Sven Apel
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Professor of Computer Science
https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/apel/
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Felis Just
9 days ago
On the spectrum and working in IT? We think that especially in IT, research is still too often done about you rather than with you.
@svenapel.bsky.social
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social
& Isabella Graßl
#Neurodiversity
#Autism
#ComputerScience
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Felis Just
9 days ago
Auf dem Spektrum und in der IT? Wir finden: Gerade in der IT wird leider noch zu oft über euch geforscht statt mit euch. Wir wollen wissen, was euch in euren IT-Jobs interessiert und bewegt.
@svenapel.bsky.social
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social
& Isabella Graßl
#Neurodiversität
#Autismus
#Informatik
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Saarland Informatics Campus
about 1 month ago
🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one! Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏 🔗 Read more:
sic.link/apel
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Association for Computing Machinery
about 1 month ago
Meet the 2025 ACM Fellows! Hailing from 14 countries and chosen from among ACM's global membership of over 100,000 computing professionals, these 72 honorees are cited for contributions in a wide range of computing research areas. Please join us in congratulating the new inductees!
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Andreas Zeller
2 months ago
Problem: Reviewers did not read the paper. Solution: Write a detailed rebuttal and point to all the places in the paper that answer their questions. New problem: Reviewers did not read the rebuttal.
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
3 months ago
🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint
#graduateprogram
of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS,
@uni-saarland.de
and
@rptu.bsky.social
🗓️ Application deadline: December 31st ↪️
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Andreas Zeller
3 months ago
Happy and honored: I have been selected to become an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to analyzing software and its development process". Thanks a lot to all of you who endorsed and supported me – especially
@cispa.de
+
@saarland-informatics-campus.de
, who always encouraged such long-term impact.
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Saarland Informatics Campus
3 months ago
🏆 Congrats to Professor Reinhard Wilhelm for being awarded the 2025 ACM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award! His work in WCET analysis has shaped safe embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems used worldwide, from aircraft control to medical devices. 🔗 Read more:
sic.link/profwilhelmacm
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Saarland Informatics Campus
3 months ago
🤖 Using AI while coding? Think again. 🖥️ A study conducted by Prof. Dr
@svenapel.bsky.social
and his team shows that, compared to human partners, developers working with AI assistants approach code less critically and experience less knowledge transfer. 🔗 Read more:
sic.link/software
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Alina Mailach
3 months ago
How has our field’s understanding of validity in empirical SE research changed over the past decade? 🤔 Our paper on this topic, with
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social
,
@svenapel.bsky.social
, and
@norbertsiegmund.bsky.social
was accepted at ICSE 2026. Preprint:
sws.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/wp-content/u...
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https://sws.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/10-years-validity.pdf
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4 months ago
The first deadline for the research track
@variabilityconf.bsky.social
2026 conference is Dec. 4 ! It covers all variability areas including software reuse, product lines, and configuration. It merges the 3 previous conferences in the domain (ICSR,SPLC, VaMoS).
conf.researchr.org/home/variabi...
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Saarland Informatics Campus
4 months ago
📰 This week at
#SIC
: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue! 📰 Read:
sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch:
youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
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November 2025 CACM: The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
YouTube video by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
https://youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
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Adolfo Neto
4 months ago
ACM sent a professional filmmaker to Universität des Saarlandes to interview Sven Apel and me about the topic. It was an exciting experience, and the video is now online! 😁 👉 Article:
cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-...
👉 Interview:
vimeo.com/1125950450?f...
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The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.
https://vimeo.com/1125950450?fl=pl&fe=ti
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Adolfo Neto
4 months ago
Marvin Wyrich wrote: Our article "The Silent Scientist," in which we explain the importance of science communication for software engineering, appears in the November issue of Communications of the ACM. But it gets even better...
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The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Marvin Wyrich and Sven Apel discuss "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience," an Opinion article in the November 2025 CACM.
https://vimeo.com/1125950450?fl=pl&fe=ti
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Jonathan Aldrich
5 months ago
Many organizations are changing their language and policies surrounding DEI. The ACM has not, we are sticking to our principles. - Yannis Ioannidis, ACM president, today I'm proud to be a member & volunteer for the
@acm.org
!
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Saarland Informatics Campus
5 months ago
German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities! We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳 🔗 Find our full program here:
sic.link/burgerfest
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Oded Rechavi
5 months ago
First author Vs. Second author
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Max Planck Institute for Informatics
5 months ago
Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence. ↪️Link to the episode:
sic.link/achmensch
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Saarland Informatics Campus
5 months ago
🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2
#ERC
Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany! Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch! 💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years. 🔗 Read more here: ➡️
sic.link/mariya
➡️
sic.link/franziska
#AI
#SIC
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Maintaining and cultivating the traditions of my Alma Mater. Congratulations Dr. Roman!
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Congratulations
@mtoneva.bsky.social
! Great project! I'm looking forward to the results!
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European Research Council (ERC)
6 months ago
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other
#ERCStG
facts & figures for 2025! ➡️
buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch
🇪🇺#EUfunded
#HorizonEurope
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European Research Council (ERC)
6 months ago
In 2025, the ERC received 3,329 proposals for Advanced Grant funding — 31% more than last year! The selected projects will likely be announced in the spring of 2026. More facts and figures on
#ERCAdG
applications 👇
europa.eu/!bm9gPT
#FrontierResearch
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Applications for ERC Advanced Grants 2025: Facts and figures
The ERC Advanced Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 28 August 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:
https://europa.eu/!bm9gPT
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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
6 months ago
Have you recently published in ASEJ, IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, EMSE, or JSS? Present your work at ASE’25! ✅ Accepted after Jan 1, 2024 ✅ In ASE scope ✅ ≥70% new content ✅ Not presented elsewhere 👉 Full details:
conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...
🗓️ Submission Due: 1st Sep
#ASE2025
#SoftwareEngineering
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ASE 2025 - Journal-First Track - ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
https://conf.researchr.org/track/ase-2025/ase-2025-journal-first-track
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Experiments in SE research often require a contrast condition or baseline (e.g., contrasting reading code with problem solving or reading prose). What is the influence of the choice of baseline on the actual results? See our TOSEM paper for answers:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
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International Conference on Software Engineering
8 months ago
Congrats to all authors of accepted papers in Cycle 1 of
#ICSE2026
! Out of 660 submissions, 60 papers were accepted and 107 invited for major revisions. We now invite you to share this post with more details about your paper! We'll see you in Rio! 🇧🇷🌴
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European Research Council (ERC)
9 months ago
📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s
#HorizonEurope
programme. Find out more 👉
europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG
#FrontierResearch
@ec.europa.eu
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Felis Just
9 months ago
Am Wochenende durfte ich unsere Forschung auf dem
#Kosmos
vorstellen. Ich bin begeistert, dass so viele sich für
#Programmieren
und
#Neurodiversität
interessieren. Danke an alle vor Ort und die
#TUC
!
@janetsiegmund.bsky.social
@svenapel.bsky.social
@schanlin.bsky.social
@yifan00.bsky.social
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Saarland Informatics Campus
9 months ago
⚛️ Quantum software meets Saarbrücken science: new €53M+ research center launched at
@uni-saarland.de
. With
#informatics
,
#physics
,
#math
&
#engineering
on board – and
@dfki.bsky.social
,
@mpi-inf.mpg.de
& @fz-juelich.de in the mix. 🔗 Read more about the
#QuTe
initiative here:
sic.link/qute
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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
9 months ago
🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉
#ASE2025
has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯 Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!
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ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
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Marcel Böhme
9 months ago
Massive 1.2k submissions to
#ASE25
in Korea! 🎉 📈
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Andreas Zeller
10 months ago
Occasionally, I get a reviewer complaining, “You don’t compare against any other approach. So how can we know you’re better?” So I found a simple way to still add the "bold number column" that apparently everybody wants these days.
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Adolfo Neto
10 months ago
📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines! 🔍 Research Papers: 30 May ✨ NIER: 12 Jul ⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul 🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul 🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug 👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug 📄 Journal First: 1 Sep More info:
conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
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ASE 2025
Welcome to the website of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025. The ASE conference is the premier research forum for Automated Software Engineering. E...
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2025
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Marcel Böhme
10 months ago
✨️ Now that
#ICSE25
is over, it's time to get your papers ready for
#ASE25
(30th May)! 📢 Here is what's new: * Major Revision v2.0 * Review criteria for tech. & experience papers * Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews * Auto-bidding (TPMS) * Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers 👇 For more details, read on.
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Volker Stolz
10 months ago
Meet the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners at ECOOP'25: Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt (Senior Prize) Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh (Junior Prize) Check out their awards-citation: https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-awards It's also the first time […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Andreas Zeller
10 months ago
A new look! We have created a new version of The Fuzzing Book, based on
#JupyterBook
, bringing * easier navigation * dark mode * search * mobile layout and lots of other features. Check it out at
www.fuzzingbook.org/beta/html/in...
Should we continue with this new look? Comments are welcome!
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Adolfo Neto
10 months ago
Help Us with Our Software Engineering Research Survey
#SEResearch
youtu.be/SBolY_AvqK0
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Help Us with Our Software Engineering Research Survey
YouTube video by Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM with Adolfo Neto
https://youtu.be/SBolY_AvqK0
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Diomidis Spinellis
11 months ago
Many sites provide incorrect or incomplete BibTeX entries. I therefore just use the provided DOI and a small shell script to create the BibTeX from it from the definitive data retrieved from Crossref.
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International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
11 months ago
📢 ASE 2025 – Upcoming Deadlines! 🔍 Research Papers: 30 May ✨ NIER: 12 Jul ⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul 🧑🏫 Doctoral Symposium: 31 Jul 🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug 👩🏻💻 Student Research Competition: 12 Aug 📄 Journal First: 1 Sep
#ASE2025
#SoftwareEngineering
#CallForPapers
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Jonathan Aldrich
11 months ago
Citation-based metrics are bogus anyway but if anyone wonders why ML people have higher h-indexes, now you know! Data from
cspubs.org
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CSPubs: How Many ICLR Publications Is One Paper in Each Area?
https://cspubs.org
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Jonathan Aldrich
11 months ago
Finally a confirmation: PL paper are worth more!
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Mariya Toneva
11 months ago
Together with
@autreche.bsky.social
, Adish Singla, Krishna Gummadi, Goran Radanovic and Nina Grgić-Hlača, we have multiple open positions postdocs in AI, Computing, and Society at the MPI for Software Systems! Apply by May 13 via the new Max Planck Postdoc Program!
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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Max Planck Postdoc Program
Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.
https://www.mpg.de/en/max-planck-postdoc-program
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11 months ago
What is the essence object-oriented programming? It depends on whom you ask. The long answer is available in the preprint of our recently accepted paper:
www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...
Marvin Wyrich, Johannes C. Hofmeister,
@svenapel.bsky.social
, and I dared to go down this rabbit hole.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
11 months ago
Cuts to universities aren't just about "woke" and affect Red states too.
@sethrockman.bsky.social
organized a "teach-in" at the NCAA tourney in Providence. Hear me talk (1 min) about the US gov't as the world's ultimate venture capitalist!
@phileil.bsky.social
took great notes.
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College professors stage NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Teach-In on Federal Government’s Higher Education cuts
“Our ability to train the next generation of STEM professionals is in jeopardy,” said Maia Bailey, a Providence College biology professor. “We have lost funds to help us teach more effectively..."
https://steveahlquist.substack.com/p/college-professors-stage-ncaa-mens
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Mariya Toneva
about 1 year ago
One week left to apply! We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of
@shaileejain.bsky.social
, Eddie Chang, and his group.
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Debugging performance bugs is a maze of complexity! We used VR to uncover how developers reason about performance bugs, revealing structured debugging episodes... To be presented at FSE'25, a preprint is available:
www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/publications...
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Jonathan Aldrich
about 1 year ago
Quite a cartoon, sure to be unpopular with the leaders of the two most powerful nations on earth!
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Karly Kingsley
about 1 year ago
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
about 1 year ago
That a great university system can be destroyed quite quickly!
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