The paper “Studying the Impact of Social Structures on Software Quality” yesterday received the best paper award at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2010) in Braga, Portugal. This year is the most competitive year in ICPC’s history, where fewer than 20% of the papers submitted were accepted for presentation.
The authors (Ph.D. candidate Nicolas Bettenburg and Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan, of the Queen’s School of Computing) were presented with a unique and artistic statue for the award, along with the usual award plaques!
The research described in the winning paper is part of Nicolas’ Ph.D. thesis.
Great work Nicolas, what a way to celebrate Canada Day!
Selim