BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:OpenCms 21.0.19
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Berlin
X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:CEST
DTSTART:19700329T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:CET
DTSTART:19701025T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE				
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20230206T070431
UID:1f071e93-a5e4-11ed-b343-000e0c3db68b
SUMMARY:Leveraging the Bimodality of Software
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAfter discovering, back in 2011, that Language Models are useful for modeling repetitive patterns in source code (c.f. The "Naturalness" of software), and exploring some applications thereof, more recently (since about 2019) our group at UC Davis has focused on the observation that Software, as usually written, is bimodal, admitting both the well-known formal, deterministic semantics (mostly for machines) and probabilistic, noisy semantics (for humans). This bimodality property affords both new approaches to software tool construction (using machine-learning) and new ways of studying human code reading. In this talk, I will describe some of the projects we have undertaken in this domain.\nWe are grateful to the National Science Foundation of the USA for their support for this work, via grants 1247280, 1414172, and 2107592\nBio:\nPrem Devanbu holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Ph.D from Rutgers University. After nearly 20 years at Bell Labs, he joined UC Davis, where he is now a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus on Recall appointment) of Computer Science. He works in the areas of Empirical Software Engineering, and AI for SE, specifically exploiting "big data" available in public software repositories to help software developers and improve software processes. He is a winner of  the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2021), the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2022), and several best-paper and most-influential paper awards. He is a Fellow of the ACM.\nPrem Devanbu is visiting the University of Stuttgart for the next five months.
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230301T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230301T160000
LOCATION: , 2.013 (Fakultätssitzungssaal), Universitätsstr. 38, 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.f05.uni-stuttgart.de/fakultaet/aktuelles/veranstaltung/Leveraging-the-Bimodality-of-Software/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR