Natarajan Chadambaram successfully depended his PhD on bot identification in GitHub.
natarajan-chidambaram.github.io
The thesis can be found here
orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.50...
(click on the Request Acess button if you want to obtain it)

We did a preliminary analysis of the presence of bots in the NumFocus ecosystem, and how their activities are differing from human activities
Presented this week during the ICSE 2025 BotSE workshop by Natarajan Chidambaram

This week during the ICSE 2025 workshop on bots in software engineering (BotSE), Natarajan Chidambaram presented our dataset, BIMBAS classification model and RABBIT open source tool for detecting bot accounts in GitHub repositories. All material is available online.

Award of the MSR2025 Distinguished Dataset to Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan and yours truly.
2025.msrconf.org/details/msr-...

Our dataset on contributor activities in the NumFocus ecosystem on GitHub will be presented today by Youness Hourri @MSR2025 in Ottawa. It receided the distinguished dataset award, so come and check it out! All details here: orbi.umons.ac.be/bitstream/20...

The UMONS Software Engineering Lab wishes you a wonderful holiday season filled with happiness, love and health !

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On Nov 22 in 1995 GIMP was released. GIMP is special for me since together with Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes and Philippe Grosjean we have studied its evolution during my sabbatical in Mons (2012): (a) a page of our chapter, (b) me in Mons by Tom Mens, (c) the Pentagone building of CS.

#computerhistory

SE researchers try advanced ML for "everything" (and conferences encourage it by demanding "novelty") but few investigate that complexity-vs-accuracy ROI for practitioners.

90 second video teaser of our @JSSoftware
article "A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences" co-authored by Natarajan Chidambaram, @alexandredecan.bsky.social and myself:
t.co/ukGuvfPSqz

@aserebrenik.bsky.social hallo, ik ben net client geworden van bluesky, hipelijk een stuk beter dan twitter. Ben jij er tevreden van? Groetjes, Tom