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Sage UX - How Anthropology Can Improve Your UX Practice
Annette Priest discusses applying anthropology to UX practice, and shares tips for getting the answers you need, research ethics and lessons learned from working with different teams and cultures.
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Cognitive Architectures: A Way Forward for the Psychology of Programming
Michael Hansen presents the ACT-R cognitive architecture, a simulation framework for psychological models, showing how it could be used to measure the impact of various programming paradigms.
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Liberating the Programmer with Prorogued Programming
Mehrdad Afshari introduces prorogued programming, a new programming paradigm based on 3 principles: proroguing concerns, hybrid computation and executable refinement.
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Reverend Bayes, Meet Countess Lovelace: Machine Learning and Programming
Andy Gordon discusses machine learning using functional programming, explaining how Infer.NET Fun turns the succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language for Bayesian machine learning.
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F# Big Data Scripting
Matthew Moloney shares some of the F# tools built at Microsoft Research for dealing with Big Data.
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Staged Program Development
K. Rustan M. Leino advocates developing in stages by using languages that offer both design level abstractions – types, contracts, higher-level constructs, ghost constructs- and implementation ones.
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Automated Trend line Generation for Accurate Software Effort Estimation
Karthikeyan Ponnalagu presents Estimation Key Map, an automated technique for software project estimation based on a parametric model using historical data.
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High-quality, Impactful, Fast UX Research for Engineers
Tomer Sharon discusses the psychology of attitude & behavior and shares tips for conducting a high-quality, impactful, and fast UX research.
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Concrete Syntax Matters
Steven Kelly discusses designing languages for humans based on insight from cognitive and empirical research.
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A Discussion of Basic vs. Applied Research in the Software Domain and the Creation of Erlang
Bjarne Däcker recounts the story of CSLab at Ericsson, the birthplace or Erlang, how it started, some of the projects leading to Erlang, and its eventual success inside Ericsson as Erlang/OTP.
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Crimes Against Humanity, Writ Small
The Milgram experiments revealed a number of exploitable weaknesses in human psychology. Matt Knox talks about those weaknesses, their exploitation, consequences, and aftermath.
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Project Fortress: Run your whiteboard, in parallel, on the JVM
David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based HPC programming language. Topics include Fortress origins, running on the JVM, work stealing, transactions, continuations and the type system