NSF grant for research on human code processing
Emily Morgan, in collaboration with Prem Devanbu and other cross-campus collaborators, recently received a three-year NSF grant worth $1.4 million to study how humans process programming languages. To quote Devanbu, "When you write a program, it has two audiences. Code is meant for human consumption and it’s meant for computer consumption, and the fact that people choose to write code in ways that are easy for human beings to read reflects this bimodality." Read more about the project and the award here!