Stop falling asleep listening to other people’s conference talks. Come to a meeting to write a paper with your colleagues. Come to LiveWrite'26. One page abstracts due July20.
conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2026/…

VERIFAI '26: laser-foundation.org/verifai-26/

deadline: 20 December 2025

Truth is shorter than fiction. The first image is what ChatGPT proposed as a command line parse. The second is mine (half the size). Apologies for any bugs but you see the pattern?

here's one with a better error report (hope no one minds a walrus)

sorry. arg[1].isalnum() ==> arg[1].isalpha()

End of an era. Graduation of all my Covid era PhDs: @KewenPeng ,@AndreLustosa, @KewenPeng . Not even a pandemic could stop them. Celebrating with their families and spouses.

And so Xueqi Yang as well!

Please join with me to congratulate NC State's latest Master Graduate🎓 Lohith Senthilkumar! 🚀🤖📚

His slides: Can Large Language Models Improve SE Active Learning via Warm Starts? 🔥
docs.google.com/presentation/d…📷

paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00125

Update on Doctoral Symposium! Extended deadline!
Virtual Event! Accepted submissions to appear in ESEM ’25 proceedings.

Join us to discuss work, ask questions of senior researchers, receive feedback on topics + plan #ESEM2025

Here's one I've dreamt of for a while: a LISP variant of "let" that handles let*, labels, multiple-value-bind. Built with perplexiity.ai. FYI it required much wrangling and testing, but the key expansion tactic seen at end of "lets" was all its idea (impressive).

Got any other cool LISP macros ? My one fav is to make "self" the first defmethod arg then use

(set-macro-character #\$
#'(lambda (s _) `(slot-value self ',(read s t nil t))))

so self's slots can be accessed/changed using just $slot

Leaving #Kona after ?10days of sleeping late, swimming in ocean, sunsets at ocean cafes, then back for cheese toasties in my mountain hut. :-)

That white fuzz on top of my skull is brain matter, no longer needed, dissolving in the sunlight

Empirical SE Doctoral Symposium.
For early- and mid-stage PhD students.

Come discuss work, ask questions of senior researchers, receive feedback on topics + plans.

Submissions due Apr1
Accepted submissions to appear in ESEM ’25 proceedings.

conf.researchr.org/track/esem-202…

Doctoral symposiums! Great place to learn new things, grow as a professional, network, and get mentoring.

So r u an early- and mid-stage in PhD ? Want to discuss your work, ask questions of senior folk, get constructive feedback on your plans? conf.researchr.org/track/esem-202…

To appear, @ieeetse, Retrospective: Data Mining Static Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors.
- toasters predict for errors in satellites
- the best thing for data is to throw it away
- data quality matters less
- science has mud on the lens
- many hard SE problems, aren’t

"Dear Dr. Menzies
It is my privilege to confirm your elevation to ACM Fellow. Fellow is ACM's highest membership grade. The number of Fellows is limited and the criteria are very strict. Congratulations on this very significant honor."

I have so many people to thank...

Can you find the cat?