And so CSMR concludes. Still recovering from the conference dinner (surreally hosted in the Hotel Alcatraz, which used to be a prison — and that’s not a joke). Enjoyed it here, conversed with some really interesting chaps, and one or two personal heroes.

Let me wrap up with some bite-sized snippets:

• Acceptance rate of papers: 31%
• Best paper award: “Incremental Clone Detection” by Nils Gode and Rainer Koscher
• Special award: Harry Sneed (“for leadership and many contributions to the practice and principled growth of software maintenance techniques and their industrialization.”)
• Population of Kaiserslautern: 100,000 approx.
• Time I have to wake up tomorrow to begin my journey home: 0545.