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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 →

“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.

Congratulations! Read more →

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.

Congratulations to all! Read more →