The core reasons for the success of spreadsheets are their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model. Spreadsheets are enormously successful. It is estimated that 95% of all US companies use spreadsheets for financial reporting (1). In the eighties spreadsheets became “the medium, the method, the tool, and the language of financial analysis” (2) This success raises the […]
Project #tweetprop
On January 23 I will defend my dissertation. In the Netherlands, this is mainly a ceremonial thing. The 8 committee members review your thesis beforehand and you are allowed to print it before the defense. As Dutch tradition has it, you will not only be defending your dissertation, but also a number of propositions. Some […]
LIVE 2013
I will be in the program committee of LIVE 2013, an all new ICSE workhop. We want to leverage the current interest in live programming by bringing together researchers and practitioners to collaborate and learn from each other. The term live programming is a catchphrase for programming systems that abandon the traditional edit-compile-run cycle in […]
Financial Management blog
Michiel Rozema of Microsoft wrote a blogpost today on 5 ways to get a grip on Excel sheets, in which my research and Infotron were named. 5 manieren om grip te krijgen op Excel – Financieel Management (Dutch)
Data Clone Detection and Visualization in Spreadsheets
We just got the news this paper is accepted at ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. The idea We know from our experience with spreadsheet users, that copy-pasting is a common way to transfer data within or between spreadsheets.However, this can be error-prone when the original data may changes and the copies get outdated. In software engineering, it […]
