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In 2006....
- "Robot
puts human thought into action" (Seattle Times)
(December 2006)
"With 32 wires sprouting from a cap on his head,
University of Washington research assistant C.J. Bell
stared at a computer screen and thought: 'Red.'
Across the room, a 2-foot-tall robot called Morpheus
shuffled up to a table holding a green block and a
red block. Tilting his head, the machine scanned the
choices with camera 'eyes.'
Morpheus paused, then picked up the red block."
The Seattle Times covers CSE professor
Raj Rao's research concerning robots controlled
by electroencephalography (EEG). "The novelty
here is that we're connecting non-invasively to a
humanoid robot,' Rao explained."
UW press release here.
Telegraph here.
The International News here.
newKerala here.
LiveScience here.
Science a gogo here.
Science Daily here.
UPI here.
The Motley Fool
here.
Physics News
here.
Science Daily
here.
Technology News Daily
here.
Engadget
here.
Coolest Gadgets
here.
ITwire
here.
Gizmodo
here.
The Oregonian
here (second article).
NetIndia123
here.
Futuresheet
here.
WhatsNext
here.
G1 Organizagues Globo (Brazil)
here.
China
here
and
here.
- CSE's Yoky
Matsuoka in Seattle Times (December 2006)
"Biotech has been a little disappointing lately, from an
economic-development perspective ...
We could use some uplifting news from the sector, and it
may be coming from the University of Washington ...
With help from several newcomers, the engineering and medical
schools are trying to create a world-class neuroengineering
research center that could raise the school's profile in the
emerging field of brain-powered robotics ...
Efforts to create a center gained momentum in late summer
when the computer-science department hired a star robotics
researcher, Yoky Matsuoka, founder of the Neurobotics
Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
She came to the UW while her husband, a computer-vision
expert, was lured by Microsoft Research."
- "Rob
Short: Operating System Evolution" (Channel9) (December 2006)
MSDN Channel9 interviews UW CSE alumnus and Microsoft Corporate
Vice President Rob Short.
- "Nike
+ iPod = Surveillance" (Wired) (November 2006)
Wired reports on new research by UW CSE faculty
member Yoshi Kohno and students Scott Saponas,
Carl Hartung, and Jonathan Lester.
"If you enhance your workout with the new Nike + iPod Sport Kit,
you may be making yourself a surveillance target.
A report from four University of Washington researchers to
be released Thursday reveals that security flaws in the new
RFID-powered device from Nike and Apple make it easy for
tech-savvy stalkers, thieves and corporations to track your
movements.
With just a few hundred dollars and a little know-how, someone
could even plot your running routes on a Google map without
your knowledge ...
"[Kohno] hastened to add that he doesn't believe Apple and
Nike purposefully designed the sensors to be surveillance-friendly.
'I just think companies should be as aware of privacy issues as
they are of safety issues,' he said. 'Too often, they aren't.'"
KING-5 TV story
here; video
here.
KOMO-4 TV story
here; video
here.
FOX News video
here.
CNN video (repeating the KING-5 story)
here.
NPR story
here
(good stuff begins at 4:20)
Seattle Times story
here.
Seattle PI story
here.
WaLeG.com
here.
All Headline News
here.
BBC News
here.
Foreign Policy
here.
ZDNet
here.
UW press release
here.
University Week story
here.
Read about the research
here.
- CSE undergrads
Hindman, Craciunoiu,
Carroll recognized by Computing Research Association (November 2006)
UW CSE undergraduates Ben Hindman, Daria Craciunoiu, and Robert Carroll
are among 68 students from across North America who have been recognized
in the 2007 Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate
Award competition. Ben was named a Finalist. Daria and Robert received
Honorable Mention.
- Ph.D.
alumnus Wen-Hann Wang named Intel Vice President (November 2006)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Wen-Hann Wang has been named
Vice President, Software and Solutions Group, and
General Manager, Software and Solutions and Product Development, China,
for Intel Corporation.
Wen-Hann received his Ph.D. from UW in 1989, working
with Jean-Loup Baer.
- Susan
Eggers, Henry Kautz named Fellows of AAAS (November 2006)
UW CSE professors Susan Eggers and Henry Kautz have been named Fellows
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society.
Founded in 1848, it includes some 262 affiliated societies
and academies of science serving 10 million individuals and
is the publisher of the journal Science. CSE professor
Ed Lazowska also is a Fellow of AAAS.
- UW
CSE startup Farecast named "Top 100 Innovation" by Popular
Science (November 2006)
Farecast,
the UW CSE startup created by professor
Oren Etzioni
that attempts to predict whether airline prices will go up or down,
has been named by Popular Science as one of the top 100
innovations of the year.
Farecast was named as one of the
"Top
50 Coolest Web sites of 2006" by Time magazine this summer.
- UW
Computer Science & Engineering "Art Walk" (November 2006)
On November 21 2006, UW CSE hosted an "Art Walk" to celebrate
the Allen Center art collection, to thank those who made it
possible, and to inaugurate Erwin Redl's "Nocturnal Flow"
installation in the Atrium.
- "Startup
social networking sites find targeted, willing helpers on campus"
(Seattle PI) (November 2006)
"Finn MacCool's is a popular Irish bar near the
University of Washington where college kids
occasionally gather to sip a Guinness or sing karaoke.
But on Oct. 8, a group of about 20 UW students were
lured to the pub for another reason.
They were there to get a sneak peek at a new social
networking service from a Seattle startup called Ripl ...
"Ed Lazowska, a UW computer science professor, agrees
that it makes sense for social networking and other
consumer-oriented services to target college students.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie just brought
up the topic in a talk last week in one of Lazowska's classes.
'He actually doesn't think you can build a successful
social networking site unless you yourself are part of
the target demographic,' said Lazowska. 'At the very least,
you have to test it on the target demographic.'"
- Oren
Etzioni will guarantee your air fare (Seattle PI) (November 2006)
"Farecast
rolls out 'insurance' on airline price hikes -- Company
offers to pay consumers if its online fare predictions are wrong ...
The startup, which has attracted press attention from
The New York Times and Time magazine,
was created by University of Washington computer science
professor
Oren Etzioni
in 2003 after he began thinking
about the various prices that people paid on a flight
to Los Angeles. It is backed with more than $7 million
in venture funding from Greylock Partners, Madrona
Venture Group and WRF Capital."
- "Entrepreneurs
See a Web Guided by Common Sense" (New York Times) (November 2006)
"One example that hints at the potential of such systems is
KnowItAll,
a project by a group of University of Washington
faculty members and students that has been financed by Google.
One sample system created using the technology is
Opine,
which is designed to extract and aggregate user-posted
information from product and review sites.
"One demonstration project focusing on hotels 'understands'
concepts like room temperature, bed comfort and hotel price,
and can distinguish between concepts like 'great,' 'almost
great' and 'mostly O.K.' to provide useful direct answers.
Whereas today's travel recommendation sites force people to
weed through long lists of comments and observations left by
others, the Web 3.0 system would weigh and rank all of
the comments and find, by cognitive deduction, just the right
hotel for a particular user.
"'The system will know that spotless is better than clean,'
said
Oren Etzioni,
an artificial intelligence researcher at
the University of Washington who is a leader of the project.
'There is a growing realization that text on the Web is a
tremendous resource.'"
- CSE
Turing Center in UW Daily (pdf) (November 2006)
"Imagine a world where you could
communicate fluently with your
computer at work, and play with
someone across the world without
knowing his language.
The Turing Center, a
multidisciplinary UW center founded
in 2005 with a multi-million dollar
grant from the Utilika Foundation,
aims to make such science fiction a
reality."
- "UW
professors' startup raises venture capital"
(Seattle Times) (November 2006)
"A new startup formed by computer science professors at the
University of Washington has raised money from Madrona Venture
Group and WRF Capital.
"'We're not yet at the stage where we're publicly disclosing
what we're doing,' said Steven Gribble, an associate professor
in the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, who
is leading the new company.
"Illumita's directors include Henry Levy, a co-founder of Performant
and chairman of the UW's Computer Science & Engineering Department,
and Brian Bershad, a computer science professor who previously founded
Appliant.com in 1997."
- UW
CSE reunion at OSDI (November 2006)
More than 50 UW CSE faculty, students, alumni, and students
of alumni gathered at a reunion held at the 2006 OSDI
conference in Seattle on November 6.
- "College
of Engineering Honors Denice Denton" (pdf) (UW Daily)
(November 2006)
"The College of Engineering will remember former dean Denice
Denton in a memorial ceremony today ...
'I think she arrived at UW without a huge amount of experience,
but she had all the right instincts -- she knew what to do
to build a better College of Engineering,' said Ed Lazowska,
the Bill & Melinda Gates chair of Computer Science &
Engineering ...
'It's wrong to think of her as just diversity-focused ... she was
really focused on building a better environment for everyone.
She was really gutsy. If you were trying to do the right thing,
she would support you in every way.'"
- Farecast,
Photo
Tourism featured in
Trend
in Engineering (pdf) (November 2006)
The Autumn 2006 issue of UW's
Trend
in Engineering features articles
on UW CSE startup
Farecast
(http://www.farecast.com),
and on CSE's
Photo
Tourism research project, commercialized by
Microsoft as
Photosynth.
- "UW Computer
Science: The Next Generation" (Seattle Times) (October 2006)
Brier Dudley reports on UW CSE's annual Industrial
Affiliates meeting.
"I heard demonstrations in rooms crowded with representatives
from Microsoft, Intel, Sun Microsystems, F5, Cray, Marchex and
various venture-capital firms and other companies."
- MobileASL
wins Best Student Paper Award at ASSETS 2006 (October 2006)
CSE graduate student
Anna Cavender
received the Best Student Paper Award at
ASSETS 2006
for her paper
"Intelligibility of sign language video as constrained by mobile phone
technology."
Cavender works with faculty members
Richard Ladner
and
Eve
Riskin,
who co-authored the award-winning paper.
MobileASL
is a video
compression project with the goal of making wireless cell phone
communication accessible to Deaf people through the use of video phones
and sign language. The challenge is to provide video phone capability
on the low bandwidth cell phone network and with the limited processing
power of cell phones.
- CSE
alum Brett Newlin named USRowing Athlete of the Year (October 2006)
UW CSE computer engineering alumnus (and Husky Crew alumnus)
Brett
Newlin has
been named "2006 Male Athlete of the Year" by USRowing.
Earlier this year, Newlin stroked the men's four to a
fourth-place finish at the 2006 FISA World Championships,
which was the top U.S. finish in the event since 2001.
Newlin went on to race in the men's eight that won
the 2006 E.ON Hanse Cup, a 12.7 kilometer long-distance
race held in Germany.
Newlin, a two-time national team member, also won the men's
pair at both the second and third USRowing National
Selection Regattas.
- "Summarizing
Personal Web Browsing Sessions" wins Best Student Paper
Honorable Mention Award at UIST 2006 (October 2006)
CSE graduate student
Mira Dontcheva
presented her work on
"Summarizing
Personal Web Browsing Sessions" at
UIST 2006
and received the Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award.
Dontcheva works with UW CSE faculty member
David Salesin
and Microsoft researchers and UW CSE affiliate faculty members
Michael Cohen
and
Steven Drucker,
who co-authored the award-winning paper.
Their research on creating visual summaries of web content
attempts to make the web more accessible for everyone.
The challenge lies in effectively automating both the
collecting and organizing of many different types of
information so that users can remain abreast of the
growing amount of web content.
- "Back
to the Drawing Board" (Wall Street Journal) (October 2006)
"Retrievr
sifts through photographs stored in Yahoo's Flickr
database by using mouse-powered doodles as its search criteria.
Visitors use a basic sketchpad and color palette to craft a
tree, a shoe, a house -- and Retrievr returns photos that match ...
Retrievr's search algorithm is based on a
1995
research paper
written by [UW CSE's] Chuck Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein and
David Salesin ..."
- "The Good Fight"
(Washington CEO) (October 2006)
Washington CEO on Microsoft.
"Microsoft has suffered in recent years from increased
competition and a weak stock price. The company is drawing
from its huge treasury to fight back. In doing so, it's
giving a big boost to Washington's economy ...
"The University of Washington's computer science department
has been a huge beneficiary, with 75 percent of the $42 million
it raised for its new building coming from Microsoft or those
who amassed their fortunes there.
'There is an enormous, incalculable impact,' says University of
Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska, holder of
the Bill & Melinda Gates chair. 'Microsoft is our present
and future.'
For his department, Microsoft serves as an eager employer of
graduates, a research collaborator, and a supplier of talented
people interested in teaching courses."
- "Washington's
Big Brain Deficit" (Washington CEO) (October 2006)
Washington CEO on Washington's education system.
"'We're no higher than 36th in this country in production of
[college] degrees,' fumes Bob Drewel, who heads Prosperity
Partnership ... 'We're fighting complacency. People think that
we can continue to do business as we always have and continue
to prosper. I'm here to tell them that they're wrong.'"
- "Microsoft Research: 15 years of ideas"
(Seattle Times) (September 2006)
"Microsoft celebrated the 15th anniversary of its in-house computer science
research effort this month, calling it critical to the future of its
business.
"'The reason we have Microsoft Research is so Microsoft will
still be here 10 or 15 years from now,' Rick Rashid, the senior
vice president who heads Microsoft Research, said Tuesday.
"'Microsoft is almost unique in its investment in research
that looks out 5, 10, 15 years,' said Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda
Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University
of Washington. 'Name your favorite multibillion-dollar IT
company, and for the most part they do none of that.'"
- "Where'd
the Whiz Kids Go? High Tech Jobs Go Begging" (Pacific Northwest Magazine / Seattle
Times) (September 2006)
Pacific Northwest Magazine / Seattle Times
discusses the enormous opportunities
in computer science, and the lack of capacity in the state's
higher education system. Many UW CSE students are featured.
"When Seattle looks in the mirror, it sees Bill Gates looking
back: a city that's geeky smart, entrepreneurial, socially
compassionate and on the cutting edge of technology ...
"In a third floor computer lab at the University of Washington,
juniors and seniors taking a computer animation course are
studying their creation ... Some of the students thrive on the
technical challenges; others focus on the artistic elements. The
capstone course is aimed at giving students some practical
experience in what has become one of the frontiers in computer
science ...
"'It's like you're always on the edge of the
new thing,' [student Maxine] Toh says. 'You're
able to help people by making life a bit easier ...'
"Right now, a UW student with a bachelors degree in computer
science can expect to make $75,000 in his or her first year.
Top students are also being routinely hired with $20,000
signing bonuses ...
"'This is an important time in state history. There's been
this economic success and dynamism,' [Microsoft's general
counsel Brad] Smith says. 'Do we build on that and make it
sustainable, or do we see our moment in the sun slip away?'"
- "A Picture Perfect Marriage" (September 2006)
Microsoft Live Labs describes UW's involvement in their new
Photosynth product. "About six months ago, a Microsoft researcher,
a Ph.D. student, and a University professor invented a new photo
browsing technology called 'Photo Tourism.'
The technology was so cool that anyone who saw it wanted to be
part of the project.
Noah Snavely, a student at the University of Washington (UW),
had single-handedly coded a rich prototype under the joint
supervision of Steve Seitz (also from UW) and Rick Szeliski
from Microsoft Research (MSR) ..."
- Gaetano
Borriello on NPR (September 2006)
All Things Considered tackles RFID privacy, and interviews CSE's
Gaetano Borriello. (Borriello segment begins at 3:35.)
- UW CSE
becomes UCSD North (September 2006)
We in UW CSE started referring to UCSD CSE as "UWSD" back in
2001, when Ed Lazowska spent a year on sabbatical with the
six UW CSE alumni then on the UCSD CSE faculty.
(See a photo from those days
here.)
As of autumn 2006, nine UW CSE alumni have joined the UCSD CSE faculty,
and the reverse flow has begun, with UCSD CSE Ph.D. alumnus
Yoshi
Kohno joining the UW CSE faculty. The photo (a
composite -- too many people to ever be in the same
place at the same time!) shows UW CSE alumni / UCSD CSE
faculty
Fran Berman, Steve Swanson, Geoff Voelker, Dean Tullsen,
Bill Griswold, Sorin Lerner, Stefan Savage, Amin Vahdat,
and Brad Calder, plus UCSD CSE alumnus / UW CSE
faculty Yoshi Kohno, wearing t-shirts bearing
Yoshi's photo and the text "UCSD North -- Seattle Branch."
(Additional photos of the group
here.
See also
"Doc"
Savage becomes dead wood.)
- UCSD
SodaVision makes the TV news (August 2006)
OK, so it's not really UW, but it's our Ph.D. alumnus
Stefan Savage
and his students, building the world's coolest biometric vending
machine.
See the SodaVision project website
here.
Says CSE graduate student Benson Limketkai: "But our prices are still
a whole lot cheaper, not to mention the friendly
faces that greet you when you shop at the benson store, the JeffStore, and
sAnnawiches. BTW, why haven't YOU ever come to shop with us? You can see
what the Lazowska Lunch (not affiliated with Ed Lazowska) is all about!"
- CSE's
Oren Etzioni in NY Times re search research and the AOL logs
(August 2006)
"Professor Etzioni said that over lunch with the AOL researchers,
he had mentioned that for his own research, he was interested in
a data set containing queries starting with 'Wh,' to signify
taht a question was being asked. Such data need not be tied to
an individual to be useful as a research tool.
'We build technology that answers questions,' he said. 'So we
want to test it on actual questions people are asking.'
The AOL researchers told Professor Etzioni they would get approval
from the company and send him a compact disc containing the question
set.
But Professor Etzioni is not holding out much hope of receiving
the data. 'I dont think that CD is in the mail,' he said, 'and
thats too bad.'"
- "Software
takes you into the world of images" (Seattle Times)
(August 2006)
Photosynth, Microsoft Live Labs exciting product offering, is derived
from software licensed from UW CSE.
- UW
CSE startup Farecast expands online services (Seattle Times)
(August 2006)
"Using fare histories and computer technology developed at the
University of Washington,
Farecast makes what amounts to
a well-educated guess about where a fare will go in the coming
week based on the date and even time of day."
- UW
CSE alums at Google featured in Washington Engineer (August 2006)
The August 2006 issue of Washington Engineer features
UW CSE alums working at Google.
"Eleven members of the UW's 'Google contingent' at the
Mountain View, CA, location pal around during an alumni
event last year. Google is among top tech companies that
regularly turn to the UW for computer science grads to fill
their ranks."
- Oren
Etzioni, UW CSE in Washington CEO (pdf) (August 2006)
"'If my goal was to maximize compensation, I would definitely
be in the private sector. But having spent a year as the CTO
of a public company and having worked with startups, I know that,
while it's exciting and dynamic, there's no substitute for the
intellectual stimulation of research and teaching.'"
(Full series of University of Washington profiles
here.)
- UW
ranked among "Top 25 Global Universities"
by Newsweek (August 2006)
"In response to the same forces that have propelled the world
economy toward global integration, universities have also become
more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world
who represent the entire spectrum of cultures and values, sending
their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers,
offering courses of study that address the challenges of an inter-connected
world and collaborative research programs to advance science for the
benefit of all humanity. To capture these developments, Newsweek
devised a ranking of global universities that takes into account
openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research."
- Time
names Farecast one of 2006's "50 Coolest Websites"
(August 2006)
Time Magazine has named UW CSE spinoff
Farecast
one of 2006's "50 Coolest Websites."
Farecast, founded by UW CSE professor
Oren
Etzioni,
utilizes data-mining methods originally
developed in CSE to predict how airfares will change over time.
The original paper in KDD '03 was by Alex Yates, Etzioni,
and two colleagues from USC.
The program was initially called Hamlet -- "To Buy Or Not To Buy ...
that is the question."
- "Doc"
Savage becomes dead wood (August 2006)
The UC San Diego computer systems research group
celebrated the promotion of UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus
Stefan Savage to Associate Professor
with "Doc Savage -- Deadwood" t-shirts.
Additional photos here.
- UW/Microsoft
Summer Research Institute on the World-Wide Sensor Web (August 2006)
The latest in a
decade-long series
of annual international research workshops.
This year's will
discuss how we can bring to end users the wealth of sensor data
we are now able to collect from embedded as well as mobile sensors,
the infrastructure and tools we will need to make this information
searchable and visualizable by everyone, the challenges facing the
construction of a search engine for the physical properties of
places on our planet, and other topics ranging from
the properties of the sensing devices all the way to
end-user applications and all the networking, databases,
and distributed systems in between.
- Google
features CSE alum Jennifer Maurer in Seattle Times
(pdf) (August 2006)
A full page recruiting ad in the Seattle Times
features CSE alum Jennifer Maurer:
"Google is looking for engineers with great aspirations. Take Jennifer Maurer,
for example. Jennifer, who counts fluency in Spanish and a deft touch
with horses among her prodigious talents, is a software engineer who
works on Google Maps in our Seattle engineering office in Kirkland,
Washington. Jennifer once dreamed of a career working outdoors with
animals, and was a riding instructor at a summer camp for four years. And
then an advanced placement computer science class she took in high
school captured her imagination ..."
- Photo
Tourism / Photosynth (July 2006)
Microsoft Research promotes Photo Tourism / Photosynth, new technology
resulting from a collaboration between Microsoft Research (Rick
Szeliski) and UW CSE (Steve Seitz and Noah Snavely)
presented during SIGGRAPH 2006.
Microsoft Live Labs will offer Photo Tourism as
Photosynth, a scalable, client-server prototype.
UW CSE Photo Tourism page
Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth
page
BBC News
article
- CSE hosts Vertical Mentoring
Workshop for the Blind (July 2006)
This three-day workshop will provide a venue for blind students
and professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) to get together to share their experiences and learn from each
other how to maximize their chances for success. High school
students will learn from college students, college students from
graduate students and professionals, and graduate students from
professionals.
Seattle PI article
here.
- Oren
Etzioni, Farecast in Time (July 2006)
"Etzioni's site Farecast.com ... provides the lowest fare on a route,
a 90-day price history and,
using a novel predictive algorithm,
a tip to 'buy now' or 'wait,'
along with a figure indicating how confident Farecast is in its advice."
- "Airfares
Made Easy (or Easier)" (New York Times) (July 2006)
The New York Times profiles
Farecast,
a startup created by UW CSE professor
Oren
Etzioni.
"You squeeze into your seat in the airliner, buckle up and then,
against your best judgment, you start asking your seat mates what
they paid for their airfare.
"That's what Oren Etzioni did on a flight in 2002 and he
discovered that, of course, others paid less for their tickets.
Even worse, said Mr. Etzioni, a professor of computer science
and engineering at the University of Washington, 'they
bought later than I did.'
"Mr. Etzioni, the brains behind such early Internet companies
as MetaCrawler, a search engine, and Netbot, an online comparison
shopping service, decided this was a situation computers could
address. All he would need is a mountain of data to mine for
information about seat supply and demand and an algorithm to
predict how the airlines' algorithms were going to price those seats.
"A brief student project proved that, indeed, computers could be
far more reliable than a Magic 8-Ball. So Mr. Etzioni helped
to create Farecast, an airfare search engine that also
predicts how much the price of an airline ticket will rise or
fall over the coming days."
- UW
CSE endows Denice Dee Denton Scholars in Computer
Science & Engineering (June 2006)
In 1990, under the leadership of Professor Richard Ladner, UW Computer
Science & Engineering established an endowment to help support our
commitment to a diverse student population. Fifteen years later, thanks
to the generosity of faculty, staff, students, friends, and alumni who
share this commitment, this endowment has grown to more than a quarter of
a million dollars.
At Professor David Notkin's suggestion, CSE has named this
endowment to honor Denice Dee Denton, Dean of Engineering from
1996-2005, who died tragically on June 24 2006.
Denice was an inspirational leader, and a strong voice for social
justice, diversity, and excellence. She possessed enormous measures of
vision, courage, integrity, and backbone. An endowment supporting
undergraduate and graduate Denton Scholars in Computer Science &
Engineering will be a lasting tribute.
[Note that we are not seeking additional contributions.
This endowment, which is in every way consistent with Denice's
vision, exists and is fully funded.
It is being named in Denice's honor.
Those wishing to remember Denice at the University of Washington may
support a
new endowment being created in the College of
Engineering.]
- "Microsoft
looks to academia" (Associated Press) (June 2006)
"Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in
computer science and engineering at the University of Washington,
believes Microsoft's heavy educational investments reflect what he
calls 'enlightened self-interest.' While Microsoft benefits from it,
he said researchers who are able to use that involvement for
everything from astronomy research to helping technology
development in Third World countries do, too."
- UW CSE
Ph.D. alumnus Gerome Miklau wins 2006 ACM SIGMOD
Dissertation Award (June 2006)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus
Gerome Miklau,
now an Assistant Professor
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has been named the
recipient of the
2006 ACM SIGMOD
Dissertation Award, for the
most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in databases during the
past year.
Gerome's dissertation,
"Confidentiality
and Integrity in Distributed Data Exchange," was supervised
by UW CSE professor
Dan Suciu.
- Denice
Dee Denton, 1959-2006 (June 2006)
Denice Dee Denton, Chancellor of U.C. Santa Cruz and former Dean
of Engineering at the University of Washington, took her own life
in San Francisco on June 24.
Denice stood by UW CSE at a time when we needed it badly.
We will always be grateful for her vision, integrity, and backbone.
Slideshow
of memorial service at UCSC, June 29 2006
Seattle
Times
San
Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
San
Jose Mercury
San
Jose Mercury
Seattle
PI
- "Beyond
the Valley: 10 Booming U.S. Cities for Tech"
(eWEEK) (June 2006)
"eWEEK editorial scoured dozens of news stories, job reports
and technology forecasts, crunched them all together with a
dash of insight, and came up with the following 10 cities and
their surrounding areas.
"1. Seattle ..."
- "America's
smartest cities" (Bizjournals.com) (June 2006)
"Which community boasts the highest concentration of
brainpower -- and therefore can claim to be America's
smartest big city?
"The answer is
Seattle,
according to a new study by Bizjournals.com ...
"San Francisco and Austin are the runners-up in the Bizjournals.com
study, which ranks the relative brainpower of 53 large communities."
- Jeff
Dean, Craig Chambers, Dave Grove win
"Most Influential PLDI Paper Award" (June 2006)
The "Most Influential PLDI Paper Award" is
presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented
at the PLDI held 10 years prior to the award year.
The papers are judged by their influence over the past decade.
CSE professor Craig Chambers and his former students Jeff
Dean and Dave Grove were honored for their 2005
paper "Selective Specialization for Object-Oriented
Languages."
- "Intel
touts personal sensors for smarter PCs" (Vnunet.com) (June 2006)
"A research project by Intel and the University of Washington
is using a set of eight sensors to collect data on ambient light,
infrared light, body movements, sound volumes, air humidity
and air pressure. The sensors allow the device to determine
whether a person is walking, jogging or climbing stairs, for example."
- CSE faculty
honored at June 6 event (pdf) (June 2006)
At a June 6 gala, CSE recognizes faculty achievement and salutes
donors and friends:
Hank Levy, incoming department chair;
David Notkin, Frank & Wilma Bradley Endowed Chair;
Gaetano Borriello, Jerre D. Noe Endowed Professorship;
Steve Gribble, Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professorship;
Steve Seitz, Short-Dooley Endowed Career Development Professorship
Susan Eggers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
- CSE History 2005-06 (June 2006)
Don't miss the graduate student skit from the December 2 holiday party,
or the Food Olympics video!
Ancient history
here.
- CSE
Ph.D. alumna Gail Murphy wins 2006 CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award
(June 2006)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Gail Murphy, a professor at the University of
British Columbia, has won the 2006 CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career
Award.
The award honors the late Anita Borg, who was an early member
of CRA-W and an inspiration for her commitment in increasing the
participation of women in computing research.
The award is given annually by CRA-W to a woman in computer science
who has made significant research contributions and who has
contributed to her profession, especially in the outreach to women.
- CSE's
IDAT recognized in business plan competition (June 2006)
IDAT, the Institute for the Development of Access Technology,
won the $5,000 Herbert B. Jones Best Nonprofit/Socially
Responsible Idea award in the 2006 UW Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition.
IDAT is an outgrowth of CSE's
Tactile
Graphics Project, spearheaded by professor Richard Ladner.
CSE graduate students Sangyun Hahn, Ethan Katz-Bassett, and
Chandrika Jayant and CSE undergraduate students Dana Wen and
Satria Krisnandi contributed to the business plan. Math major
Zach Lattin was also a contributor. Dan Comden of the Access
Technology Lab provided much technical guidance, and Fred Holt
and Laura Dorsey of the Tech Transfer Office provided much
strategic advice. Team leader was Mitch Berg from the
Technology Management MBA Program with some help from
Jon Lee of the same program.
- Spring
2006 Most Significant Bits (UW CSE
newsletter) (pdf) (May 2006)
"All the news that fits, we print."
- "Making
airfares less of a gamble" (Seattle PI) (May 2006)
A profile of UW CSE startup Farecast.
- "Smoothing
turbulence of airfares' ups, downs" (Seattle Times) (May 2006)
A profile of UW CSE startup Farecast.
- University
of Washington ranked #1 in the nation ... (May 2006)
for playing Warcraft.
"Forget academic or pre-season football rankings, here are
the Top 25 Schools ranked according to number of visitors
to MapWoW."
- CSE's Turing Center in Puget
Sound Business Journal (May 2006)
"What if you could use the Internet to communicate with
any person in any language?
That's the lofty goal of a group of researchers at the
University of Washington's
Turing Center.
"The ... Center, which was established last May with
funding from the Utilika Foundation of Seattle, the
National Science Foundation, several United States
military agencies, and support from Google Inc., [is]
under the directorship of artificial-intelligence
pioneer Oren Etzioni."
- Ed
Lazowska interviews Jeff Bezos at Technology Alliance annual luncheon
(Seattle PI) (May 2006)
"Online retailing will continue to evolve and grow over the next 10 years,
but it will not come close to overtaking sales at physical retail stores,
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos told a group of more than 1,000 people from
Seattle's technology industry Monday ...
Bezos said that innovation has 'always been part of our DNA,' adding that
it has led to breakthroughs such as 'search inside the book' and 'one-click
shopping.' It is also a big reason why the company does not spend much
money on advertising.
Because the Internet has shifted power to the consumer, Bezos said it
makes more sense to invest in great products and services.
'In the old world, perhaps the person with mediocre products and
services could win if they were the best at shouting about those
services,' he said. 'I think that will become an increasingly difficult
formula as time goes forward.'"
See also
Seattle Times,
Seattle PI Venture Blog,
Associated
Press,
Tacoma
News Tribune.
- CSE
alumnus Jeremy Jaech wins 2006 College of Engineering
"Entrepreneurial Excellence"
Diamond Award (May 2006)
"In the past 20 years Jeremy has had a hand in the startups
of Aldus (acquired by Adobe), Visio (acquired by Microsoft)
and now Trumba.
New ways of working have sprung from his revolutionary products ..."
Two of the four 2006 Diamond Awards -- presented at a
May 5 banquet -- were won by CSE alumni.
- CSE
alumnus Jeff Dean wins 2006 College of Engineering
"Early Career" Diamond Award (May 2006)
"Millions of people satisfy their curiosity every day by
using Jeff Dean's handiwork. Jeff has helped to develop and
implement three generations of Google's
Web crawling, indexing and query serving systems -- covering
two and three orders of magnitude growth in number of documents
searched, number of queries handled per second, and frequency
of updates to the system."
Two of the four 2006 Diamond Awards -- presented at a May 5
banquet -- were won by CSE alumni.
- "Cybersecurity
research plan identifies threats; Federal plan lacks a funding strategy
for critical infrastructure protection R&D"
(Federal Computing Week) (May 2005)
"So my entreaty to Dr. Marburger is, 'Spare me the commendations
and show me the money,'" Lazowska said. "It's time for
leadership and investment."
- Watch
our new videos! (April 2006)
"A Day in the Life" describes the lives of three recent bachelors
graduates from UW CSE, in three 3-minute segments.
"Power to Change the World" presents clips from interviews with
roughly a dozen UW CSE students, alumni, and faculty, explaining
why they chose computer science as their field
- CSE
Bachelors alumnus Hakim Weatherspoon featured in Intel
Tech News (April 2006)
"As it turns out, Weatherspoon has a long history with Intel.
As a high school senior in the Portland area, the student
received an Intel honors internship and spent his summers
during college working at the corporation's microprocessor
fabrication facilities in Oregon. Weatherspoon earned his
undergraduate degree in computer science from the University
of Washington.
He then headed to Berkeley for his Master's and now Ph.D. Along
the way, Weatherspoon married and started a family, so now juggles
academic research with raising two young children ...
On completion of his doctorate, Weatherspoon plans to pursue a career
in academic research."
- Tapan
Parikh's research on cover of IEEE Pervasive Computing
(April 2006)
Images from CSE graduate student Tapan Parikh's CAM project
comprise the cover of the April-June 2006 issue of IEEE
Pervasive Computing, and he is the author of one of
three papers included in this special issue on "Pervasive
Computing for Emerging Economies."
Tapan's research focuses on designing computing systems
that support sustainable rural development in low per-capita
income economic conditions.
- CSE
graduate student Michele Banko wins Google Anita Borg Memorial
Scholarship (April 2006)
The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was established to
honor the legacy of Anita Borg and her efforts to encourage
women to pursue careers in computer science and technology.
For the 2006-2007 academic year, Google received 324 applications
from students at 90 different universities across the country,
and selected 19 scholarship winners, including UW CSE graduate
student
Michele
Banko.
The competition also identified 28 runners up from the 324
applicants. UW CSE's Annie Liu and Sunny Consolvo were in
this select group.
Congratulations to Michele, Annie, and Sunny!
- "Levy
appointed new Computer Science & Engineering chair"
(UW Office of News and Information) (March 2006)
"Henry M. Levy, a longtime University of Washington professor and
expert in operating systems and computer architecture, will be the
next chair of the university's Department of Computer Science &
Engineering.
Levy will replace David Notkin, who has held the position for the
past five years. Levy's first official day as chair is Saturday,
April 1.
"Levy said he is honored to be following in the footsteps of 'an
incredible set of department leaders.'
"'The department is well positioned to become even stronger over
the next few years, building on the advantages of the University
of Washington and the possibilities created by our wonderful
environment in the Allen Center,' he said. 'My goal is to capitalize
on these advantages to move us forward to the next level.'"
(See also
Seattle
Times venture blog,
Seattle
PI,
photographs
of Levy's office.)
- "UW
leads national effort to bring people with disabilities into computing"
(UW Office of News and Information) (March 2006)
Richard Ladner and Sheryl Burgstahler are co-directors of
the new AccessComputing Alliance, a national NSF-funded effort
to bring more students with disabilities into computing.
- "Wisdom
on Mentoring -- Sharing the Methods of Exemplary Science and Engineering
Mentors" (AWIS Magazine) (March 2006) (pdf)
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner and former UW Dean of Engineering
Denice Denton are interviewed by AWIS Magazine.
"It is when students are empowered in a supportive environment
and have developed a spiraling-upward pattern of success
that we know we have done good jobs as mentors."
- Matt O'Donnell
named UW Dean of Engineering (March 2006)
Matt O'Donnell, Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University
of Michigan, has been named Dean of the College of Engineering at
the University of Washington.
"I'm genetically Irish," he said. "Mist doesn't bother me."
Further information on O'Donnell may be found
here.
- UW
Alumni Association recognizes CSE Professor Susan Eggers
(March 2006)
The UW Alumni Association tested out the new reader board
on Alumni House by congratulating CSE Professor Susan Eggers
upon her election to the National Academy of Engineering.
- UW
CSE Ph.D. alumna Gail Murphy wins NSERC Steacie Fellowship
(March 2006)
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
awards Steacie Fellowships to outstanding Canadian university
scientists or engineers, who have obtained their doctorate within
the last 12 years, and whose research has already earned them an
international reputation.
UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Gail Murphy, a Computer Science faculty
member at the University of British Columbia, was one of
six Steacie Fellowship winners this year.
- Ph.D.
alumna A.J. Brush in Seattle Times (March 2006)
UW CSE Ph.D. alumna A.J. Brush was featured for her
demonstration of an "inkable digital family calendar"
at Microsoft TechFest.
Additional photograph
here.
- Lazowska
shares 2005 ACM President's Award (March 2006)
ACM President David A. Patterson (UC Berkeley) has named
CSE's
Ed Lazowska
as a recipient of the 2005 ACM President's Award.
Lazowska is being recognized "For showing us how to advocate
effectively for IT research and advanced education."
Other recipients are
Andy
Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems)
"For showing us how to overcome extraordinary financial success
to remain one of the world's best computer engineers, and for
sharing his time, talent, and wealth to give dozens of startups
a chance to succeed," and
Jan Cuny
(University of Oregon and NSF)
"For showing us how to help underserved populations as a computer
scientist, a parent, a teacher, a civil servant, and a citizen."
The ACM President's Award has been conferred to only 7 people since
it was instituted in 1985. It will be presented at
the ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco in May.
- "Bush
names 14 new PCAST members" (Federal Computing Week)
(March 2006)
"Ed Lazowska, PITAC co-chairman from 2003 until the committee's
end in June 2005, said today, 'It's a new day since the President's
State of the Union message. The American Competitiveness Initiative
gives reason for hope that research and advanced education will receive
appropriate prioritization. That creates an opportunity for PCAST to be
effective.'"
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Geoff Voelker
wins UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching (February 2006)
UW CSE Ph.D. alum
Geoff
Voelker, an Associate Professor in
Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, has
received the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UCSD's most
prestigious award. The citation reads:
"In recognition of your ability to inspire young minds to stretch in
terms of technical ability, problem-solving and teamwork; for showing
faith in your students' abilities through your design of CSE 125,
"the games class," which has been a life-changing experience for
many, and has provided a model for other courses; for providing
students with valuable, highly marketable skills; for your enjoyment
of your work; and for your tireless accessibility and responsiveness
to students who not only learn, but learn to succeed.
It is with sincere gratitude and appreciation that the Chancellor's
Associates bestow this award."
- CSE's
Susan Eggers elected to National Academy of Engineering (February 2006)
Susan Eggers,
Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington, has been elected to the National Academy
of Engineering "for contributions to the design and evaluation of
advanced processor architectures."
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the
highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Academy
membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions
to "engineering research, practice, or education" and to the
"pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making
major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or
developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
UW press releases
here and
here.
- CSE
alumnus Rob Short destroys building at Microsoft (Seattle Times)
(February 2006)
"Construction on the first building, a new headquarters for
Microsoft's advanced-research group, began just after the
politicians spoke Thursday, when Rob Short, vice president
of Windows core technology, used a large yellow excavator
to begin demolishing an old storage facility.
"Short bid $1,100 in the company's United Way auction to
spend an hour tearing down a building on campus.
"After taking a ceremonial chunk out of the building, sending
dust onto the officials, media and publicity agents, Short
took a break until the crowd dispersed.
"'I'm seriously into it, but they don't want me driving this
around with all the dignitaries present; they're afraid I'll
hurt someone,' he said."
- "Ranking Colleges Using Google and OSS" (February 2006)
The University of Washington is ranked #1 in the
nation if humans do not participate
in the assessment. We knew we liked Google + Support Vector Machines!
So do "National University" and "The American College."
- UW CSE Ph.D.
alumnus Mathieu Blanchette wins 2006 Overton Prize (February 2006)
2002 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Mathieu Blanchette, now a professor at McGill
University, has received the 2006 Overton Prize from the Society for
Computational Biology. The prize is awarded "for outstanding
accomplishment to a scientist in the early- to mid-stage of his
or her career who has already made a significant contribution to
the field of computational biology through research, education,
service, or a combination of the three." UW Biochemistry's David Baker
received the 2002 Overton Prize.
- "Spyware
poses a significant threat on the Net, according to new study"
(February 2006)
"That's the overall message of a new study by University of
Washington computer scientists who sampled more than 20 million
Internet addresses, looking for programs that covertly enter the
computers of unwitting Web surfers to perform tasks ranging from
advertising products to gathering personal information, redirecting
Web browsers, or even using a victim's modem to call expensive
toll numbers."
See also
Science
Daily,
PhysOrg.com,
LiveScience,
EurekAlert,
SecurityFocus,
InformationWeek,
CRN,
SC Magazine,
Yahoo!
News,
Slashdot,
c|net.
- "Allen
building backs his team" (Seattle PI) (January 2006)
"Sure, the real news here would have been if they had hoisted
Steelers banners, but hey, it still must be nice to know that
the people at your namesake building are supporting your football
team ..."
- The Allen
Center says "Go Hawks!" (January 2006)
- "IT group
missing just one thing -- members" (Federal
Computing Week) (January 2006)
"Former PITAC members say the nation's future depends on higher
funding levels for science, engineering and advanced education
than what the administration has budgeted.
'PITAC, for example, was under strict instructions from OSTP not
to issue any recommendations that called for additional funding,'
said Ed Lazowska, former PITAC co-chairman from 2003 until the
committee's end in June 2005.
'When we deviated and recommended even an extremely modest amount
of additional funding -- as we did in our cybersecurity report -- we
were greeted with, at best, cold stares,' he added."
- "Community
Mourns Loss of Jerre D. Noe" (Computing Research News) (January
2006)
"Under his leadership, UW CSE became one of the strongest computer systems
research groups, and one of the top computer science programs, in the world."
- UW's
Classroom Presenter and use of ConferenceXP highlighted in
Microsoft Research News & Highlights (January 2006)
"In 2004 and 2005, the University of Washington, the University of
California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and
Microsoft Research collaborated to explore the impact of ConferenceXP
on real-time distributed education by teaching computer science
graduate courses collaboratively.
The 2004 offering, 'Information Technology and Public Policy,'
was followed in 2005 by 'Homeland Security.' About 80
graduate students -- from computer science, public policy, and other
fields -- three faculty members, and 10 guest lecturers participated
in each course. Participants found the approach offered enormous
advantages over traditional lectures by including diverse
faculty and students and by offering an ability to attract
phenomenal guest speakers regardless of geography."
- Winter
2006 issue of Most Significant Bits (UW CSE newsletter) (pdf)
(January 2006)
This issue of MSB commemorates Jerre D. Noe, first chair of Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
- "Imagine
Googling your car keys ..." (January 2006)
CSE professor Gaetano Borriello is interviewed on NPR's Marketplace.
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