University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering SPOTLIGHT

Current Spotlights:

• Engineering Open House, April 24-5, 1998

• Professional Masters Program

• Graduate School of Library and Information Science Director Search and Futures Committee Report

• 1997-98 Distinguished Lecturer Series (October 16, November 6, November 13, February 19)

• 1997-98 Technology Lecture Series (October 20, February 26, April 27)

• 1997-98 High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker Series (October 9, October 23, November 6, November 20, December 4)

• Faculty Positions Open New for 1998

• Business Week ranking of information technology research laboratories

• UW wins "A+ Partnership Award" for Outstanding Contributions to the Seattle Public Schools

• David Salesin receives 1997 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award (May 1997)

• A team of three UW CSE students finished second in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest on March 3. More than 1000 teams from around the world competed in regional contests for the right to participate in the International finals.

• Major support from Intel Corporation

• Major support from Microsoft Corporation

• News items

• Here's an integrated overview of our department.

• The Impact of a Research University: An Information Technology Perspective describes the role of a research university, with a UW CSE perspective.

Previous Spotlights:

• 1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (September 19-21)

• Usenix Windows NT Research Workshop (August 11-13)

• UW/Microsoft Summer Research Institute in Data Mining (July 6-11)

• UW CSE team develops Java security architecture, identifies security holes (May 1997)

  A UW CSE team has developed an alternative security architecture for Java. The work includes the implementation of a secure Java verifier, and an automatic testing methodology that covers a large number of security attacks. Application of the UW test suite against commercial Java implementations has exposed a number of security holes, weaknesses, and ambiguities in commercial Java verifiers.

  Kimera project overview
  Sun announcement
  The Net announcement
  Microsoft announcement

• A short computer animation created last year by the students of CSE 490, Fish Shtick, has been accepted into the 1997 Seattle International Film Festival. It is scheduled to be part of the North X Northwest Short films at the Harvard Exit. The date is Wednesday, May 21 and the time is 7:15 pm.

  Fish Shtick was created in five weeks (including story development) as part of an innovative multi-disciplinary course in the Spring of 1996. It was taught to teams of undergraduates from Art and Computer Science & Engineering by Professor David Salesin, Ronen Barzel (Pixar Animation Studios), and Annabella Serra (Rainsound). Guest lecturers came from Disney, Dreamworks Interactive, Microsoft, Pacific Data Images, Pixar, Rhythm & Hues, and the UW School of Music.

  View a NetShow video on the making of Fish Shtick.

• The Spring 1997 issue of Mossy Bits, UW CSE graduate student creative arts journal, is now online.

• Charles Simonyi, Microsoft, spoke in our Technology Lecture Series, Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m., 210 Kane Hall.

• "A Half Century of Exponential Progress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How" -- the 20th Annual University of Washington Faculty Lecture, presented by Ed Lazowska -- describes the process of innovation in information technology. It's available on the web as html transparencies or as transparencies plus RealAudio.

• Our professional Masters program began in Autumn 1996.

• We've produced two videos highlighting recent educational initiatives -- our capstone embedded system design course, and a multidisciplinary computer animation course.

• Intel Corporation has donated $1,475,650 in workstation equipment to Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, in connection with the EE/CSE Building project.

• In June, 1996 Professor Richard M. Karp was announced as a recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Science.

• 1997 Meeting of our Industrial Affiliates Program, February 24 & 25, including a talk by Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO of Amazon.com

• Our annual Distinguished Lecturer Series takes place on the first four Thursdays in October.

• We celebrated our new Professional Masters Program with an Inaugural Lecture on November 7 by Patrick Naughton, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Starwave.

• April 1996 Engineering Open House (for high school students)