Category Archives: Academia

Nature – Climate Change

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

There is a new journal from Nature on topics (physical and social) surrounding climate change. In the first issue, Kurt Kleiner has a pretty good essay on open data and open climate software. Among his interviewees are Steve Easterbrook and … Continue reading →

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Then a Miracle Occurs?

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

I think one of the reasons that make many people uncomfortable with qualitative research lies in the difficulty of doing data analysis properly. You prepare a study design with carefully worded research questions, you have a bunch of interview guides, … Continue reading →

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Like learning Old Norse

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Since I’m doing fieldwork at a software organization these days, I have very present in my mind the difficulty of getting my bearings in a new environment. Several researchers have reported of these difficulties in the case of newcomers to … Continue reading →

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Publishing into the void

Posted on February 11, 2011 by

A few days ago, Greg Wilson tweeted: When is the last time you read something in an ACM or IEEE journal that changed how you program or the tools you use? Ever? The answer is never, in my case. I … Continue reading →

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The thorny and the obvious

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

This discussion between Laurent Bossavit and Steve McConnell makes for very interesting reading: Bossavit critiques McConnell’s Making Software chapter on differences in programming productivity (original in French here), arguing that the studies it cites do not establish as a fact … Continue reading →

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Call for papers: CHASE 2011

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

Another call for papers—this one for the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2011); a workshop that is co-located with ICSE and is always more interesting than the main conference itself, and for which … Continue reading →

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Call for papers: Web2SE 2011

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

I’m in the Program Committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering. (Web2SE 2011), co-located with ICSE. Please consider submitting your work—here is the abstract of the call for papers: Social software is built around an … Continue reading →

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