PPIG 2020 will take place as two one-week-long virtual events in August (17th to 21st) and November (16th to 20th). During each of the two weeks, we’ll meet for two to three hours a day for presentations, discussions, panels and social activities.
Below is the programme for the Summer session. We’ll be meeting each day starting at 4pm UK / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific for about 2 hours of scheduled content, followed by up to one extra hour of social activities. There will be about 5-10 minute breaks between each hour of scheduled content. You can find here a Google Calendar you can subscribe to.
It’s free to attend, and you will need to register via Eventbrite so we can share the virtual meeting links and invite you to the Discord channel we’ll be using for keeping in touch throughout the event.
We hope you’ll be able to join us!
Mariana, Clayton, Philip, Ben, Luke and Colin
Programme
(timings are given in British Summer Time, which is UTC+1 at the moment)
Monday, 17 August
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Welcome to PPIG! |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Icebreaker & getting to know each other |
| It’s not all-or-none… See the social & games page for instructions |
Tuesday, 18 August
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Panel discussion: |
| Programming, Communities & Creative Power | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Sightseeing - StreetView tour of Toronto |
Wednesday, 19 August
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Paper presentations |
| Parallel Program Comprehension Eric Aubanel |
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| What the Mouse Said: How mouse movements can relate to student stress and success Natalie Culligan and Kevin Casey |
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| Designing an Open Visual Workflow Environment Charles Boisvert, Chris Roast and Elizabeth Uruchurtu |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Roundtable: Reflections on Programming Otherwise |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Musical Soirée (or Matinée, depending on your location!) |
Thursday, 20 August
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Paper presentations |
| Assessing Preferences for Software Development Role Using the MBTI Daniel Varona and Luiz Fernando Capretz |
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| On personality testing and software engineering Clayton Lewis |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Panel discussion: |
| Friendly editors | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Conference reception - make and bring your own dish! |
Friday, 21 August
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Doctoral Consortium short talks |
| Validation of Stimuli for Studying Mental Representations Formed by Parallel Programmers During Parallel Program Comprehension Leah Bidlake, Eric Aubanel and Daniel Voyer |
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| Purpose-First Programming: Scaffolding program writing and understanding to align with purpose-oriented identities Kathryn Cunningham |
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| 16:45 - 17:45 | Panel discussion: |
| Between science and software engineering | |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | PPIG Prizes & Close |