Dr. David “Davey” Shepherd
 
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Who I am: I am currently working at Tasktop.  I was recently a postdoctoral fellow at UBC under Dr. Gail Murphy’s supervision, tied to the SPL.  I graduated with a PhD from the University of Delaware under Dr. Lori Pollock and Dr. K. Vijay-Shanker’s supervision in 2007.
 
Impacting Programmer Productivity
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
 
My primary professional goal has always been to improve programmer productivity.  In the past six years I have enjoyed contributing towards this goal as an academic researcher.  While this has been rewarding, I feel it is now time to shift to applied research, with a chance to impact a much broader group.  Thus, I am joining Tasktop, a group of people dedicated to reclaiming the efficiency and
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Programmer Activity Data
Thursday, May 1, 2008
 
Over the winter our research group has been conducting studies related to programmer activity data.  For part of our work we re-used previously collected programmer activity data.  We believe this data, collected during Izzet et al. and Murphy et al.’s studies, would be useful to other researchers as well, and thus are posting it.  We are posting both the data from Izzet et al.’s controlled
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Moving to Vancouver
Monday, July 16, 2007
 
I have officially graduated with my PhD from the University of Delaware.  Since I graduated, I have moved to Vancouver to work with Dr. Gail Murphy as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia.
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Photo Albums
 
 
 
New UBC Lab
August 2007
 
 
 
2002 - 2007
Projects
 
 
My People
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elsewhere
 
 
About myself:
2007
PASTE Research Paper
PASTE Group Presentation
AOSD Research Paper
more publications here...