RiSE

Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman talk about the Ajax Profiling Extensions (also known as AjaxView), a tool that allows to profile web sites using Ajax. The tool lets you investigate the performance of the client side javascript! Ben and Emre explain how the…

Today we talk with Ethan Jackson about Cloud applications.  Cloud applications are web-based distributed systems deployed over a fluctuating set of computing nodes and services. The design of cloud applications is particularly challenging because few assumptions can be made about the…

In this video, Grant Bronsdon, a High School intern at Microsoft Research, gives a quick tutorial on writing scripts in TouchDevelop. TouchDevelop is a Windows Phone 7 app that allows you to script your phone on your phone! The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's…

Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits present the ideas behind Doloto. Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and…

Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko present a new exciting project: Qex. Pavel did an internship in the Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) investigating automatic data generation methods for parameterized SQL queries. In this video, he shows the result of his 3-month…

Trishul Chilimbi, a researcher from RiSE talks about Green. Green enables programmers to approximate expensive functions and loops while providing statistical quality of service guarantees. By giving away a couple percents of QoS, some applications may decrease their energy…

Continuing on with our coverage of ICSE 2011, meet Dr. Victor Pankratius. Dr. Pankratius heads the Multicore Software Engineering investigator group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He also serves as the elected chairman of the Software Engineering for parallel Systems…

Francesco Logozzo, a researcher at the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research, gives a demo of the Static Checker that comes with Code Contracts for .NET tools. The static checker allows you to verify that all the assertions in your code hold…

Ben Zorn gives an introduction to the problems of memory corruption. In particular, he talks about his work on new memory allocators that provide fault tolerance and detection of errors such as dangling pointers. Very cool whiteboard session, enjoy. RobustHeap:…

Update: we renamed the project to TouchDevelop!Update: This video is outdated! Please refer to the latest documentation on the TouchDevelop web site! In this video, Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal, from the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) at Microsoft Research, present…