Ben Stephenson

51 papers A 7B 3Misc 1Journal 11Unranked 18

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	—	`conf`	Comparing Student Performance on Un-Proctored Online Exams and Proctored In-Person Exams in a CS0 Course. SIGCSE (1) Ben Stephenson
2026	—	`conf`	Image Compression / Decompression (The OK Text Image Format). SIGCSE (2) Ben Stephenson
2026	—	`conf`	Sticky Analogies. SIGCSE (2) Joël Porquet-Lupine, Maria R. Ebling, Dan Garcia, Colleen M. Lewis, Michael Guerzhoy, Bill Siever, Ben Stephenson, James Stephen Williams
2025	—	`book`	The Python Workbook - A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions, Third Editiontion Ben Stephenson
2024	J	`jnl`	2024 SIGCSE Technical Symposium Report. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey A. Stone, Lina Battestilli, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop, Delaram Yazdansepas, Oluwakemi Ola
2024	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2024, Volume 1, Portland, OR, USA, March 20-23, 2024 SIGCSE (1) Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey A. Stone, Lina Battestilli, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop
2024	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2024, Volume 2, Portland, OR, USA, March 20-23, 2024 SIGCSE (2) Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey A. Stone, Lina Battestilli, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop
2024	J	`jnl`	SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024: Information for Attendees. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey A. Stone, Lina Battestilli, Samuel A. Rebelsky, Libby Shoop
2023	—	`conf`	Nifty Assignment: Viper. WCCCE Ben Stephenson
2023	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, SIGCSE 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 15-18, 2023. SIGCSE (1) Maureen Doyle, Ben Stephenson, Brian Dorn, Leen-Kiat Soh, Lina Battestilli
2023	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, SIGCSE 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 15-18, 2023. SIGCSE (2) Maureen Doyle, Ben Stephenson, Brian Dorn, Leen-Kiat Soh, Lina Battestilli
2023	J	`jnl`	SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2023 Report. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Maureen Doyle, Ben Stephenson, Brian Dorn, Leen-Kiat Soh, Lina Battestilli, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Delaram Yazdansepas
2023	J	`jnl`	SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2023: Information for Attendees. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Maureen Doyle, Ben Stephenson, Brian Dorn, Leen-Kiat Soh, Lina Battestilli, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Delaram Yazdansepas
2023	J	`jnl`	SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024: Blazing New Trails in CS Education. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey A. Stone
2022	—	`conf`	Nifty Assignments. SIGCSE (2) Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Eric S. Roberts, Jed Rembold, Ben Stephenson, Jonathan Hudson, Stephanie Valentine, Juliette Woodrow, Kathleen Creel, Nick Bowman, Larry Joshua Crotts, Andrew Matzureff, Mike Izbicki
2022	J	`jnl`	SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2023: Call for Participation. ACM SIGCSE Bull. Maureen Doyle, Ben Stephenson
2021	A	`conf`	Nifty Assignments. SIGCSE Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Adrian A. de Freitas, Troy B. Weingart, Keith Schwarz, Ben Stephenson, Steven Bitner
2021	A	`conf`	Using a Computer to Score Parsons Problems Answered on Paper. SIGCSE Ben Stephenson, Guransh Mangat
2019	A	`conf`	Coding Demonstration Videos for CS1. SIGCSE Ben Stephenson
2019	A	`conf`	Nifty Assignments. SIGCSE Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Benjamin Dicken, Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey L. Popyack, William M. Mongan, Kendall Bingham, Diane Horton, David Liu, Allison Obourn
2019	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 24th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, WCCCE '19, Calgary, AB, Canada, May 3-4, 2019 WCCCE Ben Stephenson
2019	—	`book`	The Python Workbook - A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions, Second Edition Ben Stephenson
2018	—	`conf`	An Experience Using On-Computer Programming Questions During Exams. WCCCE Ben Stephenson
2018	—	`conf`	Exam Wrappers: Not a Silver Bullet. WCCCE Ben Stephenson, Michelle Craig, Daniel Zingaro, Diane Horton, Danny Heap, Elaine Huynh
2018	—	`book`	Fundamentals of Discrete Math for Computer Science - A Problem-Solving Primer, Second Edition Tom Jenkyns, Ben Stephenson
2018	A	`conf`	Nifty Assignments. SIGCSE Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Ben Stephenson, Ali Malik, Phil Ventura, Michael Guerzhoy, David Reed, Josh Hug
2017	A	`conf`	Exam Wrappers: Not a Silver Bullet. SIGCSE Ben Stephenson, Michelle Craig, Daniel Zingaro, Diane Horton, Danny Heap, Elaine Huynh
2016	B	`conf`	A Multi-Phase Search Approach to the LEGO Construction Problem. SOCS Ben Stephenson
2016	Misc	`conf`	An Industrial Partnership Game Development Capstone Course. SIGITE Ben Stephenson, Mark James, Nigel Brooke, John Aycock
2016	—	`conf`	Unix Literacy for First-Year Computer Science Students. WCCCE Tyson Kendon, Ben Stephenson
2014	J	`jnl`	A case study examining the impact of time of day on teaching evaluations. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Ben Stephenson, Flora Stephenson
2014	J	`jnl`	Teaching assistant in residence: a novel peer mentorship program for less experienced teaching assistants. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Ben Stephenson, Andrew Kuipers, Rosa Karimi Adl, Flora Stephenson
2014	—	`book`	The Python Workbook - A Brief Introduction with Exercises and Solutions Ben Stephenson
2013	J	`jnl`	Foreword. Sci. Comput. Program. Markus Aleksy, Ralf Gitzel, Andreas Krall, Hanspeter Mössenböck, Christian W. Probst, Ben Stephenson
2013	—	`book`	Fundamentals of Discrete Math for Computer Science - A Problem-Solving Primer. Tom Jenkyns, Ben Stephenson
2012	—	`conf`	The Gold Standard: Automatically Generating Puzzle Game Levels. AIIDE David Williams-King, Jörg Denzinger, John Aycock, Ben Stephenson
2012	J	`jnl`	The impacts of providing novice computer science students with a second chance on their midterm exams. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Ben Stephenson
2011	—	`conf`	User-preference-based automated level generation for platform games. CIG Nick Nygren, Jörg Denzinger, Ben Stephenson, John Aycock
2009	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, PPPJ 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 27-28, 2009 PPPJ Ben Stephenson, Christian W. Probst
2009	A	`conf`	QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year. SIGCSE Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock
2009	J	`jnl`	Using graphical examples to motivate the study of recursion. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Ben Stephenson
2009	—	`conf`	Using python and QuickDraw to foster student engagement in CS1. OOPSLA Companion Ben Stephenson
2009	B	`conf`	Visual examples of recursion. ITiCSE Ben Stephenson
2007	B	`conf`	An Efficient Algorithm for Identifying the Most Contributory Substring. DaWaK Ben Stephenson
2007	—	`conf`	Multiprocessed parallelism support in ALDOR on SMPs and multicores. PASCO Marc Moreno Maza, Ben Stephenson, Stephen M. Watt, Yuzhen Xie
2006	—	`conf`	An evaluation of secialized Java bytecodes. OOPSLA Companion Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst
2005	—	`conf`	A technique for utilizing optimization potential during multicode identification. OOPSLA Companion Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst
2004	—	`conf`	A quantitative analysis of Java bytecode sequences. PPPJ Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst
2004	—	`conf`	A quantitative analysis of the performance impact of specialized bytecodes in java. CASCON Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst
2004	—	`conf`	Advancements in multicode optimization. OOPSLA Companion Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst
2003	—	`conf`	Multicodes: optimizing virtual machines using bytecode sequences. OOPSLA Companion Ben Stephenson, Wade Holst

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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