UW CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa discusses his work on information technology for the developing world in this terrific UW College of Engineering video.
“Computer scientists and computer engineers change the world by designing, building, and deploying innovative solutions to real-world problems …”
Watch the video here. Learn more about Yaw and his research here. Read more →
Todd Bishop and John Cook host UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire:
“This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a ’60 Minutes’ crew, the opening of Zynga’s new office in Pioneer Square, and the city’s plan to bring better Internet connectivity to the Seattle neighborhood, to the potential benefit of the many startups headquartered there.
“Our guest in the studio is Ed Lazowska, the longtime University of Washington computer science professor, who talks about the latest trends he’s seeing in computer science research, his take on Paul Allen vs. Bill Gates, the state of funding for computer science education, the rising demand for top-notch engineers, and the areas he would focus on if he were just starting out in the field.”
Listen to the podcast here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. student Joe Devietti has been recognized with a 2011-12 Intel Graduate Fellowship.
Devietti works with UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman on the Sampa project, seeking to make multiprocessors easier to program by leveraging changes in both computer architectures and parallel programming models. Read more →
Computerworld reports on the symposium “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,” held in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article (here) includes extensive references to a talk by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska – slides here. Read more →
A post on the Babbage science and technology blog at The Economist looks at work by UW CSE/EE professor Joshua Smith et al. on wireless power for left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). LVAD, implanted in failing human hearts, is a life-saving technology that suffers from problems with high patient infection rates and maintenance overhead due to the need for external power. Smith’s new power system will be announced formally at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting in May.
“The Free-Range Resonant Electrical Energy Delivery System, or FREE-D, as Smith calls it, is powered by induction. Specifically, it exploits a phenomenon called resonant coupling, in which metal coils that resonate at the same electrical frequency can exchange energy particularly efficiently. The process transfers the power using a tuned magnetic field, which is considered less hazardous to human health than the radio waves (or even lasers) that other wireless power systems rely on. Smith’s version has a transmitter coil 26cm in diameter, which that can beam up to 15 watts of power to a receiver coil that is just 4.3cm across. The transmitter coil can thus be worn in a vest that also holds a battery pack while the receiver tucks nicely into the patient’s chest.”
Smith and his team are also looking at implanting the transmitter in beds and walls to eliminate the need for the patient to wear a vest.
Read the full post – complete with Dick Cheney references – here.
UW CSE faculty and grad students hosted 37 school kids from the Latino Achievers Academy last week. After seeing several research demos, including brain-computer interfaces, the group noshed a pizza lunch in the Atrium.
Photos may be viewed here. Read more →
Phil Bernstein
Jayant Madhavan
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jayant Madhavan (now at Google) and UW CSE adjunct professor Phil Bernstein (at Microsoft Research), along with their collaborator Erhard Rahm, have been announced as the winners of the VLDB 2011 “10-year Best Paper Award.”
The award recognizes their paper “Generic Schema Matching with Cupid” as the most influential paper presented at the 2001 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, with the benefit of a decade’s hindsight.
Congratulations! Read more →
A terrific article regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the NCCDC. Read it here! Read more →
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Krysta Yousoufian
Kyle Rector
On April 13, UW CSE hosted its annual scholarship and fellowship recognition luncheon, honoring the donors and recipients of scholarships and fellowships.
At the undergraduate level, scholarships make it possible for top students to attend UW CSE regardless of means. At the graduate level, fellowships allow us to compete successfully for the very best students from across the nation and around the world.
Undergraduate student Krysta Yousoufian and graduate student Kyle Rector described the difference that scholarship and fellowship support was making to their academic careers.
Photographs here. Brochure here. Read more →
Inger and Allan Osberg
Kristi Morton
UW CSE Ph.D. student Kristi Morton has been named the 2011 recipient of the Osberg Fellowship, a competitive fellowship awarded by the University of Washington College of Engineering thanks to the generosity of friends Allan and Inger Osberg.
Kristi – an undergraduate at Rice University – studies databases and programming languages with CSE faculty members Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Grossman, when she is not playing the drums in the UW CSE band. Read more →