February 29 should be a time-freeze holiday. Nothing happens. No work, no deadlines, no stress. If the 28th is Wednesday, March 1 should be Thursday, and Feb 29 is not even a week day. A once every 4 years treat we give ourselves. A day of random acts of kindness.

In research, poor writing creates impact debt

Fixed mindset: People who know nothing think they know a lot. Growth mindset: People who know a lot think they know nothing.

A major hack was averted almost by accident. If you don't know, pretty much every programmer and software engineer in the world uses SSH. nytimes.com/2024/04/03/tec… #softwarematters

AI will do the laundry, dishes, and shopping, but will never do art, writing, or creative problem solving.

A old saying: “if you want something done, ask a busy person.” People forget the rest of that sentence: “… until they break.”

So much fun!

Releasing student’s pride at the end of the year

If it seems hard, that might be a sign it’s worth doing.

We can always do more. But can you do it better?

Young people want to be rich. Rich people want to be young.

Why cognitive overload happens?

Computer scientists: We built a digital fool who is constantly wrong and makes things up. Marketing: Great! Let’s put it into all our products! Software engineers: We call that beta testing.

Congratulations to Abram Magner from the College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering on receiving a Career Award grant from U.S. National Science Foundation for his project, "CAREER: Theoretical Foundations for Learning Network Dynamics." 📚🔍 Link in bio @nsfgov University at Albany #ResearchExcellence

Are you doing a PhD in software testing, verification, and validation and looking for feedback or networking opportunities? Consider joining the ICST'25 Doctoral Symposium! 🧑‍🎓💭 🪑 Chaired by Andrea Stocco@ICSE 25 and Tanja E.J. Vos 👀 Info: conf.researchr.org/track/icst-202… #ICST25 ICST

After teaching college for for 35 years, watching AI develop for 40 years, and seeing the reactions to ChatGPT, my take is simple: If your test questions can be answered by a robot, you need to ask more interesting questions.

I’m not sure which is worse: To believe something without evidence or to not believe something despite the evidence.

It's time for something new💡! We are happy to announce a new submission category at #SoSyM: Tool Papers 🛠️ Articles can address any aspect of innovative software tools and systems. Find more details here: sosym.org/tool_paper/ We're looking forward to your #tool articles!

My first programming teacher gave me my first, and maybe the best, programming advice. “Programmers learn the most by making mistakes. And at the rate you’re going, Jeff, you’re on track to becoming a great programmer.”

🚨Practical SE research alert!🚨 Do you use ChatGPT to help complete software development tasks, like fixing bugs? We want to understand why! Help us by completing this 10–15 minute survey: go.gmu.edu/ChatGPTUse   IRBNet #: 2215589-1  #ChatGPT #SoftwareDevelopment