Dear Dr. Ekaterina PekThe SoftLang Team and the CS department in Koblenz would like to congratulate.

Well done. But it’s not over yet. The real drill starts now.

!21 May 2014

Table of contents

Hat quiz (1-2h)

Attempt by Dr. Pek

Reference solution by A. Varanovich

Pic quiz (2-3h)

Here we grill Kate as good as we can.

Appraisal (if we arrive there) by the Doctor Father (1-2h)

Hat quiz

Dear Kate, please take a minute to prepare a nice speech about

this hat of yours. How does it all make sense?

Here is the concise reference solution by Andrei Varanovich.

It was a long way to Doctor … It took many nights to collect all those digital artifacts from software repositories. Of course, the storage should be scalable and reliable. (Quite obviously, Kate is now with Google.) Apparently, Kate needed tools like a ruler that was thoroughly handmade by @reallynotabba. It was a lot of fun and stress, since the “future work” is an essential part of a live of a researcher, and there is always something for tomorrow. However, she took R (who uses pencils these days?) and transformed the data she collected into 246 pages of a thesis with many nice plots. (I mean, they are *really* nice — every hacker would confirm.)

Pic quiz

Who is this?

Who is this?

It’s Leonid Breschnew.

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from http://de.ria.ru/ and http://www.mz-web.de/

Who is this?

Who is this?

It’s Pinocchio.

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from Wikipedia

Who is this?

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from Wikipedia

Who is this?

It’s Pekwoman.

Who is missing?

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from Wikipedia and tomatobubble

Who is missing?

Putin is missing!

Who is missing?

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from http://thedailyshow.cc.com

Who is missing?

Jon Stewart is missing!

Who is missing?

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from wikipedia

and http://gravatar.com/avatar/e7122ba9bae9f7858d30231544376822?s=200

Who is missing?

Jean-Marie Favre is missing!

Source: my math teacher back in 1986 and raw picture material retrieved from wikipedia

What is this?

Source: my math teacher back in 1986 and raw picture material retrieved from wikipedia

What is this?

This is a piece of butter, as you

can see!

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from wikipedia

What is this?

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from wikipedia

What is this?

Two power laws these are!

What is this?

a*3.14159265359*i

Source: It was pretty late, when this came to my mind.

What is this?

An API yes!

a*3.14159265359*i API

Source: It was pretty late, when this came to my mind.

Source: http://www.seo-united.de/suchmaschinen.html

What is missing?

Google Yahoo

T-Online ask.com

AOL Suche Conduit web.de gmx.net

search.com

Popular search engines in Germany

Source: http://www.seo-united.de/suchmaschinen.html

What is missing?

Bing is missing! Too easy, right?

Google Yahoo

T-Online ask.com

AOL Suche Conduit web.de gmx.net

search.com

Popular search engines in Germany

What is missing?

JHotDraw JEdit Ant

Eclipse Firefox

Vuze/Azureus Linux kernel

Lucene Mozilla

Hibernate

Recurring projects in corpus-based research

Source: Raw picture material retrieved from http://argouml-users.net/ and project recurrence data retrieved from Kate’s thesis

What is missing?

ArgoUML is missing!

Hihi!

JHotDraw JEdit Ant

Eclipse Firefox

Vuze/Azureus Linux kernel

Lucene Mozilla

Hibernate

Recurring projects in corpus-based research

What is missing?

Ekaterina Pek’s Dissertation zum Thema

„Corpus-based Empirical Research in Software Engineering“

What is missing?

NOTHING is missing.

Ekaterina Pek’s Dissertation zum Thema

„Corpus-based Empirical Research in Software Engineering“

Appraisal by the Doctor Father

Dear Kate, you are the master of big repositories. You are a key researcher of software linguistics. You are the best female PhD student I ever had. You are producing plots faster than a supercomputer. You are not a pacman, you are more like a whole bunch of pacmen. In fact, you are pacwomen. Above all, you are a Doctor now. So anyone here in the room, who needs a Doctor, get an appointment with Kate. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work and publish with you. May Google treat you well. May life treat you well. As your Doctor Father, I will always be keen to hear about you and your work and life. Keep the good stuff coming and all the best.

Дорогая Катя, Ты мастер больших репозиториев. Ты самый важный исследователь лингвистики программного обеспечения. Ты лучшая девушка PhD-студент, которая у меня когда-либо была. Ты производишь графики быстрее чем суперкомпьютер.

Ты не Пэкмэн (pacman), ты скорее целая куча Пэкменов. На самом деле, ты Пэк-женщина. Кроме того, сейчас ты Доктор.

Если кому-то в этой комнате нужен Доктор, можете обратиться к Кате. Это было большое удовольствие для меня работать и публиковать статьи вместе с тобой.

Пусть и в Google и в жизни тебе сопуствует успех. Как отец твоей Докторскoй, я всегда буду рад услышать о твоих успехах в работе и жизни.

Удачи и всего самого наилучшего!

Another speech by Kate?