In project Toady we investigate the importance of different forms of humor in science and software. It is a long-term research project funded by the Kingdom of Sweden. We are investigating the following research questions:
- to what extent does humor contribute to scientific excellence?
- to what extent does humor contribute to training top caliber PhD students?
- to what extent does humor contribute to outreach?
- to what extent does humor contribute to engineering critical software?
Principal investigators: Prof. Benoit Baudry, Prof. Martin Monperrus
Contact: [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-2805
- With Great Humor Comes Great Developer Engagement (doi:10.1145/3639475.3640099), Proceedings of ICSE, 2024
- Versteckte Botschaften – Easter Eggs in wissenschaftlichen Fachpublikationen, podcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2023
- Automatic Specialization of Third-Party Java Dependencies (doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3324950), IEEE TSE 2023
- WebAssembly Diversification for Malware Evasion (doi:10.1016/j.cose.2023.103296), Computers & Security, 2023
- Exhaustive Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature (doi:10.48550/arXiv.2204.06826), SIGBOVIK 2022
- Long Live Software Easter Eggs! (doi:10.1145/3534857), ACM Queue 2022
- 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs
- The Bourbaki project
- The Camille Noûs project, publications
- The Harry Q. Bovik project, for his prolific contribution to humor in science and for the creation of the SIGBOVIK
- Les horribles cernettes, for their unique blend of style and physics
- Josiah S. Carberry, a fictional professor, created as a joke in 1929, who was awarded an Ig Nobel in 1991
- Ig Nobel featured three fictional recipients for fictional achievements