Austin Henley
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AI and developer tools⚡️ex startup, ex Microsoft, ex professor
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My PhD advisor taught me *a lot*. I wrote down a few of the lessons to pass them on to my own PhD students.
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I'm sharing my NSF CAREER proposal and the thoughts that went into the writing.
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How about a blog post on algorithms to get us into the holiday spirit?
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I resigned from my faculty position.
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New job! I’ve joined Microsoft as a Senior PM on the PROSE team. I’ll be helping transition program synthesis research into products. Here we go!
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Strange turn of events: I declined the NSF CAREER Award. The holy grail of grants. I would have never seen this coming! Here's to starting a new adventure soon. 🙂
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We tested *a lot* of different ways to show AI code suggestions to users.
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I’m a little behind on this, but I left my dream job.
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It takes quitting academia to be successful at academia. My record year of publications and now a Best Paper Award with
@nischaldesign
@BhavyaChopra1
and Chris Parnin.
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My first grant proposal is funded! I'll be working on "Overcoming Novice Programmers' Misconceptions of Program Behavior" for the next few years. Yay!
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A product I worked on is released! Please try Data Wrangler for
@code
and let us know what you think. AI powered by
@ProseMsft
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Today is my last day at work. I’m taking a break for a few months to focus on hiking, writing, and coding for fun.
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My blog has surpassed 600,000 views! That’s about 10,000x more views than my publications 😅
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New post! My go-to user study methods.
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I resigned so Sam could join.
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Proud of my student for presenting our tool CodeRibbon today at
#icsme2021
You can download it and read a summary of the tool here:
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My students build some pretty cool tools. Public and open source. Go try out CodeRibbon!
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Now that I’m no longer a professor, I can actually share all my project ideas. Ironic.
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I wrote out every rejection I've ever had in my career from jobs, conference papers, and grants. Gotta collect em' all!
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This is why I blog. Even if many of these people leave mean comments, I’ll never get 5000 people to read my academic papers.
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My PhD student has successfully defended his dissertation! Congrats, Joseph!
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I joined a startup as CTO, then we were acquired 99 days later.
Acquired in 99 days
I joined a startup as CTO, then we were acquired 99 days later.
austinhenley.com
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I wrote down some of the questions I got asked during faculty interviews:
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I started a list of dissertations that are relevant to the human factors of software engineering. There is a lot more to add so please contribute!
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My attempt to keep up with the surge of AI for programming research...
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Email from prospective student: “I read your paper and I’m really interested in working with you!”
Me: “can you elaborate on what about that paper interested you?”
Student: “sorry, I didn’t actually read it.”
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New blog post about designing tools for navigating code!
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My second grant proposal is funded! With
@asarma
, we'll be working on adaptive developer tools that better support the cognitive needs of developers.
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A University of Tennessee professor won the Turing Award 🤯! Congratulations, Jack!
Congratulations to Jack Dongarra, who receives 2021
#ACMTuringAward
for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for decades."
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Since
#chi2020
is cancelled, I hope all of you will go read our fascinating paper, What’s Wrong with Computational Notebooks? :)
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New blog post: A story of when I built a tool that developers had requested, but then they didn’t use it.
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New blog post summarizing our upcoming CHI paper: What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
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Oops.
Remember the job fair is for our students, not for faculty looking to leave academics.
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Want to do a PhD with me in beautiful Tennessee? You could have a view like this.
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Our upcoming CHI paper about computational notebooks is being discussed on Hacker News. Uhoh.
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I wrote up some notes about research on computational notebooks from CHI 2022:
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There aren't enough arguments on Twitter right now, so I posted my study guide for software engineering students.
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New blog post about our work on an inquisitive code editor for identifying, correcting, and preventing misconceptions that novice programmers have.
#icse2021
#myICSEpaper
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Two professor milestones: first conference with my students and first presentation by a student!
#vlhcc19
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My students made a tool to query syntax trees from virtually any GitHub repository. It’s open source! It answers questions like... what function has the most nested for loops? What is the most imported Python library? Check out our project:
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If someone could mix “The Design of Everyday Things” with “Types and Programming Languages”, they’d sell at least one copy.
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We ran a study to understand the pain points of CS instructors that was accepted to SIGCSE’23. Check out this summary of our findings! Collab with
@smirhosseini
@chrisparnin
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New milestone: Just submitted my first paper written with one of my students. Feels good!
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I’ve been trying out the new GitHub Copilot project that was announced today. It has promise and a lot of opportunities to improve. Here are my thoughts.
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New blog post: Challenging projects every programmer should try.
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Best Paper Award at LLM4Code with my great collaborators!
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The enrollment for my undergrad software engineering course this fall is up 70% from the usual and still growing.
Send help.
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I’ll be joining Microsoft in Seattle for the summer as a visiting researcher. My pup dog and I will be road tripping all the way there in the Tesla if anyone wants to join 😁
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This is the first fall that I haven’t been in a classroom, as either a student or an instructor, since I started kindergarten. Such a weird feeling. That’s 27 years!
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I taught PL for the first time in the spring. Wasn't sure how it went, but I found out one of my students submitted a pull request to
@racketlang
after only two months of using Racket. No prior experience with functional programming. Kudos to him!
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Want to know more about my transition from academia to Microsoft? I was interviewed by
@john_lam
on his podcast:
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New blog post about a tool I built to overcome “Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?”
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Anyone have a list of famous software failures with details on what happened and why? I’d like to use it in a lecture.
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Ecstatic to finally give a sneak peek on our recent work that has been accepted
@ICSEconf
’s JSEET: An Inquisitive Code Editor for Addressing Novice Programmers' Misconceptions of Program Behavior. Preprint coming soon.
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Happy 25th birthday to
@VisualStudio
! It’s what really got me into programming with VB6.
#microsoft
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Summary of our SIGCSE’24 paper on mistakes that data science students make:
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I need a device that shocks me every time I accept a meeting invite.
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Reflecting on why my teaching statement from 5 years ago was so bad.
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Join us! We are a unique research team that regularly ships features in products!
🚨 We are hiring! 🚨 Excited to work on AI for Programming? We are looking for engineers and researchers in HCI, SE, CSEd, ML, and PL to advance the state of the art. Impact millions of Microsoft users! More details:
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New blog post: Building solutions to problems that no one knows exist yet.
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Who needs the metaverse when you can just recreate a 17-year old microblogging platform?
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I was interviewed about the AI user research I was doing at Microsoft last year.
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My dissertation made it on the front page of Hacker News! And people aren’t berating Patchworks!
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Fantastic blog post by
@pgbovine
on how he maintains an open source project for 10 years with 10 million users: by ignoring feedback and pull requests (for good reason!)
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I wrote a quick start guide for new grad students interested in human factors of software engineering:
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Not sure why I keep doing this too myself. 11,000 Lego pieces later.
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Are you building an AI-powered application? My team at Microsoft would love to chat with you about your experience so far.
Please fill out this survey and we will schedule a call. You’ll be compensated for your time.
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Should I write a book on esoteric programming languages?
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I’ve recently had 16 different companies reach out to me about my blog posts. Who knew a blog could be so impactful?
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There's so much hype about ChatGPT, but I argue it is the lazy way out of UI design.
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How do AI code generators effect students? New blog post with
@MajeedKazemi
summarizing our recent research.
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Me: I should make an app that actually helps people.
Also me: Nah, that's boring. I'll make another Lisp that I won't finish.
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We wrote a paper on COBOL. That’s right. COBOL.
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Me today in front of 115 students trying to fix an if statement.
Just because it's right there in front of my face, it doesn't mean that I actually see it.
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I’m a professor! I’ll be joining the University of Tennessee Knoxville this Fall!
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