Iman Hemati Moghadam and Mel Ó Cinnéide were awarded the Best Paper prize at the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2012) for their paper entitled "Automated Refactoring Using Design Differencing." This work shows how the automated refactoring platform Code-Imp, designed and built in UCD CSI, can be used to halt the progression of design erosion. The developer expresses the desired design they wish their program to have, and Code-Imp makes novel use of design differencing in order to refactor the program to its desired design. In experiments on over 150KLOC of open source code the desired design could be achiveved to an average accuracy of 92%.

In celebration of Dublin's status as European City of Science 2012, UCD is running a one day Computer Science Summer School for students interested in experiencing a day in the life of a UCD Computer Science student. So, if you are going into 6th year or Year 13 (A Level) in September 2012, thinking of studying computer science and want to spend the whole day on the 7^th of June with us:

Twenty-six brave souls participated in the CSI Programming Competition on Saturday the 18^th, solving programming problems that helped humanity's fight against the robot uprizing. They were detecting DNA of roboclones, dividing supply rations, configuring shield stabilizers, searching for Carah Sonnor and helping unite separated resistance cells. Some participants competed from home, viewing their classmates via live stream from UCD CSI.