Sunday, August 06, 2006

Python 3000

Google TechTalks
July 21, 2006

Guido van Rossum is a computer programmer who is best known as the author and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python programming language.

ABSTRACT
The next major version of Python, nicknamed Python 3000 (or more prosaically Python 3.0), has been anticipated for a long time. For years I have been collecting and exploring ideas that were too radical for Python 2.x, and it's time to stop dreaming and start coding. In this talk I will present the community process that will be used to complete the specification for Python 3000, as well as some of the major changes to the language and the remaining challenges.

Predicting bugs in code changes using SCM information

Google TechTalks
March 8, 2006

Jim whitehead
Jim Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has recently been developing a new degree program on computer gaming, the BS in Computer Game Engineering. Jim received his PhD in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine, in 2000

Abstract:
Almost all software contains undiscovered bugs, ones that have not yet been exposed by testing or by users. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to know the location of these bugs? This talk presents two approaches for predicting the location of bugs. The bug cache contains 10% of the files in a software project.