Allen School News Archive

The University of Washington is one of seven colleges and universities participating in a pilot project assessing the suitability of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX electronic reader as a textbook and reprint replacement.  In this AP article, UW CSE graduate students Todd Schiller and Franzi Roesner are quoted.  Read it here. Read more →

UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska writes in Xconomy about the remarkable performance of the University of Washington in securing research funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“Why R&D as part of the stimulus? Because it employs people (that’s what we do with federal research grant funding), but more importantly, because it lays the foundation for America’s world leadership.”

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We don’t have a clue about the methodology … and we’re not gonna question it!

According to Microsoft Academic Search, four of the top ten authors in the Operating Systems field are from UW CSE:  Tom Anderson, Hank Levy, Brian Bershad, and Ed Lazowska.

(Others in the top ten:  John Ousterhout (Berkeley -> Sun -> Scriptics -> Electric Cloud -> Stanford), Satya (CMU), Frans Kaashoek (MIT), Dave Patterson (Berkeley), Anoop Gupta (Stanford -> Microsoft), and Peter Druschel (Rice -> Max Planck Institute).  UW CSE’s Susan Eggers and John Zahorjan make the top 50, out of 1,000 authors ranked.)

Read all about it … here!  (Cleaned up and saved for posterity here.)

News flash! Hank Levy’s VAXclusters paper has just been added to the SIGOPS Hall of Fame, recognizing the most influential Operating Systems papers appearing in the peer reviewed literature at least ten years in the past!

TechFlash reports on a presentation in UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young of Intellectual Ventures.

“What do you do if you’re a wealthy technologist and are interested in food? Take some classes at the Cordon Bleu, right? Well, if you’re Nathan Myhrvold — former CTO of Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures — you take it a step further. Myhrvold hired a team of 15 people, including a chef from a famous London restaurant, who are helping him write a 1,500-page tome on the science of cooking. Today he showed off his culinary research in a lecture at the University of Washington, and treated the crowd to almond ice cream made with liquid nitrogen.”

Read the full post here.

On-demand video of this terrific presentation here. Read more →

The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have selected UW CSE’s Rome in a Day project as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.

“Several years ago, a collaboration between computer graphics and computer vision researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft yielded Photosynth, a revolution in organizing and navigating digital photographs.

“Now, that same collaboration has yielded Rome In A Day, which reconstructs entire cities from images harvested from the web, in less than a day of computation time per city.”

Read the full post here.  More about the project here. Read more →

“Gary and Pamela Hammer did more than help their son Jeremy find a job when he graduated from the University of Washington three years ago.

“The Hammer family decided that was a good time to start a technology company, employing Jeremy, two of his classmates and another son who had been working at Fluke in Everett.

“Now their company, Kirkland-based Ceton, is releasing a gadget that has caught the imagination of digital-media enthusiasts and could find its way into the homes of millions of cable-TV subscribers within a few years.”

Jeremy Hammer,  Austin Foxley, and Alex Faucher are UW CSE students.

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Xconomy reports on Charles Simonyi’s kickoff of the 2009-10 UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series.

“Simonyi, the father of Microsoft Word and Excel, and now head of Bellevue, WA-based Intentional Software, regaled the crowd of a couple hundred students, faculty, and guests with stories and videos from his second trip to space last March.  Simonyi rode a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), docked and spent some time there, and returned safely to Earth, looking none the worse for wear.  He is an outspoken proponent of space tourism, and he pointed out that Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, is currently making his way aboard the space station as ‘the first clown in space’ (and the seventh space tourist ever).”

Read the whole article here.

UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series here.

On-demand video of this terrific presentation here. Read more →

Voice of San Diego profiles UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and UCSD CSE faculty member Stefan Savage.

“The poster outside the third-floor office in the University of California, San Diego’s computer sciences building depicts Doc Savage, the big-muscled, bald-headed, fearsome-faced comic book hero. Inside the office sits a different Doc Savage.

“Stefan Savage is a pale-faced, 40-year-old, T-shirt-and-shorts-wearing college professor. But in the world of cybercrime fighting — where the strength of your code, not your biceps, is what matters — this Doc Savage cuts quite the imposing figure.”

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TechFlash interviews UW CSE students participating in the Kindle DX academic pilot project.

“At the University of Washington, more than 30 computer science graduate students are taking part in the pilot, and are just receiving their devices. We sat in on a Kindle DX orientation on the UW campus this morning, and talked to a couple students about their expectations for the reader, which they’ll be using in various courses.”

See the article and video here.  Learn more about the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project here. Read more →

UW CSE professor Dan Grossman discusses the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project with KOMO-4 TV news.  Watch the video here.  Learn more about the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project here. Read more →