Chris Brown
Bridging the Gap Between Research and OSS Communities
Reflections from the 2025 OSS Community Leadership Summit I recently had the chance to attend the Community Leadership Summit at All Things Open 2025, one of the largest tech conferences focused on open-source software (OSS). The summit brings togeth ... read more →
VL/HCC 2025 Overview
We had numerous contributions accepted and presented at the AIEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2025) conference. This post summarizes the workshop and main conference contributions from our research group this yea ... read more →
ESEM 2025 Overview
Our paper "Exploring the Evidence-Based SE Beliefs of Generative AI Tools" was accepted and recently presented at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2025) Emerging Results and Vision ... read more →
FSE 2025 Preview 2: Workshops
Foundations of Software Engineering was a great opportunity to connect with and learn from software engineering researchers. In addition to the education and tool demo tracks of the conference, we have several contributions to co-located workshops at ... read more →
FSE 2025 Preview
The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) is one of the leading venues for software engineering-related research---targeting researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. We're excited to share that several of ... read more →
We Hosted a Workshop for Practitioners---No One Came
As part of a recent grant, we were required to host a topical workshop to share ideas and promote collaboration among stakeholders. I decided to design our workshop primarily for software practitioners (individuals who apply software engineering conc ... read more →
Hello World
Welcome to our blog! This is the first post, more will be coming soon 👀... About Us: We are the Code World, No Blanket lab---a software engineering research group in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech 🦃. Our research uses empiri ... read more →