by Javier Cánovas | Oct 10, 2019 | research, Community, Programming
General Programming Languages (GPLs), like Java, PHP, C++,… continuously evolve to adapt to the ever changing technology landscape. The evolution is rooted on technical aspects but it is ultimately decided by the group of people governing the language and...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 15, 2019 | research, Tool
Open data: are we there yet?. This was the title of a personal reflection on the present and future of open data, published in the blog of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. There, I argued that while the number of open data resources keeps growing at a fast...
by Eldan Cohen | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorized, Community, research
GitHub provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the collaboration patterns of software developers. Understanding collaboration patterns can support the design of better tools for collaborative coding and help measure developer’s productivity and impact. A...
by Noel Carroll | Mar 27, 2019 | Community, Process, research
Open Source software (OSS) has been highly prevalent in both practice and research. Given the value and effectiveness of OSS development to date, practitioners are keen to replicate these practices inside their respective corporations. This application of OSS...
by Jibesh Patra | Mar 20, 2019 | research, Tool
The web runs on JavaScript. In fact, some sources suggest that about 74% of all websites use some form of JavaScript library. The number of libraries for JavaScript applications has increased considerably over the last few years. When multiple JavaScript libraries are...
by Aditya Johri | Mar 5, 2019 | Community, research
The continuing digitization of work has resulted in renewed calls for those in the education profession to re-examine how people learn in digitized settings. Especially in computing and engineering fields, there is increasing interest to better understand how people...
