Recommended reading:
Computing
Research: Driving Information
Technology and the Information Industry Forward
"A
Half Century of Exponential
Progress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where,
Why, and How" (1996 University of Washington Annual
Faculty Lecture)
"Computer
Science: Still Crazy After All These Years" (2001 University of
Washington Science Forum lecture)
Computing
Research Association Government Affairs page
Quantitative
System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network
Models
Barriers
to Equality in Academia
Leadership
in a University
John
Gannon -- undergraduate, graduate, and professional friend
and colleague -- passed away June 12 1999
"If you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
Drumheller Fountain, looking south
towards Mt. Rainier
University of Washington photo
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Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair
in Computer Science in the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington.
Lazowska received his A.B. from
Brown University in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the
University of Toronto
in 1977, when he joined the University of Washington faculty.
Lazowska's research and teaching concern the design,
implementation, and analysis of high-performance computing
and communication systems.
For the first ten years of his career, Lazowska's principal
focus was computer system performance: the development of
effective performance evaluation techniques, and the use
of these techniques to gain insight about significant
computer systems and computer system design issues.
Lazowska then turned his attention to the design and
implementation of distributed and parallel computer
systems - work that yielded a number of widely-embraced
approaches to kernel and system design in areas such as
thread management, high-performance local and remote
communication, load sharing, cluster computing, and the
effective use of the underlying architecture by the operating
system.
Nineteen
Ph.D.
students and 23
M.S. students
have completed degrees working with him.
Lazowska is a
Member
of the National Academy of Engineering, a
Fellow
of the Association
for Computing Machinery, a
Fellow
of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
and a
Fellow
of the
American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
He was selected to deliver the
1996
University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecture,
and to receive the
1998
University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award.
He chaired the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering
from 1993-2001; under his leadership, the Department
received the inaugural
University
of Washington Brotman Award
for Instructional Excellence,
four CSE faculty members were recognized
with the
University
of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award,
one with the
University
of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award,
and eight with
Sloan
Research Fellowships.
In 2000 Lazowska was named to the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair
in Computer Science, and included in the
BAM
100 -- "the one hundred Brown University
alumni who arguably had the greatest impact, for good or
for ill [they didn't say which], on the twentieth century."
Spring in the Humanities Quadrangle
University of Washington photo
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In the past five years Lazowska has undertaken a
significant public service role.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Computing Research
Association (CRA's members are the
graduate departments and industrial research laboratories
in the field). He served as Chair of the CRA Board
from 1997-2001, and currently co-chairs
CRA's Government Affairs Committee.
He serves on
the National Research Council's
Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board
and on the NRC
Committee
on Improving Learning with Information Technology
and
Committee
on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism - Panel
on Information Technology.
He is the vice-chair (and chair-designate) of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's
Information
Science And Technology (ISAT) study group,
on which he served as a member from 1998-2001.
From 1995-2000 he served on (and in 1998 and 1999 he
chaired) the National Science Foundation's
Advisory
Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
He is a member of the Technical Advisory Boards for
Microsoft Research,
Voyager
Capital,
Ignition,
Frazier
Technology Ventures,
Madrona Venture
Group,
and
Impinj,
and of the Boards of Directors of
Data I/O Corporation
and Lguide.com.
He is a member of the
ACM Council,
and of the Boards of Directors of the
Washington
Software Alliance and the
Technology
Alliance of Washington,
as well as serving on the
Washington State
Information Services Board,
in connection with which he was recognized
in 2002 by Government Technology magazine
as a member of the inaugural "GT 25" national leaders
of information technology in state goverment.
He belongs to the standing advisory committees
for the
College of Computing at
the Georgia Institute of Technology,
the Departments of Computer Science at
the University
of Virginia
and the Hong
Kong University of Science & Technology,
and the Program in Informatics of the
National College of Ireland.
He has recently chaired external review committees for
the computer science programs at
Rice University,
the University of Virginia,
Princeton University,
and the
Georgia Institute of Technology,
as well as for the statistics program at the
University
of Washington.
He also serves as a member of the Board of
Trustees of Seattle's
Lakeside School.
Suzzallo Library
University of Washington photo
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In past years, Lazowska served as
a member (and 1999-2000 Chair) of ACM's
A.M.
Turing Award selection committee, as a member of the
NSF
50th Anniversary Public Advisory Committee,
as a member of the National Research Council
panel that reviewed the multi-agency
High
Performance Computing
and Communications program
(the "Brooks/Sutherland Committee"),
as a member of the NRC committee on
Research
Horizons in Networking,
as Chair of the Committee of Examiners
for the
Graduate Record
Examinations Board Computer Science Test,
as Chair of
ACM SIGMETRICS
(the Association for Computing Machinery's
Special Interest Group concerned with computer system performance),
as Chair of the
ACM
Software System Award Committee, as Program Chair
of the 13th
ACM
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and as
editor of
IEEE Transactions
on Computers.
At the University of Washington, in addition to
serving as Chair of the Department of Computer
Science & Engineering from 1993-2001,
Lazowska has recently served
as Chair of the University Advisory Committee on
Academic Technology,
as Chair of the review committee for the Department of Statistics,
as a member of the Futures Committee for the Graduate
School of Library and Information Sciences, as a member of the
Committee on the Deanship of the College of Arts
and Sciences, as Chair of the review committee for
the Ph.D. program in Molecular Biotechnology, and as a
member of the performance review committee for the Dean
of Engineering.
Lazowska spent 1984-85 on sabbatical at the DEC Systems
Research Center and Stanford University, and 2001-02 on
sabbatical at the University of California, San Diego.
The UCSD Computer Science & Engineering faculty
includes five UW CSE Ph.D. alumni and one UW CSE B.S.
alumnus on the faculty -- see a wonderful photo
here.
Miscellaneous links:
UW
CSE news items
An integrated
overview of the University of Washington, the
Department, and the region
"The
Impact of a Research University: An Information Technology Perspective"
"UW
CSE: At the center of change"
Winter Sunset on Mt. Rainier
Mt. Rainier National Park
Photo by Dan Weld
|
Computing
Research: Driving Information
Technology and the Information Industry Forward
"A
Half Century of Exponential
Progress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where,
Why, and How" (1996 University of Washington Annual
Faculty Lecture)
Presentation
to computer science and computer engineering department chairs
and lab directors at the 1998 CRA Conference at Snowbird
Discussion
of IT workforce issues
The Space Needle
Space Needle photo
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"Telecommunications:
Challenges and Opportunities" (presentation to the legislative retreat
of the Technology Alliance of Washington, September 1997)
"Cool
Computing: Learning and Doing in the Digital Age" (University of
Washington "Frontiers Lecture," April 1997).
"Driver's
Ed for the Information Highway" (University of Washington "Saturday
Seminar," November 1995)
Testimony
to the House
Appropriations Committee concerning NSF, April 1995
Testimony
to the House Science Committee concerning HPCC, October 1995
Vice
President Gore's speech at the ENIAC 50th
anniversary celebration, February 1996
Computing
Research Association declaration in Felten et al. v. RIAA et al.,
August 2001
President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee
University
of California at Berkeley invents Chinese cooking!
Nathan
Myhrvold joins
Ed
Lazowska and the
UW
CSE faculty on a trip down memory lane
CSE Holiday Party before
political correctness swept over us
Lazowska/Downs family home page
Directions
to my house
Recently-discovered
review of my now-college-age son's 6th grade poetry
Contact Information:
Ed Lazowska
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
419
Sieg Hall
(directions)
(206) 543-4755 work
(206) 543-2969 work FAX
(206) 789-0477 home
(206) 783-9137 home FAX
Ed Lazowska
