Posts Tagged by PhD
Manny Lehman dies
| January 14, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Sad news. Professor Manny Lehman passed away a few weeks ago. Someone I would very much like to have met, he was the originator of the laws of software evolution, a subject which served as a foundation stone of my own PhD thesis, thus making me particularly indebted to his contributions. read more
Christopher Özbek and his Flying Colours
| December 19, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
My friend and sometime colleague, Christopher Özbek, presented his final PhD defence on Friday at Freie Universität Berlin. I am pleased to report that he was passed with flying colours, being awarded the highest possible grade (summa cum laude?). His dissertation addresses the matter of how to innovate within FLOSS projects, that is, how to… read more
An Open Source Eco-System?
| September 6, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research |
To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE)… read more
The Catalyst Effect in FLOSS Repositories
| April 26, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research |
In the course of my PhD studies, I proposed that when a project makes a transition from one repository to another, you could expect to see significant changes to a project’s evolutionary characteristics. Indeed, I covered this in earlier posts, discussing the transition from SourceForge to Debian. Here, we saw that the number of developers… read more
Continuing the Empirical Results: Anti-Regressive Work
| April 19, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research |
It has been a while since I wrote about my research into FLOSS, for which there are a few reasons. When last I wrote I was approaching my PhD defence, and for the whole PhD process to come to an end I had to wait until January this year, when my thesis was officially approved.… read more
A Life Update
| October 28, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
I seem to have fallen off the blogosphere in the past few weeks. There is good reason for this I assure you. Firstly, I had been busy preparing for my viva voce, the oral defence of my PhD thesis and the last hurdle to completion. I am happy to say that I was passed, I… read more
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