NB: Topics have been assigned and we are not accepting any more students for this semester.

This is a seminar for Masters students in the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science as well as Bachelors, Masters and PhD students completing their project work or thesis in the Software Composition Group. Scheduled talks generally cover recent progress in project work or research. The seminar normally takes place on Tuesdays at 10h15 in room 107, Schützenmattstrasse 14).

Due to the large number of participants, this semester (Fall 2016) the seminar will exceptionally be held in E8-003.

Learning Outcomes

The seminar consists of a project and a presentation. You will have as a mentor one of the members of the SCG and will work on a practical and focused problem in the domain of programming languages and programer productivity tools.

Seminar students will work on a small, supervised project during the semester. Due to the high cost of supervision, participation is strictly limited (selection will be based on the results of a short quiz).

After the successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Build an Eclipse plugin for static analysis, or
• Write a crawler that analyzes open source software repositories, or
• Create a new method of visualizing software systems, or
• Work on the design and implementation of programming language tools

Scheduled Talks

• Sept 27
  • Cédric Vonesch — Commercial CAS programming environments: a brief comparison
  • Leonel Merino — MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization
• Oct 25 — Oscar leaves at 11h00 for a PhD defense
• Nov 01 — Silas Berger — Visually Mining Scientific Communities
• Nov 29 — NB: 003 is unavailable; meeting in S14-107

2016

Talks already given in 2016

• Sept 20 — MSc seminar topic presentations and obligatory quiz.
• Aug 16 - Nevena Milojković — Inferring Types by Mining Class Usage Frequency from Inline Caches
• Aug 09 - Max Leske — Improving live debugging of concurrent threads
• July 5
  • Dominik Seliner — EggShell — a workbench for the assessment of modeling pipelines for scientific communities
  • Cedric Walker — Recognizing structural patterns in code
• June 14 - Michael Rüfenacht — Error Handling in PEGs
• May 31 - Pascal Giehl — Visualizing Collaboration Networks
• May 24 - Michael Jungo — Analyzing Duck Typing
• May 17 - David Wettstein — Mining API Evolution
• Apr 26 - Roger Stebler - Understanding how developers use the debugger
• Apr 19 - Manuel Leuenberger — Null: When Nothing Gives You a Headache
• Apr 12 - Max Leske — Debugging Asynchronous Processes
• Mar 22 - Lina Tran — Where did this null come from???
• Feb 26 - Boris Spasojević — A Case Study on Type Hints in Method Argument Names in Pharo Smalltalk Projects
• Feb 23 - Seminar introduction
• Feb 16 - Thomas Steinmann — Polite Smalltalk; Dominic Sina — TestView Plugin
• Jan 26 - Linus Schwab — Using RSS Feeds to Support Second Language Acquisition
• Jan 19 - Andreas Hohler — Teamizer: Developing a suitable schedule and poll platform for the sports club Unihockey Lohn
• Jan 05 - Nevena Milojković — Type inference heuristics

See also: Past Seminars