“Keypad: an auditing file system for theft-prone devices,” a paper describing a new file system that enhances data security on mobile devices, has been named “Best Student Paper” at this year’s EuroSys 2011 conference. The paper was authored by UW CSE graduate students Roxana Geambasu and John P. John and UW CSE faculty members Steve Gribble, Yoshi Kohno, and Hank Levy.
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In the “local gal makes good” department: 2003 UW CSE alum Siobhan Quinn is interviewed by Xconomy about the tech scene in NYC. After 7 years with Google in Mountain View, Siobhan became Foursquare’s first Product Manager last summer. Read the article here. Read more →
Mark Murray reports on invasion of English Ivy, hedera helix, which has penetrated the exterior of Sieg Hall and has emerged inside, via a heater in Sieg 127C. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust … Learn more about Beautiful Sieg Hall here. Read more →
A UW CSE team consisting of Alexei Czeskis (team captain), Karl Koscher (team co-founder), Ian Finder, Mary Pimenova, Cullen Walsh, Baron Oldenburg, Conrad Meyer, and Mark Jordan – coached by Melody Kadenko – has won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!
The finals, held April 9 and 10 in San Antonio TX, featured 9 teams from across the nation – the winners of 9 regional competitions. A total of 109 teams participated in these regional competitions.
Congratulations!!!!!
See a previous post, prior to the competition, here. Seattle Times here. Geek Wire here. NCCDC press release here. NCCDC web page here. UW Today here. BroadbandBreakfast.com here. Virtual-Strategy here. The Christian Science Monitor here. Read more →
From the Seattle Times:
“A team of eight University of Washington students will wage war this weekend against an expert force, defending their territory with stealth tactics and on-the-fly invention. But there are no physical weapons involved. There’s not even a physical battleground. For the fourth year in a row, the team will compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, in which teams from around the country attempt to shield a computer system from professional hackers aiming to cause havoc ranging from stealing trade secrets to turning home pages into random YouTube videos.”
CSE team members Alexei Czeskis, Baron Oldenburg, Ian Finder, and Karl Koscher are quoted in the article, as well as iSchool faculty member Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, who established the regional competition that the CSE team had to win in order to reach the nationals. Other team members are Mark Jordan, Conrad Meyer, Mary Pimenova, and Cullen Walsh.
Read the article here. Read more →
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to recognize research contributions to object-oriented programming. Each year two prizes are awarded: to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions, and to a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the area of Software Engineering.
The recipient of the 2011 senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize is Craig Chambers, for work done as a UW CSE faculty member from 1991-2007. (At that time, Craig moved to Google Seattle; he is now an Adjunct Professor in CSE.)
Craig is CSE’s first recipient of the senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize. The 2007 junior prize was awarded to UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jonathan Aldrich, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. The 2005 junior prize was awarded to UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gail Murphy, a faculty member at the University of British Columbia.
Congratulations Craig! Read the award announcement here. Read about previous prize recipients here. Read more →
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are the most prestigious awards available to students beginning their graduate studies in the sciences. Among the winners of 3-year 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, announced today, are current UW CSE graduate students Katelin Bailey, Waylon Brunette, Katie Kuksenok, Yun-En Liu, and David Rosenbaum; UW CSE undergraduate seniors Will Johnson and Joy Kim; and 2010 UW CSE undergraduate alumnae Justine Sherry (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley) and Heather Underwood (now a graduate student at the University of Colorado). Also HCDE/DUB students Alexis Hope and John Porter.
Honorable Mentions were awarded to UW CSE graduate students Brian Burg, Paul Kulchenko, Jinna Lei, and Nell O’Rourke.
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Corensic, a software quality tool company founded by UW CSE faculty Mark Oskin and Luis Ceze, this week announced the availability of Jinx 1.2 R2, a software quality tool for Linux and Windows. Jinx exposes hard-to-find concurrency bugs in software, a task that ordinarily requires numerous manual steps and a great deal of luck.
Intel is blogging about Corensic and Jinx! As James Reinders states in his Intel blog, “I was a little ‘slow’ in figuring out what all the fuss was about when I first met them more than a year ago. They like to play up their product as ‘testing’ your code by making it ‘unlucky.’ Makes for cool marketing and a funny product name.
“A light bulb went off in my head when I realized they were doing what hardware folks call ‘shake rattle and roll tests’ where you literally take hardware (computer, car, refrigeration, you name it!) and shake it to see if anything comes loose or malfunctions. Brutal!”
Read the PRWeb article here; the Intel blog post here. Learn more about Corensic here. Read more →
UW Interim President Phyllis Wise today announced 8 inaugural University of Washington Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows. Included in this inaugural class are UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Yoky Matsuoka.
The Fellows are being honored as the University’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, having achieved success in translating their research into products and therapies or started groundbreaking programs for translation or collaboration with industry.
“‘The University of Washington is dedicated to maximizing our contribution to the Washington state economy, and the impact of our research. We’re immensely proud of the achievements of those chosen as UW Presidential EFFs,’ said interim UW President Dr. Phyllis Wise. ‘UW researchers will conduct more than a billion-and-a-half-dollars in federally funded research this year.’”
Congratulations to Oren and Yoky!
Read the UW press release here. GeekWire article here. Read more →
CSE’s Mark Bun, a junior who entered the UW through the early entrance program, has been awarded a 2011 Goldwater Scholarship. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences.
Mark is the sixth CSE undergraduate to be honored with a Goldwater Scholarship. See past award winners here.
Congratulations to Mark!
Read the UW announcement here. Read more →