GeekWire reports on Seattle’s instantiation of the national Gig.U initiative, spearheaded by Blair Levin of the Aspen Institute, who formerly led the FCC’s National Broadband Plan.
“University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska, who will be on hand at Monday’s press conference and is familiar with Gig.U, said that the idea is to try to build unique private-public partnerships that bring true broadband to communities. At the same time, it will attempt to break the stranglehold that telecommunications companies have held on the growth of high-speed Internet access in the country.
“Lazowska notes that the U.S. is ‘dramatically lagging’ many nations in the widespread adoption of broadband, and he thinks Gig.U is in a position to do something about it.
“‘The telcos have failed America. We have third-world broadband,’ said Lazowska. ‘The Federal government has not acted. The universities and their communities are going to give it a try.'”
Read more here. Updated post here. KUOW story here. Lazowska’s press conference remarks here. Learn about Gig.U here. Read more →
A thought-provoking article from the New York Times, here.
Think it would never happen in Seattle? Read this book. Read more →
S is for “Support UW CSE so we can produce more graduates like this guy.”
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Reuters reports:
“The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city’s emergence as what some would argue is the West Coast’s second most important hub of technology and entrepreneurship …
“Indeed, the troika of Microsoft, the mobile phone empire built by Craig McCaw, and the strong science and engineering programs at the University of Washington has created a foundation for technology entrepreneurship that is the envy of would-be Silicon Valleys around the world.”
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Kent Schliiter, a 1998 UW CSE Computer Engineering graduate, has passed away suddenly at the young age of 43.
Kent was at UW in 1989 and 1990, left for a while, then returned and finished his degree. He worked at Microsoft after leaving UW, then left Microsoft and with his wife, an M.D., started an urgent care clinic in Issaquah.
He has two little girls 7 and 9. Read more →
Wired reports on DARPA research conducted by UW CSE’s Mike Ernst and Zoran Popovic:
“DARPA’s next big cybersecurity initiative, unveiled on Monday, is … a program to crowdsource the detection and removal of buggy or malicious lines of code. Possibly as a videogame.
“‘We want to ‘game-ify’ geeky formal verification,’ announced Drew Dean, another DARPA program manager. Dean’s brand-new effort, Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, would replace the expensive, slow model of a single expert or security company taking a fine toothed comb to a bit of software, line by line. Instead, Dean wants to turn the hunt for, say, a buffer overflow vulnerability (which allows a hacker to insert to insert malicious code when all the programmer meant to ask for was a password) into a kind of game.”
Read the post here. Read more →
Seventeen years ago, long-time CSE staff member Melody Kadenko’s car was ransacked when she was on a camping trip.
This week, construction workers who were demolishing the Elwha River Dam as part of a salmon habitat restoration project found her purse – along with all of its contents!
Did she try the Dentyne? You’ll have to ask her yourself.
See a KING5 News report here. Read more →
“After reviewing hundreds of applications from talented women engineers around the world, we now have the final list of [20] amazing women to receive full scholarships to this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Portland, Oregon.”
Congratulations Melissa, and thank you Facebook! Announcement here. Read more →
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON!!!!!
This synthetic biology student competition has taken place annually since 2003.
Read about the championship competition here. See the members of the UW team here. Team wiki here. UW Today article here. GeekWire here. Read more →
Susan and some of her Ph.D. alums
Randy Katz celebrates Susan
Saturday marked the retirement celebration for long-time UW CSE professor Susan Eggers.
Susan, a leading computer architect and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, was honored by CSE faculty and staff, former students, her Berkeley Ph.D. advisor Randy Katz (Susan was Randy’s second Ph.D. student; his first, Gaetano Borriello, is also on the UW CSE faculty), and former Berkeley graduate school colleagues including Jim Larus.
Thank you, Susan, for all you’ve done to make UW CSE a special place.
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