“Online search and information discovery are being transformed before our eyes … A lot of the action is happening around Seattle … So get your tough questions ready for our panel, which will feature Brian Bershad from Google, Harry Shum from Microsoft (Bing), Steve Hall from Vulcan Capital, and Oren Etzioni from UW, Madrona Venture Group, and Farecast (acquired by Microsoft last year). Ed Lazowska will moderate the discussion …”
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Chandu Thekkath
Gaetano Borriello
Professor Gaetano Borriello is the latest UW CSE faculty member to be named a Fellow of the ACM.
ACM is the major professional society in computer science. Roughly 1% of ACM’s members are elevated to the rank of Fellow. Gaetano is the 14th UW CSE faculty member to be named an ACM Fellow.
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Chandu Thekkath, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, also was named an ACM Fellow this year. Read more →
Craig's CSE Distinguished Lecture
Congratulating Anna Karlin
Faculty roundtable
Undergraduate student roundtable
Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, visited UW CSE as part of a four-campus swing in November 2009. Craig met with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, with UW President Mark Emmert, with a panel of undergraduate students, and with a panel of faculty members. He spoke to a packed house at Kane Hall, and prior to his talk, congratulated UW CSE professor Anna Karlin on being named to the Microsoft Endowed Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering. (Photographs by Bruce Hemingway, UW CSE.) Read more →
Each year at UW CSE’s Industrial Affiliates Meeting, our friends at Madrona Venture Group recognize the most “entrepreneurially interesting” graduate student research presentations.
This year, a truly interdisciplinary team of students won the Madrona Prize. CSE Ph.D. students Jon Froehlich and Sidhant Gupta, EE Ph.D. students Eric Larson and Gabe Cohn, and MechE undergraduate Tim Campbell were honored on their work on sustainability sensing. Professors Shwetak Patel, James Landay, and James Fogarty have been closely collaborating on this effort.
Three runners up were recognized: Roxana Geambasu and Amit Levy for Vanish (self-destructing digital data), Ethan Katz-Bassett for Reverse Traceroute, and Brandon Lucia and Joe Devietti for Deterministic Multiprocessing. Read more →
Following in Marty’s footStepps, UW CSE’s Wendy Chisholm is featured as the Seattle PI‘s “Geek of the Week.”
“I believe that through design and technology we can change the world. We can change how society views ‘disabilities’ – we all need tools to do things. Why do we discriminate against some people because they need different tools? There is no ‘us’ or ‘them.’ We’re all here on spaceship earth together and we’re interconnected. None of us are truly independent and the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can start helping each other and make it a better place for all of us.”
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Adrian Sampson
Michael Bayne
Peter Hornyak
Franzi Roesner
TechFlash interviews UW CSE graduate students Franzi Roesner, Peter Hornyak, Michael Bayne, and Adrian Sampson regarding their experiences with the Amazon.com Kindle DX educational pilot project.
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Xconomy reports on Mundie’s themes. Hear his talk in Kane 120 on Thursday at 4:15. Read the post here. Read more →
The Seattle Times reports on Craig Mundie’s university speaking tour, which concludes with a talk sponsored by UW CSE on Thursday November 5th at 4:15 in Kane 120. Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, will speak on “Re-Thinking Computing.” Earlier in the day, he will meet with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, UW President Mark Emmert, a faculty panel, and a student panel.
Read the article here.
TechFlash article on Craig’s talk here. Read more →
OVP Venture Partner’s Mark Ashida writes in Xconomy about the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting, particularly the panel discussion on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital” which featured Mark, Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group), Ron Howell (WRF Capital), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), Cam Myhrvold (Ignition Partners), and was moderated by CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
“The University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Affiliates day is one of the most fun and rewarding days of the year for me as venture investor and geek. It involves a showcase of projects and research areas by professors and students and is a festival of creativity, new ideas, and engaged smart people. It is a day my colleagues and I look forward to every year …”
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UW CSE’s Vanish project on self-destructing data is featured in an NPR piece on privacy in the digital age.
“Roxana Geambasu is a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she’s been working on self-destructing data. The simplest application is a form of e-mail that comes with a finite life span.
“‘After the time out, you will never be able to read the message again,’ she says.
“The system is called Vanish, and it works by encrypting your data — e-mails, photos, Facebook posts — then placing the decryption ‘keys’ in several places around the Internet. The keys are readily available to anyone for a few hours. But as the keys disappear, the message rots away. All copies become unreadable; even the copies made along the way — at the Internet service provider, at the National Security Agency, wherever.”
Read and hear the story here. Vanish project information here. Read more →