The story of Flash Fill and (how it shaped) me

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On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel), Sumit shares stories related to his inspiration for the problem definition in the paper, the solution strategy, and the impact that came after. These stories span a decade before and after this paper, with this paper being the most important turning point in his research philosophy and career. These stories speak to his learnings that are as much cultural as technical.

Most Influential Test of Time paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/automating-string-processing-spreadsheets-using-input-output-examples/

The PROSE research and engineering team: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/prose/



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