Software Vulnerabilities as Cognitive Blindspots; Assessing the Suitability of a Dual Processing Theory of Decision Making for Secure Coding | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Software vulnerabilities are present in many software systems, putting people who entrust software with their data in harm's way. Many vulnerabilities are avoidable since they are well documented - yet they remain widespread. One explanation for their ...

New paper led by Matthew Ivory. With Miriam Sturdee, Mark Levine & @basharnuseibeh.bsky.social.
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We replicate & extend Brun et al.,'s innovative work on cognitive blindspots in programming, apply a dual systems framework, & model sample sizes for effects of interest.

A tapestry of responsibility The etymology of responsibility, from the Latin spondere, is “to promise" or "to pledge”. Embedded in it is another important meaning: respondere, “to answer” or “to respond”.

A tapestry of responsibility…

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🌟 Great sessions & engaging workshops at the November SyMeCo Autumn School @lero-centre.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
🌟Prof @basharnuseibeh.bsky.social delivered an amazing keynote "Context 2.0: Software for a better society"🌟
@researchireland.ie ireland.ie @horizoneu.bsky.social

I hear you 👂
It’s a face-saving exercise 🤪

There are few things in life that I hate more than listening to my own voice, but I was lucky to share this keynote session with MIT’s Michael Cusumano, so this reposting is for him. Please stop listening at minute 47!

Thank you, Lin, so kind of you to write! 🙏🏽

Thanks Mehrdad! It was great to see you, Shiva and the boys! 😍

Thanks Andy! Good to see you in Ottawa.

Thank you, Thomas. You are too kind. The honour and pleasure were mine! 🙏🏽

Thanks Anil! 🙏🏽

The most fulfilling part of receiving the Harlan D Mills award at #icse2025 yesterday was the opportunity to acknowledge my collaborators over many years. And the most enjoyable part was celebrating with lovely colleagues.

Very grateful to IEEE Computer Society for the honour
@icseconf.bsky.social

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. - Harlan Mills

Congratulations to the new ACM Fellows Abhik Roychoudhury, Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, Tim J. Menzies, Mira Mezini, Bashar A. Nuseibeh, and Benjamin G. Zorn

👏 Congratulations from #ACM #SIGSOFT to all 55 ACM Fellows named in 2024 for Outstanding Contributions and a special shout-out 📢 to the experts from our field: Abhik Roychoudhury, Satish Chandra, Marsha Chechik, Tim J. Menzies, Mira Mezini, Bashar A. Nuseibeh, and Benjamin G. Zorn

Kushal Ramkumar, Wanling Cai, John McCarthy, Gavin Doherty, Bashar Nuseibeh, Liliana Pasquale
Diagnosing Unknown Attacks in Smart Homes Using Abductive Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10738

IEEE TSE 50th Anniversary - ICSE 2025 ICSE, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference. It will be held April 27-May 3 2025 in Ottawa. Core conference days will be Wednesd...

Celebrate IEEE TSE 50th anniversary at #icse2025 in Ottawa. Join TSE editor Sebastian Uchitel and former editors as they discuss the history of SE through the lens of the EiCs, and the challenges facing SE and journals. conf.researchr.org/info/icse-20... (2 days until early reg date Feb 18th)

A wise man… 😜

No regrets…

Excellent.

Relieved by my career choice 😜

The program features two exciting *keynotes*:

Jane Cleland-Huang: Smart Swarms, Smarter Boundaries: Rethinking Decision Assurance in Autonomous Systems

@basharnuseibeh.bsky.social: Software Adaptation is Easy, Social Adaptation is Hard

👉 conf.researchr.org/info/seams-2...

An aphorism… (?)

- Two exciting keynotes (tentative titles)
- Jane Cleland-Huang: Cognitive Guardrails for on-the-fly Decision-Making in Next-Gen Drone Swarms
- @basharnuseibeh.bsky.social: Software adaptation is easy, social adaptation is hard

Or even a summer break!

Lovely piece, thank for writing it, Arosha. I now regularly recommend to others the book by Sarah Jaffe that you cite, ever since you recommended it to me 6 months ago. I really like your Buddhist perspective, using the lenses of loving kindness, sympathetic joy, compassion, and equanimity. HNY! 🙏🏽

Thank you, Shane! I’ve never had anything I’ve written being called an “exhilarating blast“, but I’ll take it (and maybe frame it!) 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Glad you liked the piece. In this age of AI mania, it seems to be aging well. 🤞🏽

isn't that what mansplaining is supposed to be? 😜

I hope my splaining was manly enough 😜

Happy new year .

Immediate gratification versus delayed benefits from painful fitness exercises

Yes, a remarkable man. I am frustrated when he is frequently headline labelled as a “one term president“ as if it some kind of major blemish on his legacy, when in fact it left him with energy and unfinished business of doing the more important humanitarian work of actually improving people’s lives

Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant Try Deep Research, a new research assistant in Gemini Advanced, and a chat optimized version of Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental.

Can Google apply😜

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Bashar Nuseibeh on LinkedIn: I just heard that (Emeritus Professor) Dewayne E Perry passed away on 28th… I just heard that (Emeritus Professor) Dewayne E Perry passed away on 28th November 2024 (thank you for letting me know, David Rosenblum). Dewayne was a…

Sad news..

RIP: Dewayne E Perry (1940-2024)

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I have created a Starter Pack for Software Engineering Research

Software Engineering Researchers, from Academia or Industry
#SEResearch
Some PL people too

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