Paul Krill, "Microsoft, IBM highlight software development advances", InfoWorld, 07/09/2009, html, and local pdf. (Mentions Brad Myers's talk about end-user programming).
Our press release about Apatite and Jadeite was reproduced in at least 34 places, and translated into Chinese, Danish and Italian!
Chris Douce, "Natural Programming Project," Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) Newsletter, January, 2008. http://www.ppig.org/newsletters/2008-01.html
Alan Cohen, "Software Is Too Buggy and Unreliable," part of the special
section on "The Ten Biggest Problems in Computing and How We'll Solve Them",
PC Magazine, August 23, 2005. Vol. 24, no. 14, pp. 86-87. Also on
PCMag.com.
Anne Watzman, "Ko, Aung and Myers Win Best Paper Award At International Conference on Software Engineering". CMU Press Release. May 23, 2005. html
The "Knowledge Encapsulation System", a commercial product of Software Theories, specifically references our paper as an influence.
Mike Crissey, "Researchers aim to make debugging simpler", Associated Press, July 26, 2004. Appears in Salon.com and MSNBC and CNN and CBSNews.com and Forbes.com and USAToday.com, and Detroit News (August 15, 2004), and Melbourne,Victoria,Australia Herald Sun, and Gadgetopia, and 404 Magazine (in German), etc.
Sebastian Rupley, "Debugging for the Masses", PC Magazine Online, May 14, 2004. html. Reprinted in Yahoo News
David Hart, "Researchers to Help Exterminate Bugs in Spreadsheets, Web Applications." NSF Press Release NSF PR 04-065 - May 05, 2004. html. Also reprinted in:
may 2009 —
We got three papers into VL/HCC'2009!
may 2009 —
Apatite won first place in the "Yahoo! Undergraduate Research Awards"
competition at Carnegie Mellon University, May 6, 2009!
Here is a picture of Dan Eisenberg with his winning poster:
nov 2008 —
Our study of object oriented design and API usability was presented at FSE 2008.
sept 2008 —
We presented four papers at VL/HCC this year! Two on Euclase and two on API usability.
may 2008 —
The Java Whyline is available for download!
april 2008 —
Our Java Whyline paper at ICSE '08 won a Distinguished Paper Award!
september 2007 —
Brad gave an overview lecture on the Natural Programming Project at Stanford. See the video (1hr24min).
march 2007 —
Three ICSE'2007 papers! One on the factory pattern, one on the create-set-call pattern and one on information needs.
april 2006 —
Brad gave an end-user programming overview talk at CHI '06
january 2006 —
We had two CHI papers accepted: one on Barista and one on Crystal!
may 2005 —
Our paper on a study of maintenance tasks won one of four distinguished paper awards at ICSE 2005!
april 2005 —
Our paper on building statistical models of programmers' interruptibility won one of four best paper awards at CHI 2005!
august 10th, 2005 —
PC Magazine is running an article in print and on the web about the 10 biggest problems with PCs, and debugging is one of them. They mention the Whyline and have a picture of us.
june 28th, 2004 —
CNN has posted the Associated Press article on the Whyline! Check out the response on Slashdot.org. Most comments seemed to think the Whyline has something to do with "plain English," but of course, it doesn't.
may 14th, 2004 —
PC Mag has a story on the EUSES consortium called "Debugging for the Masses", which talks about the Whyline.
may 7th, 2004 —
Tom Chi of ok-cancel.com mentioned the Whyline in his CHI 2004 highlights. Thanks Tom!
may 6th, 2004 —
NSF has posted a press release about the EUSES consortium, which includes a bit about the Whyline.
april 27th, 2004 —
The Whyline was presented at CHI 2004 in Vienna, Austria. A video demonstration of the Whyline will be posted soon!
october 2002 —
Brad Myers's ICFP'02 Talk on Natural Programming