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In 2001....
- CSE
undergraduates Sara Su, Shirley Gaw honored by CRA (December 2001)
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.
- "Labscape" project
featured by Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (December 2001)
"Our hope and expectation is that the next generation of biologists,
which is in high school now, will really embrace this type of tool.
By the time these students enter university, using tools like
Labscape will be second nature to them."
- C|net
profiles UW CSE startup Performant (November 2001)
"'Mike Metzger, Ashutosh Tiwary and the Performant team have done an exceptional job in achieving milestones and delivering their first product according to plan,' said Matt McIlwain, venture partner, Madrona Venture Group."
- Hank
Levy named Fellow of IEEE (November 2001)
UW CSE Professor Hank Levy has been 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).
- CSE alumnus Anne Condon named Distinguished Alumnus at University College Cork (November 2001)
Anne Condon, '87 doctorate recipient from CSE, 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."
- Ed
Lazowska named Fellow of AAAS (November 2001)
UW CSE Professor Ed Lazowska is among 288
scientists (three from UW) to be named Fellows
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, AAAS announced last week.
Lazowska is also a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE,
and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
- UW CSE tops
National Doctoral Program Survey (October 2001)
UW Computer Science & Engineering
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.
Computer Science information is
here (institutions are listed alphabetically within quartiles).
"Note: This is an observational study, not
a controlled experiment."
- Red Herring
profiles UW CSE startup Impinj (October 2001)
"[Carver] Mead and a former student of his,
Chris Diorio, a researcher at the University of Washington,
cofounded Impinj, a Seattle-based communications chip
startup that promises to turn the market for mixed-signal chips
(combining analog and digital) on its head."
- Technology
Review profiles Intel's new "research lablets" adjacent to UW, Berkeley,
and CMU (October 2001)
"It's not unusual for companies to establish research labs
adjacent to major universities," says Ed Lazowska, chair of
the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington, near where the first lablet
started this July. "What's special, though, is intimate
collaboration with the neighboring university. We're going
to have several dozen new researchers located adjacent to
our campus, whose mission is to collaborate with us."
- Technology Review profiles UW CSE startup Impinj (September 2001)
"Imagine a cell phone that never runs out of juice and delivers crystal-clear reception, or an inexpensive handheld computer that can get loads of information off the Web without running out of memory. Don't start queuing up yet, but the radically new microchips that could make such devices possible are being pieced together even as you read this magazine. And for one of the most intriguing approaches to making such advanced chips, look no further than Seattle's Impinj."
- David Notkin named to succeed Ed Lazowska as chair of CSE (August 2001)
Dean of Engineering Denice D. Denton has named Professor
David Notkin as CSE's 7th chair, effective September 1, 2001.
- Lazowska, CRA
file in Felten et al. v. RIAA et al. (August 2001)
"The Computing Research Association believes that the
action by RIAA et al. represents a clear and immediate
threat to the healthy conduct of computer systems research.
Much of computer systems research involves the analysis of
existing systems to reveal their shortcomings, and the
publication of these analyses, which stimulates the
invention of improvements. This pattern of research is
no less viable -- no less essential -- when the system
under consideration is one that is used to protect
copyrighted works."
- Microsoft gives $7.2 million for CSE Building (August 2001)
"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. That's what this
announcement is about." Construction on the CSE Building
will commence in October; see further project information
here.
(Seattle Times; see also
University
Week,
Columns,
UW
press release.)
- SoccerDawgs (August 2001)
UW CSE's SoccerDawgs compete in the RoboCup 2001
competition -- robot soccer played by teams of Sony Aibo dogs.
- In a
Virtual Maze, Men Are Smart Rats" (June 2001)
The New York Times profiles the research
of Earl Hunt -- UW Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor
of Computer Science & Engineering, and a member of the
group of faculty that founded UW CSE in the 1960's.
Hunt's research, with graduate student Maryam Allahyar,
finds that virtual environments exaggerate male-female
differences in orientational ability.
- Intel
Research opens new lab at the University of Washington (June 2001)
Intel Corporation today announced it is establishing an Intel
Research laboratory at the University of Washington, where Intel
and UW researchers will collaborate on the development of new
technologies and usage models for future ubiquitous computing
environments.
The Intel Research lab will provide facilities for 25 to 30
Intel scientists, university faculty and students, and visiting
researchers. The lab will be headed by Dr. Gaetano Borriello,
a faculty member of the University's Department of Computer Science
& Engineering since 1988. Borriello's expertise has been in
investigating the potential for intelligent devices to augment
human endeavors, what he calls "invisible computing." He will
take a two-year leave from UW to work for Intel as the lab's
director.
(Puget Sound Business Journal
here;
University Week
here.)
- Chris
Diorio wins 2001 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award
(May 2001)
CSE Assistant Professor Chris Diorio has received a 2001 University
of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award.
Chris joins Gaetano Borriello, Carl Ebeling, and David Salesin
as recent Distinguished Teaching Award winners; in addition,
David Notkin received the 2000 Distinguished Graduate Mentor
Award, and the department received the inaugural Brotman
Award for Instructional Excellence in 1999.
(See Columns article
here.)
- CSE-led
team wins 2001 UW Business Plan Competition (May 2001)
Ensemble Networks beat 41 other teams to win the Grand
Prize (and $40,000 in seed funding) in
the 2001 University of Washington Business Plan Competition.
Graduate student Chris Thompson was the technical member of
the team, which also included MBA students Jason Demeny and
Larry Walters, and UW economics alumnus Josh Hutto.
The Gray Cary "Best Technology" prize was awarded to
the
Grapevine
Software team: CSE undergraduates Max Noy
and Jing Su, and MBA students Matt Boose, Eddie Chung,
and Geroge Donegan. Grapevine Software was derived from a
course project in Gaetano Borriello's Winter Quarter
"Embedded Systems" capstone design course, CSE 476.
- "Inventing the future"
and "Ivory tower innovators" (April 2001)
The Puget Sound Business Journal chronicles
University
of Washington entrepreneurship (highlighting CSE professors Oren
Etzioni and Dan Weld), and profiles
UW
CSE chair Ed Lazowska.
- UW CSE's "Simultaneous MultiThreading" featured in The Economist (April 2001)
Simultaneous MultiThreading, invented by UW CSE Professors Susan Eggers
and Hank Levy and their graduate student Dean Tullsen, offers dramatic
improvements in scalar processor performance. SMT processors will be
introduced by Compaq and others in the near future.
- Jerre
Noe and ERMA team honored by SRI (March 2001)
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.
Read
the fascinating history of the ERMA project here -- "ERMA
instantly revolutionized the world banking system
and made checking accounts practical and reliable. In
addition, it was an engineering achievement of great
consequence."
- "Creating
something from nothing" (March 2001)
Puget Sound Business Journal profiles
UW CSE professor Dan Weld.
- "UW student earns top honor for computer research" (March 2001)
"He has yet to earn his bachelor's degree, but already
has a patent. Now, UW senior Kevin Zatloukal's research
in data compression and caching has earned him the Computing
Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate award."
A Seattle Times article noting CRA's recognition of
Kevin, along with UW CSE classmates
Matt Rosencrantz, Steve Zhang, Emma Brunskill,
and Adnan Sulejmanpasic.
Kevin was recognized at the ACM1 Awards Banquet in San
Jose on March 11.
- "And
the Oscar goes to ..." (March 2001)
UW CSE alumnus Loren Carpenter shares the first
Oscar of the millenium, and the first Oscar ever given to computer
science, with RenderMan co-inventors and Pixar co-principals
Ed Catmull and Rob Cook. (Above article from Spectrum.
See article from San Francisco Chronicle
here.)
- Sieg
Hall still standing (March 2001)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on the aftermath
of the earthquake. (Subheading "At the University of Washington,"
halfway down.)
- KUOW
(Seattle NPR): "High Tech Entrepreneurship" (February 2001)
Madrona Venture Group managing director Greg Gottesman
and UW CSE professors Chris Diorio and Oren Etzioni
are interviewed by Steve Scher on KUOW's
"Weekday."
- NPR's
Talk of the Nation, live in Seattle: "The
Information Age: How it's shaping human history" (February 2001)
Host Juan Williams interviews UW CSE chair Ed Lazowska,
RealNetworks founder and CEO Rob Glaser, U.S. Senator Maria
Cantwell, and technology writer Ellen Ullman.
(47:20, RealMedia)
(Second segment, "Could technology
change what it means to be human?," features UW professor
and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center director Lee Hartwell,
Microsoft Sr. VP for Research Rick Rashid, and science
fiction writer Greg Bear.)
- Ed
Lazowska elected to National Academy of Engineering (February 2001)
UW CSE chair Ed Lazowska has been elected to the
National Academy of Engineering "for leadership and contributions
to computer performance evaluation and distributed systems."
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the
highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
(
University Week article;
UW press release)
- KUOW
(Seattle NPR): "The Future of Computing" (February 2001)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science director Michael
Dertouzos and UW CSE chair Ed Lazowska are interviewed
by Steve Scher on KUOW's
"Weekday."
- "Spreading
the boom" (pdf) (January 2001)
Tacoma News Tribune op-ed by UW CSE chair Ed Lazowska.
(Pdf format is article as it appeared in the News Tribune;
Tribnet web link
here.)
- Bill Baxter donates 100,000
shares of BSQUARE to UW CSE (January 2001)
Bill Baxter -- founder, Chairman, President,
and CEO of BSQUARE Corporation -- has
donated 100,000 shares of BSQUARE stock to UW CSE.
BSQUARE is the world leader in delivering innovative
software proudcts, services, and turnkey design solutions
for intelligent computing devices.
"I truly understand the significant role the University of
Washington's Department of Computer Science & Engineering
plays in helping Washington State maintain its technology
leadership," said Baxter in making the donation. "This
contribution demonstrates my appreciation for the hard
work and dedication the department displays in producing
the talented people we hire at BSQUARE."
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