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In 1999....
- "New UW
class aims to help students become fluent in basic computer usage"
(December 1999)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles UW CSE Professor
Larry Snyder's course "Fluency with Information Technology."
Snyder recently chaired the
National Research Council committee that defined "FITness."
The
course
web includes digital video lecture materials and the slides from a
Saturday Seminar presentation describing the FITness concept.
- KCPQ
features UW CSE Chair Ed Lazowska on "Northwest Week" (December 1999)
A half hour discussion of information technology research
and education issues, with UW CSE Chair Ed Lazowska and "Northwest Week"
host C.R. Douglas.
(28:35, in
Windows
Media Player format.)
- UW,
Microsoft, NCSA, and DARPA/NTON set new Internet speed
records (November 1999)
At SC99, UW, Microsoft, NCSA, DARPA/NTON, and other
partners demonstrated a sustained 2.4gbps, from the
Microsoft and UW campuses, through the UW-led
Pacific Northwest GigaPoP, down to Portland
over the DARPA NTON testbed, and
then to the Oregon Convention Center floor.
UW Computing & Communications worked with
NTON and its partners to create the network
infrastructure.
Microsoft and NCSA showed 1.2gbps between two
desktop PCs running Windows 2000.
UW and Sony showed 5 concurrent 200+mpbs HDTV-over-IP
streams.
All streams ran concurrently, achieving an aggregate 2.4gbps
sustained, through "semi-production" infrastructure.
This demonstration heralds true "gigabit-to-the-desktop"
networking.
- Stanford,
UW students sweep ACM Pacific Northwest Regional Programming Contest
(November 1999)
The two teams from Stanford and the two teams from UW captured
the top four positions in the 61-team 1999 ACM Pacific Northwest
Regional Programming Contest.
UW's "Purple" team and Stanford's cleverly-named "Stanford 1" team
will represent the region in the World Finals.
Members of the UW Purple team were Brett Allen, Justin Huff, and
Michael Vargas.
Members of the UW Gold team were Kevin Zatloukal,
Ryan Sturgell, and Vassili Sukharev.
- "Build the Future" --
Windows Media Player format /
Real Media format
(October 1999)
An overview of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
featuring student projects and interviews with regional technology
and education leaders.
UW CSE is embarking on an ambitious fund-raising effort to construct
a new facility, as the University of Washington's top capital
priority. (13:10; 50kbps version
here.)
- Seattle
Post-Intelligencer feature on digital libraries (October 1999)
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer article on digital libraries features
UW CSE professors Brian Curless, Oren Etzioni, and Dan Weld.
- Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation endows two chairs in CSE (October 1999)
The University of Washington will receive $3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish two endowed chairs in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
"The Bill and Melinda Gates Chairs in Computer Science will dramatically enhance our ability to recruit and retain distinguished faculty," says Professor Ed
Lazowska, head of the department. "We're grateful to Bill and Melinda Gates, and to the Foundation, for this important investment in our future."
(Columns (UW Alumni Magazine) article
here.)
- UW
CSE sophomore Jennifer Lee Zeman featured in
University Week (October 1999)
Jennifer is conducting undergraduate research under the
NASA Space Grant Program, with UW CSE faculty member
Ira Kalet.
- "Media
Metrix to Acquire AdRelevance" (October 1999)
AdRelevance,
co-founded by UW CSE Professor Dan Weld,
specializes in the automated retrieval and
delivery of online advertising data.
- Ford
donates $1.8M for embedded systems, data mining (October 1999)
Ford Motor Company has donated $3.85M to the University of Washington.
$1.5M of this will support educational programs in embedded systems,
joint between CSE and EE. $0.3M will support educational programs
in data mining, joint between CSE, Atmospheric Sciences, and Statistics.
- "Tech
fluency for the nontechy" (September 1999)
University Week article regarding UW CSE Professor Larry
Snyder's "Information Technology Fluency" course, an outgrowth
of Snyder's leadership of a
National
Research Council study of the issue.
- "XML
marks the spot at Nimble.com" (September 1999)
The Eastside Journal reports on
the launching of Nimble.com, a data integration startup
founded by UW CSE faculty members Alon Levy and Dan Weld.
- TechNet/CRA Press Conference on Federal Support for Computing Research (September
1999)
TechWeb
Chronicle
of Higher Education
"We're
in this together: The University of Washington's partnership with
public schools" (August 1999) Seattle Times op-ed piece by UW President Richard L. McCormick.
- "Wireless
in Seattle" (August 1999)
Wired article on MobiCom 99 discusses UW CSE's
Portolano
"invisible computing" project.
- "Web
advertisers can track the competition" (August 1999)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles AdRelevance, founded
by UW CSE Professor Dan Weld.
"A new Internet search tool, developed by the same
folks who brought the world the Netbot comparison
shopping service and the MetaCrawler Internet search
engine, will be unveiled today by Seattle start-up AdRelevance ...
Developed by University of Washington computer
science professor Dan Weld and a team of former
Netbot programmers, the ad-tracking technology mines the
Internet 24 hours a day ..."
- "A
World of Sensors" (August 1999)
ABCNews.com features the UW/Microsoft
Summer Research Institute on "Invisible Computing."
This first of two 1999 UW/Microsoft Summer Research Institutes
contemplates a world in
which your clock, your refrigerator, and your telephone can cooperate
to order pizza behind your back.
- UW/Microsoft
Summer Research Institute on "Invisible Computing" also featured in
Seattle PI (July 1999)
- CSE
wins inaugural Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence (June 1999)
The Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence is a
department-level distinguished teaching award, created
this year through the vision and generosity of Jeff and
Susan Brotman.
Computer Science & Engineering
is one of three recipients of the inaugural Brotman
Award, as reported in this University Week article.
See also the
"Reflective
Statement" prepared after we became a finalist for
the award.
- "Digital
David" (May 1999)
Don Porter from KING-5 News interviews UW CSE faculty member Brian Curless
(2:06, in
Windows
Media Player format).
- Alon
Levy receives 1999 Sloan Research Fellowship
UW CSE Assistant Professor Alon Levy is one of ten North American
computer scientists selected to receive prestigious 1999 Sloan Research
Fellowships.
- "State of the art technology" (May 1999)
UW Daily article concerning Professor Brian Curless's participation in the Digital Michelangelo project in Florence, Italy.
- UW
CSE/Business "Software Entrepreneurship" course profiled
in Seattle Times (May 1999)
This course has been taught for the past two years by Brian Bershad from
CSE and Emer Dooley from Business Administration, to teams of graduate
students from the two departments.
- "Go2Net
Hires Dr. Oren Etzioni as Chief Technology Officer" (May 1999)
Oren Etzioni has taken a one-year leave of absence from UW CSE
to serve as CTO of Go2Net. Go2Net, a network of websites, acquired
Etzioni's MetaCrawler from Netbot in 1997, and Etzioni has served on
its Board of Directors since 1998. As CTO, Etzioni will help drive
Go2Net's move into broadband content and its emerging relationship
with Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Inc.
- "Digital
David" (April 1999)
John Yeager from Q13 News interviews UW CSE faculty member Brian Curless
(1:45, in
Windows
Media Player format).
- "UW
professor helping create digital replicas of Michelangelo's sculptures" (April 1999)
UW press release concerning Professor Brian Curless's three month trip to
Florence, Italy, to participate in the Digital Michelangelo
project.
- "Computer
Scientist wins coveted Sloan Fellowship" (April 1999)
University Week article concerning Assistant
Professor Alon Levy's Sloan Research Fellowship, the third
received by UW CSE faculty.
- "UW makes
bid for top computer students" (April 1999)
Seattle Post Intelligencer article describing
UW CSE's new "Early Decision" program, under which a
small number of high school seniors will be admitted
directly to the Computer Science and Computer Engineering
undergraduate major programs, prior to completing their
university-level prerequisites.
- US News again ranks UW CSE among the nation's top ten for
Computer
Science (including subfields)
and Computer Engineering (March 1999)
Results of the periodic graduate program beauty contest conducted
by US News and World Report.
- "Seattle's
GigaPoP Brings the Next Generation of the Internet to the Northwest"
(Spring 1999)
The inaugural issue of Northwest Science & Technology features
the Pacific NW GigaPoP, including UW CSE's involvement.
- "UW
is helping pioneer the Internet of the future" (March 1999)
Seattle Post Intelligencer article describing UW's
Internet2 GigaPoP efforts, an undertaking of UW Computing &
Communications in partnership with UW CSE.
- "Company
recruiters eagerly court high-tech graduates" (March 1999)
The Seattle Times features the hot market for UW CSE graduates
in a front page article.
- "Unlocking
the Secrets of the Brain: Building Powerful New Computers that Think Like
Us" (March 1999)
The March 1999 cover story of Popular Science features
the August 1998 UW/Microsoft Summer Research Institute on "Intelligent
Systems: Biological and Computational Perspectives". For further
information on this Summer Institute, see
here.
- CNN
Coverage of Internet2 Abilene network rollout features UW
C&C and CSE
(February 1999)
At the February 24th Internet2 Abilene network rollout
at Washington DC's Union Station,
UW Computing & Communications ran a continuous demonstration
of multiple transcontinental MPEG2 video streams.
CNN's coverage of the event led off with UW's
contribution -- a clip from CSE's The Art of
Survival student animation, followed by an interview
with Letcher Ross from C&C. (See the video footage attached to
the CNN article.)
- NSF
Director Rita Colwell discusses UW CSE in New York Times
interview (February 1999)
The National Science Foundation is targeted as the lead agency in
the $366 million "IT2 Initiative," a response to the report of the
Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. NSF Director
Rita Colwell discusses the rationale for this investment, using UW
CSE as an example.
- Chris Diorio wins PECASE Award (February 1999)
At a White House ceremony on February 10,
UW CSE Assistant Professor Chris Diorio was honored as one of 20 NSF-sponsored
recipients of the 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers. NSF's PECASE nominees were selected from the more than
300 recipients of last year's already-highly-competitive CAREER (Faculty
Early Career Development) Awards.
(NSF press
release.)
- "But
not everyone is stupid" (February 1999)
The Stranger
picks up on Diorio's PECASE Award!
- "Alistair
Holden: UW professor pioneered artificial intelligence" (February 1999)
The Seattle Times eulogizes UW CSE Emeritus Professor
Alistair D.C. Holden, who passed away on February 3 at age 70.
- "Creating a digital archive of Michelangelo's sculptures" (January 1999)
The Seattle Times profiles CSE faculty member
Brian Curless's participation in the Digital Michelangelo
project.
Supported by Paul Allen and Interval Research, and headed by
Brian's Stanford Ph.D. advisor Marc Levoy, the Digital Michelangelo
project will construct 3D CAD models of Michelangelo's
most famous sculptures, based upon high-resolution laser scanning.
- "Best of the Sound, '98" (January 1999)
The Seattle Times recognizes UW CSE chair Ed Lazowska:
"Every New Year's Day, the Seattle Times editorial-page staff
recognizes remarkable people - as individuals or members of a group - who
added measurably to the quality of life in the Puget Sound region.
Some were gentle and some tough enough for a difficult task, but
all have something in common - good work that shows an enthusiastic
investment in the future."
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