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- Students
First
Recognizing the importance of increased student support,
the University of Washington has announced Students First
as the final thrust of Campaign UW. Under Students First,
a 50% match is available for new undergraduate or graduate
scholarship endowments -- a commitment of $100,000 from a donor
secures an additional $50,000 from institutional funds.
- CSE's
Prasad Raghavendra wins "Best Paper" at STOC (May 2008)
UW CSE Ph.D. student Prasad Raghavendra has been named co-winner
of the Best Paper Award (and winner of the Best Student Paper
Award) at the
2008
ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
- A
conversation between Ed Lazowska and Vint Cerf at the Technology
Alliance annual luncheon (TVW) (May 2008)
A web archive of the TVW live broadcast of the interview.
- "Vint
Cerf: Internet pioneer, coffee drinker"
(Seattle PI) (May 2008)
A conversation between Vint Cerf and
CSE's Ed Lazowska highlights the
Technology Alliance annual luncheon.
IT World
here
- Puget Sound
Business Journal interviews UW CSE professor Oren
Etzioni (May 2008)
"Etzioni's spinout companies include airfare prediction website
Farecast,
just bought by Microsoft for a reported $115M."
- "Free
video game from UW: Wiggling and shaking for science" (Seattle
Times) (May 2008)
"A group at the University of Washington developed a clever new
way to get the public's help with the massive computing challenge
of researching cures for conditions such as HIV and Alzheimer's.
"They created a free, downloadable video game called
FoldIt!
that 'turns protein folding into a competitive sport.'
"I was skeptical, too, but after I downloaded it and played for awhile,
it became addictive. The game draws out any latent obsessive-compulsive
disorder you may have, encouraging you to wiggle, shake and pull
3D proteins to 'fix' their shapes."
Science Daily
here
UW News & Information
here
The Economist
here
Technology Review
here
Nature
here
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
here
Mother Jones
here
Popular Science
here
Discovery Channel
here
- "'CSI' sleuths out Microsoft's
latest technology" (USA Today) (April 2008)
Photosynth, a collaboration between UW CSE's computer graphics
group and Microsoft, has been featured in an episode of
CBS's hit crime drama CSI: NY.
This is a significant move uptown from the graphics group's
other recent television exposure: visualization of "drafting"
as part of NASCAR coverage.
Seattle Times article
here
Seattle PI article
here
Washington Times
here
Discover
here
- UW
CSE's Julie Letchner, Kate Everitt win
Google Anita Borg Scholarships
(April 2008)
UW CSE students Julie Letchner and Kate Everitt are
among 23 nationwide winners of 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarships.
Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships "to
honor the work of Dr. Anita Borg, a computer scientist who
dedicated her professional career to increasing the participation
of women and other under-represented minorities in the field
of technology."
- "UW
helped nurture computing ideas, Gates says" (Seattle Times)
(April 2008)
"As teenagers, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wandered the
University of Washington campus, trying to pilfer free
computer time. They let their minds wander to a future
when computing power would essentially be free.
"Gates, in the final stop of his last university-speaking
circuit as a full-time Microsoft employee, told students
and faculty at the UW on Friday about what they imagined
then and how much of what they dreamed of is becoming reality ...
"A common thread is the UW itself. Gates acknowledged
the important relationship he, Microsoft and the
Foundation have with the university.
It starts with his parents, who met there as students, he said.
He took an algebra class there, but the main benefit was finding
time to practice his skills on unused mainframe and minicomputers
around the campus - before the PC era he helped create ...
He said the UW has received more Gates Foundation grants than
any other university.
Microsoft, in a typical year, hires about 100 people from the
UW, making it the top source of talent for the company, Gates said ...
He also highlighted work at the UW on collaboration software and
an innovative photo-viewing technology that became a Microsoft
product called Photosynth."
- Bill
Gates at UW
(Seattle PI) (April 2008)
Bill Gates visits UW CSE and speaks to a packed house of students
in the final stop on his 2008 tour of six universities.
"With his father and two sisters watching from the front row,
Gates recounted for the overflow crowd the well-known story of
roaming the University of Washington campus as a boy with Paul
Allen, who would become the Microsoft co-founder, looking for
research computers that they could use in off-hours.
They were 'stealing computer time, and now I'm giving it back,'
Gates said, to laughter."
Seattle PI article (vs. blog)
here
- "Bill
Gates Unplugged: On Software, Innovation, and Giving Back"
(UWTV) (April 2008)
"University of Washington President Mark Emmert and
UW Computer Science & Engineering host Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates for the final stop of his
six-university tour, as Gates transitions from Microsoft
to the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation."
A UWTV web archive of Gates's UW speech and
Q&A session.
- "MobileASL"
project on KUOW/NPR
(MP3; starts at 43:40) (April 2008)
The Mobile ASL project is described on
KUOW/NPR. Choose "MP3" and scroll to 43:40.
See MobileASL project information
here
- "To
defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one"
(New Scientist) (April 2008)
"Beating the 'botnets' - armies of infected computers used to
attack websites - requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys,
say computer security researchers.
"A team at the University of Washington want to marshal swarms
of good computers to neutralise the bad ones. They say their
plan would be cheap to implement and could cope with botnets
of any size."
Read UW CSE
"Phalanx" paper
here
- UW's
"Vocal Joystick" named one of "25 leading-edge IT research
projects" by Network World (April 2008)
"University of Washington researchers have developed
software designed to let those who can't work a handheld
mouse use their voice instead to navigate the Web."
(See #17)
Project webpage here
- "UW
to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes"
(University Week) (April 2008)
"The UW will lead a multi-institutional group pushing the limits
of computers' ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the
behavior of complex systems. The project, involving seven U.S.
universities, has received a $6.25 million, 5-year grant from
the Department of Defense.
"'A complex monitoring system has far too many pieces of
information for any one person to look at,' said principal investigator
Pedro Domingos, a UW associate professor of computer science and
engineering. 'This award lets us do the research to develop a
system for the military to look at all the available information
that might be valuable and use it to predict behavior.'"
- "Microsoft
acquires Farecast - Seattle travel
cost predictor's price tag put at $115 million"
(Seattle PI) (April 2008)
"Microsoft is the mystery buyer of Farecast ...
"Madrona Venture Group's Matt McIlwain, the earliest venture
investor in Farecast, said the company entertained multiple offers ...
he said the deal is notable because it touches nearly every part of
the innovation economy in the Pacific Northwest.
"Farecast was started by University of Washington computer
scientist Oren Etzioni, initially bankrolled by Madrona,
built with people from local companies such as Alaska Airlines
and AdRelevance and, ultimately, acquired by Microsoft."
PI Microsoft Blog
here
PI Venture Blog
here
Seattle Times
here
Puget Sound Business Journal
here
- UW
CSE startup Farecast purchased by Martians (Seattle PI)
(April 2008)
"Farecast's sale
to an unknown buyer is the latest score for superstar
University of Washington computer scientist
Oren Etzioni,
who has watched several of his Internet companies gobbled
up at attractive valuations over the past 15 years.
"Those include comparison shopping service NetBot,
which was acquired by Excite in 1997, and MetaCrawler,
a search engine that is now part of InfoSpace."
Farecast, like many other UW CSE startups, included
Madrona
Venture Group and the
WRF Capital
as early investors.
- UW CSE's "Web Tripwires"
are the hit of NSDI (ars technica) (April 2008)
UW CSE's "Web Tripwires" paper was received enthusiastically
(and covered extensively) when presented at this week's NSDI
conference.
"Web Tripwires" measures the extent to which ISPs (or others)
modify web pages "in flight," e.g., to insert revenue-generating
advertisements.
Run the experiment
here
FAQ and research paper
here
Slashdot
here
ars technica article
here
PC World article
here
eCanadaNow article
here
- "'Black holes'
charted on the Internet" (MSNBC) (April 2008)
"Ethan Katz-Bassett, a graduate student in computer science
at the University of Washington, and his advisor, Arvind Krishnamurthy,
designed a program to continuously search for strange Internet gaps,
when a request to visit a Web site or an outgoing e-mail gets
lost along a pathway that was known to be working before."
Hubble project web
here
Parody from The Spoof!
here.
- "Illumita
is now Skytap, unveils first product" (Seattle PI)
(April 2008)
"The secretive Seattle virtualization startup Illumita
has changed its name to
Skytap
and unveiled details around its first product,
dubbed Skytap Virtual Lab ...
Started as a project by University of Washington computer
scientists, Skytap's goal with its first product is to create
an easy and cost-efficient manner by which companies can test
Web applications or software code in a virtual lab."
According to CSE professor and company co-founder Hank Levy,
the domain name Spinaltap was already taken.
See also
Seattle Times.
- "Hubble
maps the changing constellation of Internet 'black holes'"
(UW News & Information) (April 2008)
"You're trying to log on to a Web site and it's not working.
You try again and again. But persistence doesn't pay off.
The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
"The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes
could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a proportion
of computer traffic ends up being routed into information
black holes. These are situations where a path between two
computers does exist, but messages -- a request to visit a Web site,
an outgoing e-mail -- get lost along the way.
"A University of Washington system named
Hubble looks for these
black holes and maps them on a Web site, providing an ever-changing
constellation of the Internet's weak points.
The
Hubble map
lets visitors see a map of problems worldwide
or type in a specific Web page or network address to check its
status. The work is being presented next week in San Francisco at
the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
"'There's an assumption that if you have a working Internet
connection then you have access to the entire Internet,'
said Ethan Katz-Bassett, a UW doctoral student in computer
science and engineering. 'We found that's not the case.'"
- "Microsoft creates 'instant backing band' for singers" (New Scientist) (April 2008)
"Whether you're a frustrated songwriter or a shower-time crooner,
you may long to hear your lyrics put to music. New software from
Microsoft promises to provide just that: instant musical
accompaniment to singing.
"The software, called
MySong,
was developed by Dan Morris
and Sumit Basu at Microsoft's research lab in Redmond,
Washington, US, and
Ian Simon
at the University of Washington in Seattle."
- CSE's
Chad Klumb, Pavan Vaswani, and Ting-You Wang score clean sweep of UW
academic medals! (April 2008)
Each year, the University of Washington awards medals to the students
who had the strongest academic record in their class during the previous
year.
This year, in an unprecedented clean sweep, CSE students won all three
medals.
The Freshman Medalist (the top student in last year's class of 5500
freshmen) is Chad Klumb.
The Sophomore Medalist is Pavan Vaswani.
The Junior Medalist is Ting-You Wang.
Congratulations!
- CSE's
Julia Moore, Kathy Wei win Goldwater Scholarships (April 2008)
CSE undergraduates Julia Moore and Kathy Wei have been awarded
2008
Goldwater Scholarships.
Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates
majoring in engineering and the sciences.
- Six
win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (April 2008)
Three UW CSE graduate students and three recent UW CSE
bachelors alums have been named recipients of 2008 National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, the top
award for graduate students in engineering and the sciences.
UW CSE graduate student recipients are
Laura
Effinger-Dean,
Brian
DeRenzi, and
Jessica
Chang.
UW CSE bachelors alum recipients are
Annie Liu (now a graduate student at Caltech),
Gabriel Maganis (now applying to graduate schools),
and Kurtis Heimerl (now a graduate
student at UC Berkeley).
- CSE's
Alan Ritter, Tom Lin win National Defense
Science & Enginering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships (April 2008)
CSE graduate students
Alan Ritter
and
Tom Lin,
both working with Professor Oren Etzioni in the
Turing Center,
have received 2008 National Defense Science & Engineering
Graduate Fellowships.
- "UW
team researches a future filled with RFID chips"
(Seattle Times) (March 2008)
"Some University of Washington students, faculty and staff
are being tracked as they move about the computer-science
building, with details of where they've been, and with whom,
stored in a database.
"Professor Gaetano Borriello checks a computer to find
graduate student Evan Welbourne's last location: on the
fourth floor, outside room 452 at 10:38 a.m. Wednesday.
He opens another screen to reveal the building's floor
plan, and a blinking green dot representing Welbourne
shows him walking down the hall.
"If it seems a bit like Big Brother, that's the intention.
The project is meant to explore both positive and negative
aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor
people and objects remotely.
"'What we want to understand,' Borriello said, 'is what makes it
useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two.'"
- "Universities see spike in applications
from abroad" (Seattle Times) (March 2008)
"Junior Koshal Thirumalai, from India, is majoring in
computer engineering at the UW. 'It doesn't make sense
to go anywhere else if you are into computers,' he says."
- "Developing
Tools That Help Disabled Students Use the Web" (Chronicle
of Higher Education) (March 2008)
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews UW CSE professor
Richard Ladner.
"Disabled students face a host of challenges.
Mr. Ladner, a professor of computer science and engineering at
the University of Washington, has spent much of his career trying
to improve their opportunities for success in the discipline.
The Computing Research Association recently gave him its A. Nico
Habermann Award for advancing underrepresented groups."
- "Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security
Professional" (Wired) (March 2008)
Wired riffs on CSE professor Yoshi Kohno's undergraduate
computer security course. "Good engineering involves thinking
about how things can be made to work; the security mindset
involves thinking about how things can be made to fail ...
I've often speculated about how much of this is innate, and
how much is teachable ...
Which is why
CSE 484,
an undergraduate computer-security course
taught this quarter at the University of Washington, is so
interesting to watch. Professor
Tadayoshi Kohno
is trying to teach a security mindset ..."
- CSE's
Alexei Czeskis featured in College of Engineering "Campaign
Update" (pdf) (March 2008)
"Alexei Czeskis ... is one of the initial recipients of the new
Students First fellowships -- the Hacherl Endowed Graduate Fellowship
established by alumnus Don Hacherl ('85) ... Czeskis is now immersed in
computer security research under the mentorship of Assistant Professor
Yoshi Kohno, who last fall was recognized by Technology Review
as one ofthe nation's top 35 innovators under age 35."
- "Hacking
the Heart" (KOMO-TV News) (March 2008)
"A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators
is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that
could stop the devices from delivering a lifesaving shock ..."
- "Tracking
technology in the corridors of learning: An American university
is testing a system that allows participants to follow others'
movements around campus" (The Guardian) (March 2008)
"'Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this
technology and how can we protect people's privacy at the same time,'
says Magda Balazinska, the project leader and assistant professor of
computer science and engineering at UW. 'We want to get a handle
on the privacy issues that will crop up if these systems become a
reality.'"
- "Hackers
can attack heart devices" (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
(March 2008)
"A Seattle computer scientist who helped expose how hackers
can mess with electronic voting machines is part of a team
that has shown how new, wireless cardiac devices implanted
in thousands of heart patients also are vulnerable to
electronic attack ...
"[UW CSE's Yoshi] Kohno and others have shown they can
wirelessly extract personal medical information from an
implantable cardiac defibrillator as well as reprogram
or disrupt the device.
The team includes Harvard University cardiologist Dr. William
Maisel and Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
also a computer scientist."
Additional information
here
UW press release
here
New York Times
here
Wall Street Journal
here
Boston Globe
here
Science Daily
here
University Week
here
The Osgood File (CBS Radio)
here
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
here
- UW CSE /
UW Oceanography / Microsoft Research collaboration
featured at 2008 Microsoft Research TechFest (March 2008)
UW CSE, UW Oceanography, and Microsoft Research are collaborating
to create an "Ocean Scientists' Workbench" in connection with the
NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. This work was featured
prominently in press coverage of the 2008 Microsoft Research
TechFest.
UW oceanographers Debbie Kelley and Mark Stoermer appeared
in
ComputerWorld.
CSE's Keith Grochow and Microsoft's
Jared Jackson appear in
Microsoft's
own coverage of the event.
Other coverage in
Scientific
American,
AppScout,
and
CosmicLog.
- KUOW
(NPR) interviews CSE's Steve Gribble concerning spyware
(March 2008)
"Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna wants to better
protect computer users from spyware. He's called for legislation
to close loopholes in existing law. KUOW's Joshua McNichols has more."
- Technology
Review on Photosynth (March 2008)
"Photosynth was born from ... the marriage of Seadragon and
Photo Tourism, a Microsoft project intended to revolutionize
the way photo sets are packaged and displayed. Photo Tourism
had begun as the doctoral thesis of a zealous 26-year-old
University of Washington graduate student named Noah Snavely.
One of Snavely's advisors was Rick Szeliski, a computer-vision
researcher at Microsoft Research, the company's R&D arm ...
Working with Szeliski and a University of Washington professor
named Steve Seitz, Snavely was intent on coding a way forward
through a computationally forbidding challenge: how to get
photos to merge, on the basis of their similarities, into
a physical 3-D model that human eyes could recognize as part
of an authentic, real-world landscape."
- "CRA
A. Nico Habermann Award 2008 presented to Richard E. Ladner"
(February 2008)
This award honors the late A. Nico Habermann, who headed NSF's
Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate
and who was deeply committed to increasing the participation of
women and underrepresented minorities in computing research.
Ladner, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW,
is recognized for his lifelong, strong and persistent
advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities in the computing
community.
- DUB
dominates CHI (University Week) (February 2008)
"Members of the UW's Design:Use:Build (DUB)
Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design swept the
top conference in their field, which explores the interface
between human and machine. UW researchers nabbed three out
of seven Best Paper Awards selected from more than 700
submissions to this April's CHI 2008 meeting. Not only that - they
had 16 papers accepted, more than any other university."
- UW RFID research on KIRO TV 7
(February 2008)
Magda Balazinska and Evan Welbourne are interviewed in this
KIRO TV 7 report on RFID and privacy.
- "Academic
Cluster Computing Initiative" (YouTube video)
(February 2008)
A terrific Google video describing the Academic Cluster
Computing Initiative launched by Google, IBM, and NSF based
on work done by Google and UW Computer Science &
Engineering. UW CSE alumnus and Google engineer
Christophe Bisciglia is featured, along with various
UW CSE faculty and students.
- "'Dinosaur' computer stalls
Seattle schools' plans" (Seattle Times) (February 2008)
"An aging computer - so old that the University of Washington
has an early model on display as a museum piece - stands
etween the Seattle School Board and the changes it wants
to make in how the district assigns students to schools ...
"The VAX was first sold in 1979, and early models were about
as big as two refrigerators. Hank Levy, chairman of the UW's
computer-science and engineering department, was part of the team
that designed its operating system. The VAX on display in the
lobby of the department's Paul G. Allen Center was an early
model that Levy said at one time 'ran our entire department ...'
"'It was a great system for its day, but its day is long past,'
Levy said ...
Although it's hard to compare computing power of different systems,
he also said that, in rough terms, even the later-model VAXes
have only about 1/20th the power of an iPhone."
- Ten
years of CRA "Outstanding Undergraduate" awards (February 2008)
This spreadsheet from the University of Virginia tallies ten years
of Computing Research Association "Outstanding Undergraduate"
awards. In a nutshell:
- Total students recognized: UW #1, tied with CMU
- Number of winners: UW #1, tied with CMU, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Princeton
- Number of runners up: UW #1, tied with CMU and Harvard
- Number of finalists: UW #2, behind CMU and tied with Harvard
- Number of honorable mentions: UW #2, behind UVa
Go team!
See an excellent blog post by CMU Computer Science
Department chair Peter Lee
here.
- "Yoshi Kohno wins Sloan Research
Fellowship" (University Week) (February 2008)
"Yoshi Kohno, assistant professor of computer science & engineering,
has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, given each year to
outstanding young scientists ...
A total of 118 fellowships were awarded this year in seven fields:
chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology,
computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience ...
Kohno's research interests are in computer security,
electronic privacy and cryptography. Some of his past studies
have investigated security concerns related to electronic voting
machines and ways to ensure the security of transactions over
the Internet. Other research directions include security and
privacy of wireless networks, online anonymity and network
forensics. Kohno earned his doctorate at the University of
California, San Diego and has been at the UW since 2006."
Kohno is UW CSE's
15th
Sloan Research Fellowship recipient.
- "Seattle
has a distinct and remarkable tech ecosystem" (Crosscut)
(February 2008)
A short commentary by CSE professor Ed Lazowska.
"[Markoff]
simply observed that Seattle is exhibiting some
of the entrepreneurial success of Silicon Valley; he described
ome of the evidence and explored some of the reasons ...
We have managed to develop a tech ecosystem here - a feat that
has eluded many other regions of the nation.
It's distinctly our own, and it's pretty remarkable."
- "Balancing
technology with privacy" (KING-5 Television) (February 2008)
A KING-5 Television feature on the tradeoff between technology
and privacy for RFID.
Features interviews with UW CSE faculty members
Magda Balazinska
and
Gaetano Borriello,
as well as with on-leave faculty member
Chris
Diorio,
who is the founder, Chairman, and CTO of CSE-spinoff RFID
technology company
Impinj.
- "Wearable
Tracking Tags Test Privacy Boundaries at the U. of Washington"
(Chronicle of Higher Education) (pdf) (February 2008)
"It's 2 a.m. Do you know where Evan Welbourne is? ...
"While RFID isn't a household word, the technology behind
it has long been a part of the lives of just about every American ...
"Now, because the tags can emit individual codes, companies
are using them to track specific inventory items, credit cards,
and ID badges. Conceivably, sensors could follow people
throughout their daily lives.
"But who should track whom? Where, when, and how? And what
effect will this constant shadowing have on the trackers and
the trackees?
"To get answers, the University of Washington developed the
RFID Ecosystem. It is an attempt to 'create a future world
where RFID's are everywhere,' says Gaetano Borriello, a
professor of computer science. At the moment, 140 antennas
that pick up signals and 35 RFID readers that interpret data
are monitoring five of the six floors in the university's
Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering."
A description of UW CSE's
RFID Ecosystem
project.
- "Social
Networks Move Into Meatspace with 'RFID Ecosystem'"
(Wired Science) (February 2008)
"In the past, I've written about natural and built environmental
sensors, and wondered whether people should be included among the
vital signs of an urban ecosystem. But I've skirted most of the
privacy issues because I don't have great answers for you, so
I'm happy to see that these researchers, led by Magda Balazinska,
are trying to come up with good tech or policy solutions, as
they put it, 'before such systems become commonplace.'"
- "Future
of social networking explored in UW's computer science building"
(UW News & Information Services) (February 2008)
"If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources.
But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much
help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some
call the 'Internet of things,' in which objects and people are connected
through a virtual network.
"To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project
involving dozens of volunteers in the University of Washington's
computer science building provides the next step in social networking ..."
A description of UW CSE's
RFID Ecosystem
project.
- "Seattle
Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley" (New York Times)
(February 2008)
"Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley.
This one is actually doing it.
"Stroll through the hip Fremont District and you will sense
the Valley vibe. Google recently opened a research lab here,
its second in Microsoft's backyard.
Technology start-ups are sprouting up amid quirky neighborhood
landmarks like a bronze statue of Lenin and the Fremont Troll,
the giant concrete creature lurking beneath the George
Washington Memorial Bridge.
"More young companies are moving in downtown, near the art
galleries and bookstores around Pioneer Square.
Still others are spreading into the surrounding suburbs.
"'The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and
growing rapidly,' said Oren Etzioni, an artificial-intelligence
expert at the University of Washington and a serial technology
entrepreneur.
"The University of Washington, in fact, is one of the big draws.
It is fostering the entrepreneurial climate here the way
Stanford University does in Silicon Valley."
- "Local
boy genius makes good" (Tacoma News Tribune) (January 2008)
"Google 'Christophe Bisciglia.' You'll learn how
the 27-year-old Google wunderkind, who grew up in Gig Harbor,
made the cover of Business Week magazine last month for a
breakthrough technological innovation.
"Bisciglia devised a way to re-create for the academic
community a computational platform similar to the one used
by Google engineers to manage a world's worth of data and
provide eye-blink-fast Internet searches.
Bisciglia's approach started with a bank of interconnected,
data-packed computers installed at the University of Washington.
"Your Google search also will pull up a newspaper story
describing how Bisciglia hacked into the computer network of
a Port Orchard Internet service provider in 1999, sent
disparaging e-mails about the company to all its customers,
and uploaded a pornographic photo - a close-up of a man's
bare rear end - to the company's Web site ..."
- "CU
sells campus bathroom's naming rights for $25K"
(Boulder Daily Camera) (January 2008)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus John Bennett, Director of the
University of Colorado's Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society
(ATLAS) Institute, sells naming rights to a bathroom in the ATLAS
building for $25K.
Why didn't we think of that???
Don't miss
the
video!
- "Using
Robots To Help Humans" (KUOW/NPR) (audio file) (January 2008)
"The human hand is capable of more delicate movement than
comparable organs of any other animal. It can wield a tool or
weapon as easily as it can make a subtle gesture. So when a human
loses her hand, she's lost a remarkable implement.
Yoky Matsuoka
wants to ensure a loss like that isn't permanent. She runs the
Neurobiotics
Lab at the University of Washington. That's where she
and her staff build robots that function like hands and other human
body parts. Jeannie Yandel takes a tour of the lab."
- "10
fascinating Googlers" (Fortune) (January 2008)
"Feeling burnt out after four years building search algorithms
for Google software projects, Bisciglia, 27, floated an idea
to CEO Eric Schmidt about starting a college course on
large-scale computing ...
Bisciglia launched a course at Washington, his alma mater ...
Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Tsinghua University in Beijing
have picked up on the idea, offering similar classes to
their students, and Bisciglia has since worked out
comparable deals with Berkeley and Stanford ..."
- "SWsoft
Snags Microsoft Legend for Senior Technical Advisor Role"
(InfoWorld) (January 2008)
"Virtualization software company SWsoft announced on Wednesday
that a former Microsoft architect and pioneer software developer
Mark Zbikowski has joined the company as a senior technical
advisor ...
With the addition of this legend and 25 year Microsoft veteran to
the team, SWsoft is truly providing themselves with a huge feather
in their cap. Zbikowski previously led Microsoft's efforts
in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo and Windows NT. Zbikowski designed the
DOS executable file format, and he was one of the main
architects and developers of the Windows file system, NTFS.
Since his retirement from Microsoft in 2006, Zbikowski has been
a lecturer [in Computer Science & Engineering]
at the University of Washington."
- "Google
upstart a hit" (The Peninsula Gateway) (January 2008)
"It's no surprise that former Gig Harbor resident [and UW CSE
alumnus] Christophe Bisciglia is leading one of the newest and
biggest projects at Internet giant Google ...
he's always been the enterprising sort."
- Google
Seattle grand opening (January 2008)
January 15th marked the official opening of
Google
Seattle.
The office, located in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood
("The
Center of the Universe") adjacent to the University
of Washington, is led by UW CSE's Brian Bershad.
"Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and
research, provided some of the reasons why Google wanted
to expand in Seattle, which now represents the third largest
U.S. office for Google behind Mountain View and New York.
"'Seattle is an excellent example of the kind of place that
makes sense for us to build. It has fantastic technologists.
It has a world class research university here.
It has got incredibly talented engineers.
It has a great entrepreneurial culture and spirit.
It's got a thriving venture community.
It's got a history of great innovations.
It has a very supportive government and organization here
that actually cares about bringing business in and making
businesses successful.
And for all of those reasons we are extremely happy to be here.'
"Later, he even mentioned Seattle's cost of living and its
'family-friendly' environment.
"'This is a very attractive place to live and for people to
bring families. ... We try to give (people) the option of
where they want to live and many of them actually choose the
Seattle area. It is smaller. It is a friendly area. It is very
family-friendly.
The cost of living here is less than it is in Mountain
View, and other things.'"
"Inside
look at Google Seattle: Puppies, lava lamps, etc." (Seattle PI)
"Google
open house to draw crowds" (Seattle PI)
"The
dogs of Google Seattle" (Seattle PI)
"Perks
make Google office hardly feel like work" (Seattle PI)
"Google
touts Fremont Engineering office, links to UW" (Seattle Times)
"Google
rave in Fremont draws a crowd of techies" (Seattle Times)
"Google
shows off new Seattle digs" (InfoWorld)
- "Stefan Saroiu,
Phisher King" (January 2008)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Saroiu, a faculty member in
computer science at the University of Toronto, is one of
three young faculty members featured on
the University of Toronto home page.
"We all know now that the 20th century's most influential
innovation - electronic communications by way of your computer - has
given rise to a whole new breed of criminals.
They are the computer hackers who find nefarious ways to use
information technology to rob you.
Thankfully,computer scientists like Stefan Saroiu
are preparing to do battle with these IT pickpockets."
Click the home page image to read the article, or go directly
here.
- "Google
and the Wisdom of Clouds" (Business Week)
(December 2007)
UW CSE alumnus Christophe Bisciglia is profiled in a
Business Week cover story.
"What recruits needed, Bisciglia eventually decided, was
advanced training. So one autumn day a year ago, when he ran
into Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt between meetings, he floated
an idea. He would use his 20% time, the allotment Googlers
have for independent projects, to launch a course. It
would introduce students at his alma mater, the University
of Washington, to programming at the scale of a cloud.
Call it Google 101. Schmidt liked the plan. Over the following
months, Bisciglia's Google 101 would evolve and grow. It
would eventually lead to an ambitious partnership with IBM,
announced in October, to plug universities around the world
into Google-like computing clouds ...
"How was Bisciglia going to give students access to this
machine? The easiest option would have been to plug his
class directly into the Google computer. But the company
wasn't about to let students loose in a machine loaded
with proprietary software, brimming with personal data,
and running a $10.6 billion business. So Bisciglia shopped
for an affordable cluster of 40 computers. He placed the
order, then set about figuring out how to pay for the servers.
While the vendor was wiring the computers together, Bisciglia
alerted a couple of Google managers that a bill was coming.
Then he 'kind of sent the expense report up the chain, and no
one said no.' ... ("If you're interested in someone who
strictly follows the rules, Christophe's not your guy,' says
Lazowska."
MSNBC
Seattle Times
Don't miss the
BusinessWeek / CHINA cover!
- "Recap
of what was cool, not so cool in tech world in 2007"
(Seattle Times) (December 2007)
"With New Year's Eve a week away, our thoughts turn to
bubbles and the year that was ...
We asked a panel of technology party guests to review a list
of 25 events, trends and products that made the scene in 2007
and rate them on a scale of 'forget about it' (1) to 'game-changer' (5) ..."
UW CSE's Ed Lazowska is quoted throughout.
- "Sam
Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies"
(Stanford News Service) (December 2007 / January 2008)
Samuel Karlin, a Stanford professor emeritus of mathematics and
father of UW CSE professor Anna Karlin, died December 18 at
Stanford Hospital. He was 83.
According to UW CSE professor Martin Tompa: "Karlin
was one of the pioneers who applied mathematics and
statistical models to problems in biological sequence analysis.
He worked in this field for the last 20 years or so. He wrote
many important papers, but probably the most influential was a
series of papers with Stephen Altschul in the early 1990s laying
out the statistical foundation for BLAST, the most important piece
of software in computational biology. Their work is known as the
Karlin-Altschul Theory and is taught in many computational biology
courses."
Karlin was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the National
Medal of Science in 1989. He was the author of 10 books and more
than 450 articles.
Earlier article from Stanford News Service
here.
- CSE
alums Rob Short, Gail Murphy win 2008 UW College of Engineering
Diamond Awards (December 2007)
Each year, the University of Washington College of Engineering
recognizes a small number of alumni with Diamond Awards. These
alumni are chosen by a committee of their peers to be recognized
for their contributions as engineers of excellence.
The winner of the 2008 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial
Excellence is 1978 UW CSE M.S. alumnus
Rob
Short, recently retired as Corporate Vice President for
Windows Core Technology at Microsoft.
The winner of the 2008 Early Career Diamond Award is 1996 UW CSE
Ph.D. alumna
Gail
Murphy, now a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
British Columbia.
- The
University of Washington's economic impact (Columns)
(December 2007)
Columns, the UW alumni magazine, explores the economic
impact of the University of Washington on the region.
"'Eight of the companies we've invested in have come from the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering,' said Tom Alberg,
managing director of Madrona Investment Group. When he asked local
software companies to help fund the deparment's new building, even
non-Huskies relized how much they benefited by hiring UW
graduates. 'To succeed, technology companies need three
things - money, entrepreneurs and innovative ideas - and
UW is one of the main sources of innovative ideas.'" [page 4]
- Four
UW CSE chairs lay it on the line (December 2007)
Jean-Loup Baer (1988-1993), Ed Lazowska (1993-2001),
David Notkin (2001-2006), and Hank Levy (2006-present).
- "New
endeavors aim to build a better Internet" (MSNBC)
(December 2007)
MSNBC profiles the work of UW CSE professor Oren
Etzioni.
"University of Washington computer scientist and search engine
pioneer Oren Etzioni is hoping to make today's 'dumb'
computers far more consumer-friendly. As part of a larger
push in the field, his latest projects are providing a
sneak preview of how online applications might look in a
more intuitive Web 3.0 of the not-so-distant future."
- "What
Do Low U.S. Math And Science Scores Mean?" (Technology
Daily) (December 2007)
"University of Washington Computer Science Professor Ed Lazowska,
former co-chair of the now-defunct President's Information Technology
Advisory Committee, said the report 'once again clearly indicates
the performance of U.S. secondary students in science and mathematics
lags that of our competitor nations.'
He said the results should effectively counter a widely publicized
October Urban Institute report that claimed the United States, contrary
to other recent reports, is not falling behind in science and math
education.
Lazowska acknowledged performance gaps among segments of the U.S.
student population. While 'the best-prepared students in America
are equal to the best in the world,' he said, 'a greater and
greater proportion of America's students are not being prepared
at this level and are not being equipped for success.'"
- Oren
Etzioni on spam (Seattle Times) (December 2007)
"Oren Etzioni, a UW computer science professor, says ...
there are no obvious legal cures for spam. Just as 'arresting
a drug kingpin won't do much about drug use.'"
- Michael
Cohen, Ed Felten named ACM Fellows (December 2007)
UW CSE Affiliate Professor Michael Cohen (a researcher at
Microsoft Research) and
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten (a professor at Princeton University)
were among 38 eminent computer scientists named 2007 ACM
Fellows. Congratulations to Michael and Ed!
- Dana
Wen, David Tepper, and Sam Whittle recognized by CRA (December 2007)
UW CSE undergraduates Dana Wen, David Tepper, and Sam Whittle were
among 89 students from across the country recognized in the 2008
Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award
competition.
- "Software
that Learns from Users" (Technology Review) (November 2007)
"The thing that makes computers a huge pain for everybody, says
Pedro Domingos, an associate professor of computer science at the
University of Washington, is that you have to explain to them every
little detail of what they need to do. 'It's really annoying,'
Domingos jokes. 'They're stupid.'
"That's why Domingos is taking part in CALO, a massive, four-year-old
artificial-intelligence project to help computers understand the
intentions of their human users. Funded by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and coordinated by SRI International,
based in Menlo Park, CA, the project brings together researchers
from 25 universities and corporations, in many areas of
artificial intelligence, including machine learning,
natural-language processing, and Semantic Web technologies.
Each group works on pieces of CALO, which stands for
'cognitive assistant that learns and organizes ....'
"'It's insanely ambitious,' Domingos says. 'But if CALO succeeds,
it'll be quite a revolution. Even if it doesn't, so much good
research is happening under it that it will still have been
worthwhile.'"
- NCWIT
Award for Aspirations in Computing (November 2007)
"The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing recognizes
young women at the high-school level for their computing-related
achievements and interests ...
"The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing is given out
twice per year to nominees from the local metropolitan areas
where NCWIT holds its bi-annual meetings. Nominations are
made in conjunction with local school educators and
administrators, and nominees are selected for their
demonstrated, outstanding aptitude and interest in
information technology/computing; solid leadership ability;
good academic history; and plans for post-secondary education ..."
On November 19, NCWIT CEO and co-founder Lucy Sanders and
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska presented the NCWIT
Award for Aspirations in Computing to
eight wonderful winners from the Puget Sound region:
Lenda Nguyen, Melinda Mudd, Nicole Mina Askarian, Kayleigha Holten,
Kaitlin McKinnon, Amy Li, Manpreet Kaur, and
Nicole Torcolini.
See a video featuring the award recipients
here.
- "Forging
a Remarkable Future: Computer Scientists Hold the Key to
Astounding Advances in the Coming Decades" (UWTV) (November 2007)
"Ed Lazowska has his gaze firmly focused on the future. He speaks
not in terms of the possibilities, but the realities of the coming
years. Personalized medicine based on genome sequencing. Web
browsers in your brain. Quantum computers. Digital prosthetics.
'This stuff is really cool!'
Lazowska foresees amazing changes in the coming years,
and believes computer science is the ultimate path to
this progress."
- "UW senior wins national coding competition"
(UW Daily) (November 2007)
"Computer Science senior Michael Skinner placed first in his
division of the national TopCoder Collegiate Competition in
Orlando, Fla., Nov. 2 ...
"Stuart Reges, a senior lecturer in the computer science department,
said Skinner's win is the most significant accomplishment in the
area of programming contests at the UW in the past 10 years.
'I hope that he can help to bring greater visibility to our
undergraduate program,' Reges said. 'As a top-10 department,
our research and graduate programs are well known internationally.
But not all UW undergraduates seem to be aware that they have a
chance to get a first-class computer science education that is
comparable to what undergraduates get at Stanford, Berkeley and
other top schools. Hopefully Michael's success can help to
change that.'"
- "Priming
the Pipeline for Women in Computing" (PressMediaWire)
(November 2007)
"'In computer science, we're engineering systems for the whole
population,' says professor Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington. 'Every one of us brings our own
personal baggage to any system we design. If all computers
are designed by fully-able 40-year-old white males, they'll
be built to be used by fully-able 40-year-old white males.'
It's an argument that should resonate widely as enlightened
self-interest if nothing else, Lazowska says. 'A diverse
workforce [makes for] a better engineered artifact.'"
- "Google
Seattle lands UW ccmputer science professors" (Seattle PI)
(November 2007)
"Two University of Washington computer science professors are
joining Google's new development office in Seattle's Fremont
neighborhood, strengthening the search giant's ties to the
largest research institution in the state ...
"Brian Bershad and Craig Chambers - who together spent more than
30 years at the UW - will bring 'firepower' to the company, said
Google vice president of engineering Shiva Shivakumar, who is
based in the company's Kirkland office.
"'These two are spectacular,' said Shivakumar. 'They have done
some incredibly big things over the last few years. It is a huge deal.' ...
"Losing two talented professors to Google could be viewed as a
blow to the UW computer science department. But Ed Lazowska,
the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in the department, doesn't
see it that way.
"'On one hand, it is not like we are delighted to see these
guys go. But each of them was ready for a change. And I think
this is going to wind up being a real plus - a plus for us, a
plus for our students, a plus for collaboration, a plus
for Google,' said Lazowska, who noted that close to 150 UW
computer science students have been hired by Google over the
years. 'Craig and Brian are guys who have enormous respect
among the faculty and students. I think there are going to
be a bunch of really exciting projects going on up here.'"
See also
here.
- "CSE to launch new five-year
degree program" (UW Daily) (November 2007)
"Technologically minded students will soon have a new
degree program to add to their choices thanks to the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE),
if chair Hank Levy has his way.
The program received approval for funding for an initial
run of 10 students beginning next fall."
- CSE's
Michael Skinner is TopCoder Marathon Champion!
(Seattle Times) (November 2007)
CSE senior Michael Skinner has won the Marathon
competition of the
2007 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.
"University of Washington computer whiz Michael Skinner
scored an upset victory Friday by winning his division
of an international contest aimed at finding out who can
write the most effective computer programs ...
Skinner, 22, a senior, was one of just two Americans among
a field of 120 students gathered in Florida for the 2007
TopCoder Collegiate Challenge ...
Skinner, a computer-science major better known among
peers by his online handle 'Paranoia,' won $15,000 and
bragging rights for the victory."
The TopCoder Collegiate Challenge is an annual competition
for collegiate programmers from around the world. There are
four independent contests: Algorithm, Component,
Marathon, and Studio.
The finals were held at Walt Disney World in
Orlando FL from October 30 - November 2.
The first three rounds of the Marathon competition
were held online in August and September. 300 competitors
advanced from the first round to the second; 100 from the
second to the third; and 8 from the third to the Orlando finals.
Across all four contests, 120 collegiate programmers
qualified for the Orlando
finals. Michael was one of only two finalists from the
United States. In winning the Marathon finals, he bested
competitors from France, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden,
the United Kingdom, Thailand, and the Netherlands.
TopCoder announcement
here
Seattle Times article from before the finals
here
- "Vacation
photos create 3D models of world landmarks" (UW News and
Information) (November 2007)
"More than 10 million members of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr
snap pictures of their surroundings and then post those photos on
the Internet. One group at the University of Washington is doing
the reverse - downloading thousands of photos from Flickr and
using them to recreate the original scenes."
- "Whose mouse is mightiest? UW code whiz hopes it's his"
(Seattle Times) (October 2007)
"Creating fast and flawless computer programs may not sound
like a competitive spectator sport. But when University of
Washington senior Michael Skinner takes on other top college
computer programmers from around the world in Florida today,
there will be $260,000 total prize money at stake, and
observers watching competitors' every keystroke on large plasma
screens.
"Skinner, 22 ... carries national pride on his back. He's
one of only two Americans to make the final 120 competitors
in the 2007 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge."
- "Field Notes
from UW Computer Science & Engineering Intern Fair"
(blist) (October 2007)
As I blogged previously, Justin, Matt & I from
blist
attended the University of Washington Computer Science &
Engineering department's annual career day today. It
was a terrific event that far exceeded my expectations.
Here are some of my random thoughts ..."
- "UW: New computer science programs, lab"
(Seattle Times) (October 2007)
"Growth and new programs are happening at the University of
Washington's Computer Science & Engineering Department,
Chairman Hank Levy said this morning at the annual 'industrial
affiliates' meeting with tech companies, investors and school
supporters ...
"There for the update, and research presentations by students,
were representatives of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Cray,
Sony, Madrona Venture Group, Amazon.com, DreamBox Learning and
other companies ...
"Another initiative Levy outlined is already under way: a new
'Experimental Computer Engineering Lab' created as a partnership
of the computer science and electrical engineering departments.
"Six new faculty positions, three from each side, are allocated
to the effort, including two now being filled.
"Computer science is also taking more Ph.D. students and overall,
Levy's planning for '25 percent growth across the board'
in the department."
Other coverage
here.
- Ph.D.
alumnus Greg Barnes wins Emerald City Search
(Seattle Times) (October 2007)
"Greg Barnes was supposed to be home sick this week. Instead,
he was deciphering clues, searching online about obscure
Japanese history, and prowling Harbor Island, hoping to find
a hidden medallion - the prize of this year's citywide
treasure hunt, Emerald City Search.
"On Wednesday morning, the 42-year-old found the blue-and-white
ceramic medallion wrapped in plastic under a wooden bench in
Seacrest Park in West Seattle. He won $2,500 in cash and prizes.
"The daily clues in the treasure hunt that began Oct. 17
were inspired by the Seattle Art Museum's latest exhibit,
'Japan Envisions the West,' but that didn't help Barnes out much.
"'My wife and I are both computer scientists,' Barnes says with
a laugh, 'so Japanese history's not really our thing.'"
- "Linus
Chou dives headfirst into making UW team" (Seattle PI)
(October 2007)
"With their football team mired in a five-game losing streak,
Huskies fans may be looking for a beam of light, something
tangible to make them smile.
"It can be found on special teams: No. 51, Linus Chou.
"Perhaps the most unlikely of football players, Chou, a Chinese-American,
is a computer science major. He scored 1500 on his SAT. He just
interviewed for an internship at Microsoft.
"How the Lakeside School product went from academia to special teams,
managing to balance both successfully, is one of the Huskies' best
feel-good stories of the season."
- CSE
Ph.D. alum Rachel Pottinger wins first annual Denice Denton
Emerging Leader Award (October 2007)
The
Denice
Denton Emerging Leader Award is given annually
by the
Anita Borg Institute
to an individual under the
age of 35 who has demonstrated a significant leadership
capability and positive impact of the lives of women
through technology.
The award is named in honor of the late Denice Denton,
formerly Dean of Engineering at the University of Washington.
It's thus particularly wonderful that the inaugural
recipient of the Denton Award is UW CSE alumna
Rachel
Pottinger, now a faculty member at the University of
British Columbia. The award was presented at the
Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Congratulations Rachel!
Grace Hopper Conference award announcement
here.
- CSE's Yoky Matsuoka named to
Popular Science's "6th Annual Brilliant Ten" (October 2007)
"We take about six months to create our annual list of the most
impressive young scientists in the U.S., six months of quizzing
academic department heads, professional organizations and journal
editors about the most creative and important research in the
country and the individuals making it happen ...
"So when we say that these 10 are the most creative, the most
groundbreaking, the most brilliant, just what does it mean?
It means they have the gall to ask the big questions, even if
those happen to be outside the traditional areas of inquiry ...
"Yoky Matsuoka grew up dreaming of becoming a top-ranked
tennis pro, but she wasn't your average jock. She spent a
lot of on-court time pondering how her brain was controlling
her hand, allowing her to smoothly swing her racket at just
the right time and angle.
More than a decade and several mechanical hands later,
Matsuoka is still chasing the same question.
But now she's pursuing it by trying to build the ultimate
prosthetic - a fully functional replica of the human hand,
controlled directly by the brain."
Introduction to the sequence of profiles
here
UW CSE Neurobotics Laboratory
here
- CSE Ph.D. alum Gun Sirer also named to
Popular Science's "6th Annual Brilliant Ten"
(October 2007)
"In 2004, Emin Gun Sirer figured out how to hijack the FBI's
Web site. The problem wasn't with the Feds; it was with the
structure of the Internet itself. Anytime you type an address
like 'www.fbi.gov' into your browser, your request feeds
through several servers that act as the phone booths of
the Internet. Sirer realized that many of these
directories were insecure and that a hacker could easily
reroute all traffic meant for the FBI to a malicious
doppelgdnger site ...
"His modest solution? Reorganize the entire Internet. Sirer
created a scheme that eliminates the need for vulnerable
central servers by distributing information among thousands
of smaller computers. The strategy now helps safeguard Web
sites through the PlanetLab worldwide academic network
and could someday protect the Web as a whole."
Gun is now a faculty member at Cornell University.
- "Google,
IBM expand program to teach 'Internet-scale' computing"
(Seattle PI) (October 2007)
"Google and IBM, expanding an effort that began at the
University of Washington, will launch an initiative to
help computer science students and researchers learn a
form of programming increasingly significant in the Internet age.
"'It was clear to us that this is something that we and everybody
else needed to be offering our students,' said Ed Lazowska, a UW
computer science professor.
'Not so that they could go work for Google, although that's great,
but because this is a new approach to solving a new set of problems
in this data-rich world.'"
Google/IBM press release
here
UW press release
here
San Jose Mercury
here
Google Blog post by Christophe Bisciglia
here
Wall Street Journal
here
CIO Today
here
Information Week
here
Seattle Times
here
c|net
here
New York Times
here.
- "The scientific dark age of George Bush"
(Crosscut) (October 2007)
"University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska,
a onetime Bush appointee, says scientific research and education
are sputtering in the 'dark time' of the Bush years. He also says
Washington state's higher ed system is failing the next generation."
- CSE's
Richard Ladner appointed trustee at Gallaudet University
(October 2007)
Gallaudet University in Washington DC,
the world leader in liberal education and
career development for deaf and hard-of-hearing
undergraduate students, has announced the appointment
of six new members to its Board of Trustees, including
CSE professor Richard Ladner.
Ladner's contributions to the deaf and hard-of-hearing
earned him the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence
in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
His mother, father, and sister are Gallaudet alumni,
and he spent a sabbatical year there in 1985-86.
- "Opening
New Possibilities for Deaf Students in Computer Science" (National
Science Foundation) (October 2007)
The National Science Foundation features CSE professor Richard
Ladner's 9-week Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard
of Hearing in Computing.
- V2Green
in the PI (October 2007)
"David Kaplan spent 12 years at Microsoft Corp. helping to
build SQL Server into a billion-dollar business. Now, after
a respite from the software industry, he is testing his
luck with electric cars.
The 54-year-old entrepreneur is at the wheel of a Seattle
startup by the name of V2Green, which is developing
software and hardware so utilities can better manage
power flows to plug-in vehicles."
V2Green involves numerous CSE alums including
Dave Kaplan and Seth Bridges.
- Ph.D. alum
Doug Zongker featured at Ig Nobel awards ceremony (October 2007)
"This year's Ig Nobel program included a two-minute speech by
keynote speaker Doug Zongker consisting only of the word 'chicken.'"
The original YouTube video of Doug's presentation is
here.
- "UW
researchers put more 'reality' into 'virtual reality'"
(KOMO TV) (October 2007)
KOMO TV interviews CSE's Zoran Popovic and Adrien Treuille:
"Researchers at the University of Washington have a come up
with a new formula for simulating fluids like fires and smoke.
The new formula is changing the world of virtual reality by
improving the technology and making it more accessible at the same time."
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