{"51812":{"#nid":"51812","#data":{"type":"news","title":"National Science Foundation Awards Grant to Mary Jean Harrold, Professor of Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Jean Harrold, Computing Sciences and Systems (CSS) division professor and member of the SPARC Group was awarded a grant from NSF\u2019s highly-competitive\u00a0Computing\u00a0and Communication Foundations (CCF)\u00a0Program\u00a0Her project titled, Automatic Fault Localization Using Statistics and Visualization will be funded for three years for a total of $409,430.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExisting automated debugging techniques have limitations that prevent them from scaling to industrial systems.\u00a0Harrold\u0027s project will investigate fault-localization techniques that can be used in practice through several activities:\u00a0the research will develop improved techniques that can more quickly guide the user to the faulty regions of the system and exploit programmer knowledge and guidance; the research will design and conduct controlled experiments and case studies to evaluate cost-benefits of new and improved techniques, as well as to understand the factors contributing to those costs-benefits; the research will also assemble an infrastructure of programs, faulty versions, and test suites for future fault-localization approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information regarding this award, as well as the other 12 NSF Awards Mary Jean Harrold has received throughout her career, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/afSearch.do?PILastName=Harrold\u0026amp;PIFirstName=Mary\u0026amp;page=4\u0026amp;SearchType=afSearch\u0026amp;QueryText=\u0026amp;ProgProgram=\u0026amp;COPILastName=\u0026amp;COPIFirstName=\u0026amp;IncludeCOPI=\u0026amp;PIInstitution=\u0026amp;PIState=\u0026amp;PIZip=\u0026amp;PICountry=\u0026amp;ProgOrganization=\u0026amp;ProgOfficer=\u0026amp;ProgEleCode=\u0026amp;ProgRefCode=\u0026amp;ProgFoaCode=\u0026amp;CongDistCode=\u0026amp;AwardNumberOperator=\u0026amp;AwardNumberFrom=\u0026amp;AwardNumberTo=\u0026amp;StartDateOperator=\u0026amp;ExpDateOperator=\u0026amp;StartDateFrom=\u0026amp;StartDateTo=\u0026amp;ExpDateFrom=\u0026amp;ExpDateTo=\u0026amp;AwardAmount=\u0026amp;AwardInstrument=\u0026amp;Search=Search#results\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u00a0NSF\u2019s Computing\u00a0and Communication Foundations (CCF) Program will\u00a0fund over $400,000 towards\u00a0Harrold\u0027s research project titled, Automatic Fault Localization Using Statistics and Visualization.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}