Jaime Spacco

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Contact 309-341-7956 jspacco@knox.edu

General Interests
"I am interested in collecting and analyzing data to better understand how people build good software, from the process and techniques used to build large systems down to the short but often intense experiences novices have while learning to program."

Years at Knox: 2010 to present

Education
Ph.D., 2006, University of Maryland.
M.S., 2002, University of Maryland.
B.A., 1998, Haverford College.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
University of Maryland Innovation in Teaching with Technology (UMITT) Award, 2006.

Publications
"Lightweight techniques for tracking unique program statements," with Chadd Williams, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Edmonton, AB, 2009.

"Dcer: sharing empirical computer science education data," Kate, S., Brad, R., Jan, E. M., Vicki, A., Stephen, E., Sally, F., Kat, G., Mark, H., Brian, H., Stephen, L., Robert, M., Briana, M., Jaime, S., & Lynda, T., in ICER '08: Proceedings of the Fourth International Computing Education Research Workshop, 2008.

"Szz revisited: Verifying when changes induce xes," with Chad Williams, in DEFECTS '08: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Software Defects, Seattle, WA, 2008.

"Branching and merging in the repository," with Chad Williams, in MSR '08: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, Leipzig, Germany, 2008.

"Inferring use cases from unit testing," Jaime, S., Titus, W., & Tom, P, in AAAI Workshop on Educational Data Mining, New York, NY, 2006.

"Experiences with marmoset," Jaime, S., David, H., William, P., Fawzi, E., Je rey, K. H., & Nelson, P. P., in 11th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2006.

"Tracking defect warnings across versions," Jaime, S., David, H., William, P., in Proceedings of the Mining Software Repositories Workshop, Shanghai, China, 2006.

"Evaluating and tuning a static analysis to nd null pointer bugs," David, H., Jaime, S., & Bill, P., in ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, ed. Michael D. Ernst and Thomas Jensen, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.

"Software repository mining with Marmoset: An automated programming project snapshot and testing system," Jaime, S., Jaymie, S., David, H., & William, P., in Proceedings of the Mining Software Repositories Workshop, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005.

"Transparent proxies for java futures," Polyvios, P., Jaime, S., & Michael, H, in OOPSLA '04: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, New York, NY, 2004.

"Rubis revisited: why j2ee benchmarking is hard," with William Pugh, in Companion to the 19th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, ed. John M. Vlissides and Douglas C. Schmidt, Vancouver, BC, 2004.

"An eclipse-based course project snapshot and submission system," Jaime, S., David, H., & William, P., in 3rd Eclipse Technology Exchange Workshop (eTX), Vancouver, BC, 2004.

"Evaluating the impact of programming language features on the performance of parallel applications on cluster architectures," Konstantin, B., Jun, H., Mary, J., Garima, K., Jan, P., William, P., P. Sadayappan, Jaime, S., & Chau-Wen, T., in LCPC '03: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 16th International Conference, ed. Lawrence Rauchwerger, vol. 2958 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), 194-208, 2003.

"Mpjava: High-performance message passing in java using java.nio," with William Pugh, in LCPC '03: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 16th International Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), ed. Lawrence Rauchwerger, 323-339, 2003.

"Atomic instructions in java," David H., William P., & Jaime, S., in ECOOP '02: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (Springer-Verlag), 133-154, London, UK, 2002.

Presentations
"Marmoset: An automated snapshot, submission and testing system." William, P., David, H., & Jaime, S. Poster presented at SigCSE Poster Session, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005.

"RUBiS Revisited: Why J2EE Benchmarking is Hard." Poster presented at the OOPSLA Poster Session, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2004.

"Using Java.nio for High-Performance Message Passing." With William Pugh. Poster presented at the Java-Grande Poster Session, Seattle, Washington, 2002.

Campus & Community Involvement
Curriculum contributor, University of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Teacher, High School Seminar Program, 2008.
Member, Executive Council of CS Graduate Students, 1999-2004.
Organizer and Volunteer, SCORE Study Groups.
President, Executive Council, 2002-2003.
Department Representative, Graduate Student Government, 2002-2003.
Graduate Representative, Education Committee, 2002-2003.