CSER and CASCON

This past Sunday and Monday I went to a meeting of the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER). Popular topics there were empirical software engineering, research ethics, diagnostics, and models and visualization. There were a couple of talks from Peggy Storey and Ian Bull, from the University of Victoria’s Chisel Group, which has built some [...]

Dagstuhl

Last week I was in Germany for a Dagstuhl Seminar on Methods for Modelling Software Systems. It was both quite fun and quite productive. I had the chance to talk to researchers whose work I’ve been studying since I started my Ph.D., and to get feedback from them regarding my own interests.
I guess part of [...]

What is this all about?

I hereby declare that this shall be a blog about:

Seemingly disconnected research in Cognitive Science, Psychology, Sociology and Human Factors
The way all these disciplines come together and impact Software Engineering
The silliness of my poor little mind, thinking it can study and measure all these very fuzzy interactions in time to finish a Ph.D.
…and about other [...]