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Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions

Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan

In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017

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Learning to Represent Programs with Graphs

Miltos Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, Mahmoud Khademi

International Conference on Learning Representations 2018 | November 2017

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Programming the World

Michael Beigl, Florian Michahelles, Hide Tokuda, Steve Hodges

IEEE Computer | November 2017, Vol 50(11): pp. 14-17

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When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away)

Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, Denys Poshyvanyk

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | October 2017, Vol 43(11): pp. 1063-1088

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Programming by Examples: PL meets ML

Sumit Gulwani, Prateek Jain

APLAS 2017 | October 2017

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Microsoft @ LISA 2017

October 29, 2017 – November 3, 2017 | San Francisco, CA

Microsoft is a silver sponsor of LISA17, the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The program will address the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, curated…

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Optimizing Big-Data Queries Using Program Synthesis

Kaushik Rajan, Akash Lal, Matthias Schlaipfer (TU Wien), Malavika Samak (MIT)

ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | October 2017

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Geo-Distribution of Actor-Based Services

Phil Bernstein, Sebastian Burckhardt, Sergey Bykov, Natacha Crooks, Jose M. Faleiro, Gabriel Kliot, Alok Kumbhare, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Vivek Shah, Adriana Szekeres, Jorgen Thelin

Proc. ACM Program. Lang. | October 2017

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Microsoft Research Blog

2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps

October 24, 2017

On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year’s theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer…

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Microsoft Research @ HCOMP 2017

October 24, 2017 – October 26, 2017 | Quebec City, Quebec

We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…