Naser Al Madi

Assistant Professor at Colby College
Eye tracking and Software Engineering researcher
All-round great person (according to my mom)

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

My students Anya Brewer and Lucas Lefebvre turned me into a game character for their final project in CS151!! Super Al Madi Bros. is developed in Python Turtle.

[Amy J. Ko 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🐈 @amyjko]

My absolute favorite line: 'We should be building machines that work for us, instead of "adapting" society to be machine readable and writable.'

Nothing could be more central than centering people, and nothing is more anathema than the longtermist premise that doesn't.

[Colby College @ColbyCollege]

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Naser Al Madi and Brunda Katikireddy ’24 were inspired to start a Colby chapter of @Enablethefuture, an organization that relies on volunteers to use their 3D printers to build prosthetics. https://t.co/8H4EAp7ARN

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

@dbkahn @dillardsarah That’s me! And here is how I use it. https://t.co/EsD3MPpyVT

[Upol Ehsan @UpolEhsan]

When a company is struggling to make ends meet, #layoffs make sense.

When a company makes record profits and *chooses* layoffs, it says where the company's values lie.

When an industry normalizes such layoffs, we need to critically examine the industry itself.

#BigTech #labor

[PyQuant News 🐍 @pyquantnews]

Algorithmic trading is the domain of secretive hedge funds and banks.

Python unlocked these secrets for everyone (even Goldman Sachs has an open-source tool).

Use the same tools the professionals use.

Here are 17 Python libraries that open the black box:

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

Finished an awesome Software Engineering class with some of @ColbyCollege's brightest students. It is a joy and an honor to be their Gru and professor. The moon better be careful!

[Krzysztof Cieślak 💙💛 @k_cieslak]

New day, a new lunch break... and a new Block.

This time it's a Block to display a beautiful code walkthrough created with @codehike_ (by @pomber) directly in your interactive readme.

Build with :heart: with #GitHubBlocks (by @GitHubNext)

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

@PreethaChatterj Since you mentioned productivity: Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering — Edited by Caitlin Sadowski and Thomas Zimmermann

[Toby J. Li😺 (he/him) @TobyJLi]

It's this special time of the year again when I cite @jeffbigham 's tweet at the first session of my Graduate HCI Research class...

[Colby College @ColbyCollege]

Colby announces today that families earning up to $75,000 with typical assets will expect a parent or guardian contribution of $0. https://t.co/bXCTz8NZQV

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

Preprint of the paper I presented today at @AesirWorkshop in @ASE_conf

https://t.co/rB7eelKnDR

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

Great keynote from @shbonita at @AesirWorkshop in @ASE_conf!

[aesir_workshop @AesirWorkshop]

Just started now our keynote by @shbonita (What Developer Gaze Can Tell Us About Readable Code)

[Mark Guzdial @guzdial]

I had 0 acceptances for 3 submissions for ICER 2022, and 0 acceptances for 2 submissions for SIGCSE 2023. Disappointing, but it happens.

[Casper Lassenius @drcls]

⁦@tomzimmermann⁩ Keynote ⁦@ESEM_conf⁩ #ESEM2022

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

"...the theoretical models I consider, and the problems I choose to work on, are only as interesting as the applications that motivate them."

[Jelani Nelson @minilek]

I've been a theorist working on algorithms in the academic ivory tower for 17 years. Last summer I started part-time in industry 1 day per week (@Google); this is fairly common amongst my more applied colleagues in ML/systems, but less so for theorists. I highly recommend it. 🧵

[Ipek Ozkaya @ipekozkaya]

The software engineering community has a fair share of these issues as well, resulting in more papers in the name of conference publishing but not necessarily more interesting outcomes that advance the discipline.

https://t.co/0MQX5wAxWu

[Himanshu Gupta @hgupta84]

10 advice for PhDs

1. Prioritize your MentalHealth over anything

[Bryan Dewsbury @BMDewsbury]

The case for gender-diverse research teams https://t.co/kwJD9hjKHV

[Naser Al Madi @NaserAlMadi1]

Here you can read my eye tracking study on the readability of model generated code investigating @GitHubCopilot. The paper has been accepted @AesirWorkshop at @ASE_conf:

https://t.co/rB7eelJPOj