Thesis defence

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Monday, August 10, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages — TreeGen: A Monotonically Impure Functional Language

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Alistair Hackett, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present TreeGen, an impure functional language designed to express, consume, and validate JSON-like documents, as well as generate text files. The language aims to provide a more reliable and flexible way to create customised Interface Definition Languages, since the current state of the art is implemented via monolithic, ad-hoc codebases which cannot easily be modified.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — On the Relationship Between the Developer’s Perceptible Ethnicity and the Evaluation of Contributions in GitHub

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Reza Nadri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Context: Open Source Software (OSS) projects are typically the result of collective efforts performed by developers with different backgrounds. Although the quality of developers’ contributions should be the only factor influencing the evaluation of the contributions to OSS projects, recent studies have shown that diversity issues affect the acceptance or rejection of the contributions.