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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Conference Attendance SIGCSE 2018

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I have just finished attending SIGCSE 2018 in Baltimore.  In contrast to my earlier conference attendance, this time I have had higher invol...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

The Importance of Debugging

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How do you teach students about debugging?  To have  The Debugging Mind-Set ?  Can they reason about possible causes of incorrect behavior? ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Review: Languages and Code Quality in GitHub

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The study is several years old, but was recently reprinted in the Communications of the ACM.  In it, they mined GitHub data for active open ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

PhD Defense - Low-level Concurrent Programming Using the Relaxed Memory Calculus

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Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

PhD Defense - Automated Data-Driven Hint Generation for Learning Programming

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Kelly Rivers defended her PhD work this afternoon.  She will returning to CMU this fall as a teaching professor. Student enrollment is in...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Wrote my own Calling Convention

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I have been listening to the Dungeon Hacks audiobook , and it has both reminded of my past joys of playing Angband , as well as some interes...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

PhD Defense - Meeting Tail Latency SLOs in Shared Networked Storage

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Today I went to  Timothy Zhu 's PhD thesis defense.  His work is on achieving better sharing of data center resources to improve perform...