The authors of "Stochastic Program Optimization" have developed a stochastic search technique and applied it to program optimization.
Sumit Gulwani From Communications of the ACM | February 2016
Computer scientists have long believed that software is different from physical systems in one fundamental way: while the latter have continuous dynamics, the former...Swarat Chaudhuri, Sumit Gulwani, Roberto Lublinerman From Communications of the ACM | August 2012