a-week eatery at the University of Toronto that’s very close to my heart. It’s an extremely positive and well deserved review. Congratulations everyone, and if you haven’t tried it yet you must! Thursdays, noon to 2pm. [...]

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