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Construction on CSE's new building continues, and the department is scheduled to move into the new building in September 2003. The building has been named the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering in recognition of the $14 million commitment made by Allen to the UW for this project. Paul Allen and Bill Gates "got a big part of our start in computer science through the University of Washington when we were still students at Lakeside School," said Paul Allen in announcing his gift. "UW Computer Science & Engineering is an engine of opportunity, and we want to help make sure it's an even more cutting-edge resource for coming generations." Microsoft Corporation donated $7.2 million for the building, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $6.5 million to the project, as well. Said Microsoft company spokesman Matt Pilla, "To Microsoft, it's vital that the UW continues to be an engine for technology innovation and a catalyst for economic development throughout the region."
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The annual graduate program rankings of US News & World Report have again placed UW CSE among the top ten programs in the nation in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and all three US News computer science sub-fields: Artificial Intelligence, Systems, and Theory. UW CSE's undergraduate Computer Engineering program also is ranked among the top ten by US News. (US News does not rank undergraduate Computer Science programs.)
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UW CSE was rated #1 among doctoral programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the National Doctoral Program Survey. In the survey, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, current and recent doctoral students were asked to report on their experience in graduate school, and to assess their programs' implementation of educational practices recommended by the National Academies, the Association of American Universities, and others. "Note: This is an observational study, not a controlled experiment."
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Venkatesan Guruswami has joined the CSE faculty as an Assistant Professor. Venkat's main research interests lie in Theoretical Computer Science, and specifically focus on topics such as Error-correcting codes, Graph-theoretic optimization and approximation problems, Probabilistically Checkable Proofs, Hardness of Approximations, and Complexity Theory. Venkat comes to us from MIT, after spending a post-doc at UC-Berkeley under a Miller Research Fellowship.
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Simultaneous Multi-Threading, a novel scalar computer architecture pioneered by UW CSE faculty members Susan Eggers and Hank Levy and their student Dean Tullsen (now on the faculty at UC San Diego), has been incorporated into Intel processors. SMT offers dramatic improvements in scalar processor performance over existing architectures.
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CSE Startups continued to garner press this year:
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At the 2002 WSA Industry Achievement Awards on February 7, UW CSE startup Impinj was named the winner for "Most Promising New Technology." UW CSE startup Nimble Technology was one of three finalists for "Most Promising New Company," and Singingfish, a startup whose founders include UW CSE graduates, was one of three finalists for "Consumer Product of the Year."
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Impinj was also profiled in Red Herring (article here) and Technology Review (article here).
- It's been another incredibly successful year for CSE Faculty, Students and Alumni, as evidenced by the honors they've accumulated:
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Professor Hank Levy was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Levy, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was previously named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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CSE Chair David Notkin was selected by R1edu, a distance learning consortium of 33 leading research universities, as one of three faculty members honored in its annual award competition. David was recognized for his work on the Learning Anywhere Anytime Partnership project with Prentice Hall, PBS and the Worldwide Organization of Webmasters. The $1.5 million project has resulted in four cutting-edge Internet-related certificate programs. R1edu also acknowledged David's role in the $1.5 million Department of Labor grant to create online computer science courses for a Computing & Software Systems program in cooperation with UW Bothell. Ed Lazowska was honored by R1edu last year.
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It was a very good year for Steve Seitz. He has become CSE's eighth recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, following in the footsteps of Tom Anderson, Brian Curless, Chris Diorio, Alon Halevy, Raj Rao, David Salesin, and Dan Suciu. Additionally, Steve joins CSE faculty members Brian Bershad, Chris Diorio, David Salesin, and Dan Weld as a recipient of the extremely competitive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Steve is also a two-time winner of the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International Conference of Computer Vision, and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award.
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CSE professor Raj Rao has been honored with a 2002 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Rao joins CSE professor Chris Diorio as a recipient of this extraordinarily competitive award. (Diorio was honored in 1998.) Rao also has been recognized by a Sloan Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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UW CSE's first chair Jerre Noe and his ERMA team have been honored by SRI with the Weldon B. Gibson Achievement Award. Jerre -- then SRI's Assistant Director of Engineering -- led the technical team that first computerized banking in the 1950s for Bank of America.
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CSE Adjunct Professors Phil Green and Maynard Olson are two of eight recipients of the Gairdner International Awards for 2002. The Gairdner Foundation awards are considered among the most prestigious in medical science. Since 1959, 56 of the 255 scientists receiving them have gone on to win Nobel prizes.
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Affiliate Professor Leroy Hood, President and Director of the Institute for Systems Biology, was selected to receive the 2002 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "outstanding contributions to life sciences through the development of automated instruments for the determination of protein and DNA sequences and their syntheses." The prize, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation, consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a cash gift of 50 million yen (approximatly $410,000). Additionally, Hood was named the inaugural recipient of The Economist's Innovation Award in Bioscience. "Lee Hood's automated sequencing technology galvanized the international medical community in its quest to map the human genome in the late 1990's," stated Nick Valery, editor, The Economist Technology Quarterly. "The successful completion of this ambitious endeavor has huge implications for human health, the biotech industry, and the field of medical ethics. Dr. Hood's work has spawned an entirely new industry and brought humanity closer to understanding the nature of its very being."
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CSE alum Anne Condon was recently named a Distinguished Alumnus at University College Cork, her undergraduate institution. Condon, a professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, has received tremendous recognition for her work in DNA computing. The Economist recently saluted her and her research team for having taken “DNA computing from the free-floating world of the test-tube and anchoring it securely to a surface of glass and gold."
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CSE undergraduates Sara Su and Shirley Gaw have been honored in the Computing Research Association's 2002 Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition. Sara was selected as Runner Up for the female award. Shirley received Honorable Mention. In the 2001 competition, CSE's Kevin Zatloukal was selected as the nation's outstanding male undergraduate, and CSE's Matt Rosencrantz and Steve Zhang received Honorable Mention. In the 2000 competition, CSE's Emma Brunskill (subsequent winner of a Rhodes Scholarship) was selected as Runner Up for the female award, and CSE's Adnan Sulejmanpasic received Honorable Mention.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded 3-year Graduate Research Fellowships -- among the nation's most competitive graduate fellowships -- to CSE first-year graduate student Nick Deibel, and to grad-school-bound CSE technical staff member David Akers and undergraduates Shirley Gaw and Sara Su. CSE first-year graduate student Andrew Petersen received Honorable Mention in this year's competition, as did former CSE undergraduate Gary Look (now a graduate student at MIT) and I-School doctoral candidate Nathan Freier (who has been conducting research with CSE Professor Alan Borning for several years).
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CSE grad student Steve Wolfman won both the College of Engineering's Outstanding Teaching Assistant award, but he was also recognized University-wide by winning an Excellence in Teaching Award.
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CSE Alum Albert Greenberg, of AT&T's Internet and Network Systems Research Lab, was named a 2002 AT&T Fellow for his groundbreaking contributions to IP traffic measurement and network management tools. Albert is one of the world's leading authorities on IP traffic measurement and management tools for large operational IP networks - namely networks of AT&T's scale and complexity. He has fundamentally changed this field through innovation and leadership in applying measurement, analysis, and control techniques to large-scale problems. The result is a large body of knowledge, stronger foundation, and an innovative set of tools for managing and evolving IP networks.
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