[cbi-announce] Thank you!

[Ben Liblit <liblit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Things have been quiet here lately, though I continue to post new 
package releases as warranted.  Perhaps you even forgot that you're 
still on the <cbi-announce> mailing list.  :-)

Today I'm pleased to share some very happy news, at the risk of being a 
bit self-promoting.  The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is 
the major professional organization for computer science and 
engineering. Each year they recognize one outstanding doctoral 
dissertation in those fields from among all those written and nominated 
worldwide.

The 2005 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner is ... yours truly, for 
my dissertation entitled "Cooperative Bug Isolation"!  Whee!   :-D   See 
<http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/liblit.cfm> 
for the official press release.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for supporting this 
work.  By its very nature, this project could not have happened without 
the help and support of a willing user community.  To quote from part of 
the Acknowledgments section of my dissertation:

    I am indebted to the many members of the open source community who
    have supported our work.  My thanks go out to the many anonymous
    users of our public deployment, and to the developers of the open
    source projects used in our public deployment and case studies.

So ... thanks.  I couldn't have done this without you.

Amusing footnote: the first draft of ACM's press release described my 
approach as "gathering information from the executions of large numbers 
of software end users."  I pointed out that this makes me sound like a 
serial killer and suggested that they change "executions" to 
"experiences".  Much better.  :-)