A Microsoft video interview of UW CSE professor Luis Ceze, one of five recipients nationwide of 2009 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowships.  See the interview here.

On Wednesday July 22, UW CSE faculty members Brian Curless, Yoky Matsuoka, Zoran Popovic, and Steve Seitz will present an “Interactive Media Technology Showcase” co-sponsored by Enterprise Seattle and UW TechTransfer.

The event, which runs from 9:00-6:30, will be held at Enterprise Seattle, 1301 5^th Avenue #2500.

Announcement here.

Speaker biographies here and talk topics here.

Registration information here.

Imagine having the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publish a paper of yours, and in the same issue, a paper explaining your paper.  UW CSE professor Emo Todorov, whose research concerns optimal control, no longer has to imagine it.  Start with the explanation, here.  Then brave the paper, here.  When you’re done, send a note to PNAS telling them that in their next life they should choose a name with a different acronym.

UW CSE’s Luis Ceze was named a 2009 Microsoft New Faculty Fellow for his work on improving the programmability of multicore systems. His research spans computer architecture, compilers, operating systems, and programming languages. One of his group’s key projects is to completely remove nondeterminism from multiprocessor systems, potentially changing the way we debug, test, and deploy multithreaded code.

Luis joins UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska as a Microsoft New Faculty Fellow — Magda was recognized in 2007.

More information may be viewed here.

KUOW (Seattle’s NPR station) interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska regarding the Amazon.com Kindle DX pilot program that will be launched by UW and six other colleges and universities this fall.

Streamed version of the interview here.  MP3 download here. Or listen from your browser below.

Not exactly newsworthy, but too good to pass up.  Read the post here.

UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno is interviewed by wired.com regarding concerns recently published July 1 in Neurosurgical Focus.  The research paper, written with CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka and CSE Ph.D. student Tammy Denning, highlights neural devices and the potential for security risks.  While most current devices carry few security risks, as neural engineering becomes more complex and more widespread, the potential for security breaches will mushroom.

“’Neural devices are innovating at an extremely rapid rate and hold tremendous promise for the future,’ said computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington. ‘But if we don’t start paying attention to security, we’re worried that we might find ourselves in five or ten years saying we’ve made a big mistake.’”

Read the full article here.

Read the paper, “Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices,”  here.

UW CSE’s friend and year-long visitor Kai Li is interviewed in Xconomy regarding his startup Data Domain, much in the news lately.

“Now I know why venture capitalists walk the halls at the University of Washington – you never know who you might run into. My timing was impeccable yesterday as I sat down with Kai Li, the co-founder and chief scientist of Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the Santa Clara, CA-based data storage company that just got bought by EMC (NYSE: EMC) for $2.1 billion in cash.”

Read the full article here.

“The Pentagon’s research agency has historically maintained a tight relationship with the computing research community. Civilians may recognize some results: the Internet, personal computing, and high-performance computer graphics, says the University of Washington’s Edward D. Lazowska.

“But that relationship ‘has become less close in recent years,’ says Mr. Lazowska, the university’s Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering …

“Now new leaders are taking over the agency. And Mr. Lazowska says ‘we’re looking forward to restoring’ a relationship whose deterioration is ‘bad for the field, bad for the nation, and bad for the nation’s defense.’”

Read the Chronicle of Higher Education article here.

The UW Daily discusses UW CSE’s Kindle DX pilot program.

“‘The big value is having the content when you need it,’Lazowska said. ‘It will only get better when more and more academic content becomes available.’”

Learn more about the pilot here.

Read the full UW Daily article here.