Debugging Expert Wins ACM Dissertation Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @03:32PM from the just-a-programmer-with-a-really-big-shoe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is reporting that Ben Liblit has been awarded the 2005 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his study on understanding and fixing software 'bugs' in the real world. From the article: 'Liblit's dissertation proposes a method for leveraging the key strength of user communities - their overwhelming numbers. His approach uses sparse random sampling rather than complete data collection for gathering information from the experiences of large numbers of software end users. It also simultaneously ensures that the observed data is an unbiased, representative subset of the complete program behavior across all runs.' Slashdot broke the story on this research back in 2003. Apparently the project is still going strong."

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HI, my name's Dave by threedognit3 · 2006-03-21 16:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I have a doctorial thesis up for review and evaluation. Thank you for inviting me here to discuss my thesis. To be honest... This thesis is a composite of what has been offered to me by Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, OpenSource and companies who wish not to be named..cough SUN...cough..SUN. Uh..what? Questions?...please see the index and feel free to look at the appendix. Thank you for the compliments...is that a Oracle teamwear shirt you're wearing?