The actors behind Flash Fill

January 20, 2021
Sumit Gulwani | Microsoft
Microsoft at POPL 2021

Sumit acknowledges 5 sets of people in this 5-minute award acceptance talk for his "most influential" POPL 2011 paper, which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel. He shares inside stories of the role that these actors played in this invention and its impact.

- Sumit Gulwani
  
  Distinguished Scientist and Vice President
Research Area
Research Lab
- Microsoft Research Lab - Redmond
Group
- PROSE
Event
- Microsoft at POPL 2021
Publication
- Automating String Processing in Spreadsheets using Input-Output Examples

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