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 →
Xconomy writes:
“Another month gone by in Seattle, another Silicon Valley company has moved in to establish a beachhead for recruiting tech workers. … But all of those companies often wind up chasing the same pool of experienced workers – a pool that Washington state isn’t adding to fast enough by cranking out computer science graduates of its own.
“It’s a situation that can’t be sustained if the region is to maintain its prominence in the tech world. …
“Ed Lazowska, the University of Washington’s Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, says the last sustainable increase in state spending for higher education enrollments was around 1999. …
“‘It kind of sucks that the children of Washington parents can’t get into the University of Washington and pursue a STEM degree because there’s not enough slots,’ says entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech, chairman of the Technology Alliance. ‘But it’s not likely to change any time soon.'”
Read the article here. Read more →
Check out Ed Lazowska’s talk to a University of Washington “Math Day” audience — high school students interested in the mathematical sciences. It’s a quick, fun overview of the field.
Slides are linked here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is one of eight columnists featured in a New York Times “Room for Debate” essay series on education. Lazowska says:
“There are a few facts about education, employability and economic growth that we should keep in mind.
“A balanced education serves you best …
“The further out you are from college graduation, the less your success is attributable to the field in which you majored, and the more your success is attributable to a set of abilities imparted by any top-tier bachelor’s-level education …
“But let us not fool ourselves about what fields offer job opportunities, create jobs for others, and drive the economy …
“So what should today’s college students study in order to stay competitive? My take: A computer science degree is a great preparation for just about any field.”
Read Lazowska’s post, and others, here.
Update: Email received from a senior faculty member in Obstetrics and Gynecology at a top east coast university: “Indeed! I majored in computer science undergrad and then worked at Microsoft for four years (1998-2002) while living in Seattle. Then I moved into epidemiology: computer science is EXCELLENT preparation for (some aspects of) epidemiology. Both the specific skills and the way of thinking through problems that I learned in computer science are broadly applicable.”
Update: See UW CSE alum Sierra Michels Slettvet’s related blog post here. And an interesting comment in ITBusinessEdge here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Anna Karlin and her Stanford grad school classmate Evan Cohn stalled 23 years before getting married. But it finally happened tonight! Read more →
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science is featured in the March 2011 issue of Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine.
“‘We’re focusing not just on scientific discovery games but, in general, games as a primary medium for solving really hard problems that our entire society cares about,’ says Zoran Popović, associate professor at the UW’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and director of the Center for Game Science. ‘Specifically, problems that people alone or computers alone cannot solve. But together they might be able to.'”
Read the article here. Check out some games: Foldit, Refraction. Visit the Center for Game Science here. Read more →
“When Hank Levy, chair of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), walked into a room in early February, he expected to meet with the dean of engineering and the department executive committee for an emergency conference.
“Levy was instead greeted with a champagne celebration when CSE faculty surprised him with news that he had been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), which according to the organization’s website is the highest professional honor given to an engineer. …
“The press release from NAE said that Levy’s ‘contributions to design, implementation, and evaluation of operating systems, distributed systems, and processor architectures’ are the grounds for his election.”
Read the article here. Read more →
The New York Times reports on research by UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, UCSD’s (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Stefan Savage, and their colleagues Steve Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, and Franziska Roesner, which was presented on Friday to the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board.
“Because many of today’s cars contain cellular connections and Bluetooth wireless technology, it is possible for a hacker, working from a remote location, to take control of various features — like the car locks and brakes — as well as to track the vehicle’s location, eavesdrop on its cabin and steal vehicle data, the researchers said. They described a range of potential compromises of car security and safety.
“‘This report explores how hard it is to compromise a car’s computers without having any direct physical access to the car,’ said [UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus] Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego, who is one of the leaders of the research effort.”
Read the article in the Times here. Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security here. An article in Technology Review is here. ComputerWorld covers this research here. Read more →
The Washington Post, in a series of articles on computer science enrollment, features UW CSE’s “Power to Change the World” video.
Read the article here. See all of CSE’s award-winning videos here. Read more →
