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Our researchers are driving innovation across the entire hardware, software and network stack to make computer systems more reliable, efficient and secure.

From internet-scale networks, to next-generation chip designs, to deep learning frameworks and more, we build and refine the devices and applications that individuals, industries and, indeed, entire economies depend upon every day.


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Allen School News

In 2011, a team of researchers that included Allen School professor and alum Franziska Roesner published a paper detailing how they could remotely take control of a car. Their work, which inspired new motor vehicle security standards, received the USENIX Test of Time Award.

GeekWire

After nearly half a century at UW — and at the intersection of Seattle tech, education and civic life — Lazowska is logging off from his official duties. But he’s not completely shutting things down, with plans to stay involved in the community and focus on “the big problems.”

Allen School News

Cardinality estimation helps guide decisions on every aspect of query execution, but current methods often have large errors. To address this, Suciu introduced a more accurate and efficient cardinality estimator, LpBound, which provides a guaranteed upper bound on the query output size.