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Ben Zorn and Tom Ball hosted the Pacific Northwest Programming Languages and Software Engineering workshop at Microsoft Research Redmond in Building 99 on May 14, 2018.
Microsoft Research received the 2016 IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Synergy Award “presented annually to a team for outstanding and/or sustained contributions that stand as a model in the software engineering community of effective partnership between industry and universities.”
CRA Women Celebrates Women’s History Month features interview with Kathryn McKinley
Project Premonition aims to use mosquitoes, drones, cloud computing to prevent disease outbreaks [video] [article]
Awards
2017
Skolem Award – CADE-21 (2007): Leonardo de Moura and Nikolaj Bjørner – Efficient E-Matching for SMT Solvers
2016
Mining Software Repositories’ 2016 Most Influential Paper Award for Mining Email Social Networks by Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan
ICSE 2016 Distinguished Paper Award for Guiding Dynamic Symbolic Execution Toward Unverified Program Executions by Maria Christakis and co-authors
Maria Christakis‘s Ph.D. thesis was nominated by ETH for the Gesellschaft für Informatik prize for best dissertation
2015
ESEC/FSE 2015 Distinguished Paper, How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research, David Lo, Nachi Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
SIGPLAN Research Highlight (May 2015), Parallelizing dynamic programming through rank convergence, Saeed Maleki, Madanlal Musuvathi, Todd Mytkowicz
Nachi Nagappan named a 2015 ACM Distinguished Scientist
The 2015 ACM Programming Languages Software Award goes to Christoph Wintersteiger, Leonardo de Moura, and Nikolaj Bjorner of MSR for their foundational work on the Z3 automated theorem prover, which powers several generations of testing, analysis and verification tools.
Guiness Book of World Records: The most people trained in computer programming in 8 hours was achieved at the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Coding Camp, an event organized by Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, USA on 30 July 2015 (using www.touchdevelop.com)
SIGPLAN PLDI 2015 Distinguished Artifact Award, FlashRelate: extracting relational data from semi-structured spreadsheets using examples, Daniel W. Barowy, Sumit Gulwani, Ted Hart, and Benjamin Zorn
2014
2014 CAV Award “For the development of partial-order reduction algorithms for efficient state-space exploration of concurrent systems”, Patrice Godefroid, Doron Peled, Antti Valmari, Pierre Wolper
ICSE 2014 Most Influential Paper Award, Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes, Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weissgerber, Stephan Diehl and Andreas Zeller
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FMCAD Best Paper Award. Akash Lal and Shaz Qadeer, A Program Transformation for Faster Goal-Directed Search, in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), FMCAD, October 2014.
2014 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award, for Kathryn McKinley’s paper “Myths and Realities: The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection” co-authored with Steve Blackburn and Perry Cheng which appeared originally in SIGMETRICS June 2004.
FSE 2014 Distinguished Paper: Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Charles Sutton, Learning Natural Coding Conventions
FSE 2014 Distinguished Paper: Akask Lal, Shaz Qadeer, Powering the Static Driver Verifier using Corral
