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Fri, 10 Jul 2009
Dundalk Inst Tech Student Awarded Prize at Eusprig Conference in Paris
http://irishdev.com/Home/News/581-DKIT-Scoop-Prize-at-Paris-Event.html
Ruth McKeever, Kevin McDaid & Brian Bishop of Dundalk Institute of
Technology, have won the Student Prize this year's annual conference of
the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) in Paris.
Their work, "Analysis of the Impact of Named Ranges on the Debugging
Performance of Novice Users," was described by the international panel
of judges, which included Martin Erwig of Oregon State University, as a
'well-designed and thoroughly executed piece of research.'
The research directly challenged the common advice to use range names.
The results show that for novice debuggers "a spreadsheet that contains
range names in formulas will be more difficult to inspect and correct
than a spreadsheet that does not use names in formulas".
http://www.eusprig.org