Prof. Riehle's Comments on Science and Academia

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    • Advanced Design and Programming (ADAP)
    • The AMOS Project (AMOS)
    • Commercial Open Source Startups (COSS)
    • Free (/Libre), and Open Source Software (FOSS)
    • Performing Scientific Research (NYT)
    • Software Product Management (PROD)
    • Research to Startup (R2S)
  • Posted on

    2022-12-03

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    2. Teaching, 2.1 Teaching (General)

    An illustration of how chat AIs might disrupt teaching

    With the recent general availability of chat AIs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, teachers have to ask themselves how to deal with student homework potentially created using these tools. In the following ten minute video I provide a short illustration from my own teaching how students might use such chat AIs in creating homework, and I discuss […]


  • Posted on

    2022-11-16

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    1. Research, 1.2 Research Methods, 1.3 Grant Proposals

    A common single-person research design that does not work (well)

    I’ve had some success in grant proposals with research designs for human-centered software engineering that follow the following (common) pattern. It is a three-step of


  • Posted on

    2022-11-12

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    1. Research, 1.1 Research (General)

    Have you seen this review?

    We recently submitted a structured literature review to a well-ranked journal, and got a review back complaining about how badly our controlled experiment had been carried out. We inquired with the editor about this, but got no answer back. The review (by reviewer 2, no less) is so generic, I suspect it has been used […]


  • Posted on

    2022-08-01

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    1. Research, 1.3 Grant Proposals

    Dear Ministry, Are You Serious?

    Translated from the (German) instructions on the final step of submitting a project plan for funding: Please specify exactly how many and which publications you will publish over the next three years. Yeah, right.


  • Posted on

    2022-06-28

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    2. Teaching, 2.1 Teaching (General)

    Lecturing is getting increasingly bipolar

    In this fifth semester of the COVID-19 pandemic, I can’t help but predict that teaching by way of lectures will be getting more bipolar. I foresee two main modes of lecturing: Increased use of videos in online lecturing rather than live performances Traditional in-person lecturing without serious online presence This may hardly sound surprising, but […]


  • Posted on

    2022-06-13

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    1. Research, 1.1 Research (General)

    Best Practices for Page Numbers in Article Submissions

    Should you add page numbers to articles you submit for review? Absolutely. Why? Because it will make it easier for reviewers to comment. Should you have page numbers in an article you are preparing for submission? Absolutely. Why? Because your coauthors will find it easier to comment. (Not everyone will always be online; I still […]


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