by jordicabot | Jan 3, 2025 | doing research, Research Rants
Sustainability of open source is a known challenge and one that depends on a project’s capability to attract a community of contributors (and not only coders). A common strategy to smooth the onboarding of new contributions is by tagging some project issues as...
by jordicabot | Feb 4, 2024 | doing research, Research Rants
Artificial Intelligence papers are taking over many software conferences. We have recently seen this extreme case: Software engineering is dead, long live ChatGPT 😉 https://t.co/L5BUnsYFug pic.twitter.com/Aq4Y36dAVK — JB (@JBezivin) February 2, 2024 Even if the...
by jordicabot | Jan 30, 2023 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
Research is a collaborative effort. This is clear. But I confess I have a soft spot for single-author papers. When I was growing up (as a researcher) I admired the leader of my group for consistently publishing papers on his own in the top conferences in our area...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2022 | philosophy, publishing, Research Rants
More and more papers are published every year. Just look at the graphic above (and DBLP already does a good job in filtering out most predatory journals!). It’s probably true that we publish more high-quality research than ever. But it’s also true that we...
by jordicabot | Aug 23, 2021 | presenting, Research Rants
The research community is now discussing whether conferences should be back to being in-person, continue as virtual or follow some kind of hybrid model. I have a different proposal. I suggest taking this opportunity to “kill” a bunch of conferences. Even...
by jordicabot | Nov 2, 2020 | publishing, evaluating research, Research Rants
This year, we got two best demo awards: Gadolinium: Monitoring Non-Functional Properties of REST APIs won the best poster/demo award at ICWE 2020 PapyGame: Let’s Play Modeling won the best demo award at Models 2020 And I’m proud of it. You may think that...
