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Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics

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Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics

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The announcement itself is pretty sparse on the proposed approach, but given the research interests of Swarat Chaudhuri [1] and Moshe Vardi [2], I would guess they will attempt to combine recent advancements in program synthesis, program verification, and code mining. Program synthesis: There has been a lot of interest in the formal methods community to automatically generate programs (for small instances) with the t…

I put my money on this comment being reflective of the actual research award vs all the other comments complaining that its an $11M grant to build an autocomplete that scrapes the internet for code snippets.

Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics

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From this article, I have absolutely no idea what this software will actually do. Can anyone enlighten me as to what they are actually trying to do, from the perspective of an actual software developer? Or did they just successfully string together the correct sequence of buzz words to unlock the grant money?

> Or did they just successfully string together the correct sequence of buzz words to unlock the grant money? This, absolutely. Big data, data mining, and machine learning are really cool topics but the words became overused, overhyped, used out of context, especially by people who don't really understand what these are. I have an old co-worker who spent a lot of time working with large excel spreadhseets, using some…

"big data" .... because my Excel spreadsheets were like ... really big ... like you had to scroll down for 5 seconds big.
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