Christian Bird
@christianbird
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Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research working in Empirical Sofware Engineering
Redmond, WA
Joined April 2009
New research on developer GenAI tool usage: We interviewed 54 developers—27 matched pairs from the same teams with diverging usage patterns. What differentiates frequent and infrequent users? Plus how organizations can help. 🧵(1/5) 📰preprint: https://t.co/u2ZOf93Vos
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hi folks! my team is working on a study to understand how developers use and trust traditional vs AI-assisted tooling. i'd super appreciate it if you would take a ~20 min survey. RTs welcome. https://t.co/xou0h435OA we'll be sure to share the results -- watch this space! <3
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Trying a new way of asking questions in my #ICSE2022 session (papers 18) Friday at 9:00 on recommenders, tools, & environments. Ask a question on twitter with the #ICSEpapers18 hashtag any time in the session and I'll moderate questions to the authors. Let's see how this goes...
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Dealing with merge conflicts can be tough work — what kind of diff views help *you* deal with them? Are you familiar with this format of showing merge conflicts? Help us understand more by answering this quick poll ➡️
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Happy to announce our rebuttal of Berger et al., TOPLAS 2019 paper, available on Medium https://t.co/f1C4S6a8Ga. Full, gory details are on ArXiv https://t.co/NdhHkLNdUq. Tl;dr: our results hold, they reproduced them, their study has many issues.
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by Prem Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov
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In case you didn’t have time to catch the email address in my SE/data science Microsoft internship pitch this morning at the opening of @ASEconf2019 , send a CV or your web page link to smartdsrecruiting@microsoft.com #aseconf
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Thrillled for my @Microsoft colleagues whose cross-group collaboration resulted in the paper "Software Engineering for #MachineLearning: A Case Study", winner of the #ICSE #SoftwareEngineering in Practice 2019 #BestPaper Award https://t.co/pfHzwowsA4
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Opinion: @margaretstorey is the best public speaker in the software engineering community, and it’s not particularly close. #icse19
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Eirini Kalliamvakou doing an awesome job explaining what makes a great manager of software engineers. https://t.co/AbHLjMex1U
#icse18 #icse2018
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Yes, yes, yes!! @tomzimmermann is running for ACM @sigsoft chair, advocating a transparent, inclusive organization, golden open access (YES!!) publications, and affordable conferences. Become a @sigsoft member and vote!!
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Interested in Graph Neural Networks? Check out our implementation https://t.co/k1KWafDQQy Supports dense and sparse adjacency matrices and multiple GNN architectures. Brought to you by the Deep Program Understanding Team
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Our research aims to teach machines to understand complex algorithms, combining methods from the programming languages and the machine learning communities.
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Microsoft's Performance Contributions to Git in 2017
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Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) hosts the largest Git repository in the world: the Windows source code. Keeping a primary copy of the code available in the cloud and having it be performant while...
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TSE paper "What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?" accepted at @ICSEconf's Journal First track. On to Gothenburg!
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Congratulations to Vincent Hellendoorn, @UCDavisCoE and @ucdavis PhD student (and former Master's student of @sback_ at @tudelft) on winning the highly competitive & prestigious @MSFTResearch PhD Fellowship!
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Great to see this @icseconf paper as #morningpaper and discussed on HN. https://t.co/r1KWyFQYv1 /cc @christianbird
A study quantifying the benefits of TypeScript and Flow type annotations - 15% reduction in committed bugs.
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"To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript" Gao et al. ICSE 2017 https://t.co/dHIXplTl9d
#themorningpaper
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