Context as an Antidote to Information Overload

Speaker:	Professor Gail Murphy
		University of British Columbia

Title:		"Context as an Antidote to Information Overload"

Date:		Monday, 21 March 2011

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

Software developers who perform evolution tasks on a software system face
an avalanche of information daily. These developers must deal with
multiple source code elements, bug reports, system test data, questions
from team members, and so on. Information mined from the historical
archives of a development can provide helpful cues to developers as they
perform their work, but how can this historical information be delivered
effectively given the already overwhelming amount of information facing
developers? In this talk, I will describe how various representations of a
developer's context can help manage information overload, improve team
awareness and provide an anchor for interpreting historical project
information.


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Biography:

Gail Murphy is a Professor in the Department of a Computer Science at the
University of British Columbia. She received a B.Sc. degree from the
University of Alberta and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Washington.  She works primarily on building simpler and more effective
tools to help developers manage software evolution tasks.  She has
received the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize, an NSERC Steacie Fellowship,
a CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award and a UW College of Engineering
Diamond Early Career Award. In 2008, she served as the program chair for
the ACM SIGSOFT FSE Conference and will serve as the co-program chair for
the ICSE 2012 conference. One of the most rewarding parts of her career
has been collaborating with many very talented graduate and undergraduate
students. She is also a co-founder, and currently CFO, of Tasktop
Technologies Incorporated.