The Early Researcher Award program, administered through the province of Ontario, assists promising, recently appointed researchers to build their research teams. This year, three faculty members with links to the Faculty of Mathematics were among the winners.
McIntosh's research encompasses empirical software engineering, with a specific focus on release engineering and software quality.
“Modern software development is multifaceted,” he explains. “Source code describes how software systems should behave, but a collection of other software artifacts and tools are needed to create software that’s ready to be released. Each of these artifacts and tools manage part of the software release process, but it is the build system — the system that specifies how the source code is translated into deliverables — that weaves them together into a cohesive whole.”
Read more in the feature article on the Cheriton School of Computer Science website.