Finally, the big time! A Reader’s Digest article titled “How to Hide Anything” describes “19 ingenious new ways to conceal everything from your personal info on the Internet to a few extra pounds on your hips.”
#4, after “Kitchen Problems,” “A Few Extra Pounds,” and “A Few Extra Years,” is “Personal Info on your Laptop,” which includes a description of the UW CSE and UCSD Adeona software.
#7 (with “Anxiety” and “Your Medical Identity” intervening) is “Your Tracks Online,” which includes a description of the UW CSE and ICSI Web Integrity Checker.
Shortly thereafter we came to “Bad Breath” and didn’t have the courage to read further. But you can, here. Read more →
CSE’s Zoran Popovic and his UW Biochemistry colleague David Baker are interviewed on NPR’s “Studio 360” regarding their protein folding game “Foldit.”
“It turns out that humans are a lot smarter at this than supercomputers … As Studio 360’s Sarah Lilley discovered, it’s a lot more fun than it sounds.”
Listen to the complete interview here. Help science by playing the game here. Read more →
CSE professor Richard Ladner has received the 2009 University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award, “presented to a faculty or staff member to honor extensive local and/or national and international service.” Richard was recognized for his decades-long efforts focused on under-represented groups, particularly the deaf-blind community.
Congratulations Richard! Read more →
An Xconomy post on a symposium on “Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field” held in conjunction with a regional meeting of the National Academy of Engineering organized by CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
Xconomy article here.
Symposium agenda and presentations here. Read more →
Xconomy interviews Maria Klawe, a new addition to the Board of Directors of Microsoft Corporation.
Klawe, the President of Harvey Mudd College, is a computer scientist who was previously Dean of Engineering at Princeton University, Vice President and CS head at the University of British Columbia, and a group leader at IBM Research.
Klawe makes a number of interesting comments on innovation in the Pacific Northwest. “I had an interesting conversation with Google. Google wanted to invest more in the Northwest corridor because they were getting better work out of that area than any other site around the world. It’s partly the presence of really good universities, like UW and UBC.”
She also comments on UW CSE’s role in helping to strengthen UBC’s computer science program. “UW and UBC both deliberately built a culture of support. Take any faculty member there, and you’ll get a good human being.”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is quoted: “‘She’s impatient and persistent in the best sense – she wants things to be done right, and she wants them to be done right now. She’s very strong on gender equity, which will be good medicine for Microsoft — although she’s by no means a one-issue person. Her only idiosyncrasy is that she paints watercolors during meetings.'” Read more →
UW CSE graduate student Tamara Denning has been named one of ten winners of the inaugural Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship. Congratulations Tamara! Read more →
The January/February 2009 issue of IEEE Micro is a Special Issue containing the sixth annual “Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.” Quoting from the Guest Editors’ Introduction, “This issue has become an important tradition in the computer architecture community, and one of the most important forms of recognition of research excellence.”
Two of the 12 papers selected for this prestigious recognition were authored by UW CSE’s Luis Ceze: “Atom-Aid: Detecting and Surviving Atomicity Violations” and “SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization.” UW CSE second-year graduate students Brandon Lucia and Joseph Devietti and UW CSE affiliate professor Karin Strauss were among Ceze’s co-authors. Read more →
On the evening of Wednesday February 25, more than 50 UW CSE undergraduates participated in a Technical Interview Coaching event held in the atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Students spent 20 minutes with each of 3 company representatives in “mock interview” sessions, learning what companies look for in interviews. Our thanks to engineers from Amazon.com, Eggsprout, Google, and Microsoft for participating in this event! Read more →
James Lee
UW CSE faculty member James Lee has received a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards available to younger faculty in the sciences. James is UW CSE’s 16th Sloan Research Fellowship recipient.
[Coverage in University Week is here. -SMR] Read more →
Pavan Vaswani
At a February 23rd reception at the home of University of Washington President Mark Emmert, CSE’s Pavan Vaswani will be recognized as the University of Washington Junior Medalist — the top student in last year’s junior class (of 7,000+ students). Pavan knows the drill — last year he was UW’s Sophomore Medalist. Congratulations Pavan! (University Week article here.) Read more →
