In her lecture titled “Context as an Antidote to Information Overload,” Dr. Murphy will discuss her research with software developers who perform evolution tasks and the multiple source code elements, bug reports, system test data and other issues they deal with on a daily basis. Dr. Murphy looks to historical archives to help provide helpful cues to developers in order to manage information overload, improve team awareness and provide an anchor for interpreting historical project information.
Dr. Gail C. Murphy is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. She is also a co-founder/ CSO at Tasktop Technologies Inc. Her research interests are in improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by giving them tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that really matters for their work.