For a number of years, Mark Hill and Guri Sohi of the University of Wisconsin have maintained an informal “Hall of Fame” for the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, based on the (admittedly imperfect) metric of having co-authored 8 or more papers that have appeared in this premier venue for computer architecture research.
CSE professor Luis Ceze and CSE affiliate professor (and Microsoft Research staff member, as well as Luis’s partner) Karin Strauss have just been “inducted.”
Stanford, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin each have 5 members. Microsoft Research has 4. The University of Texas has 3. HP Labs, UC Berkeley, UCSB, and the University of Colorado each have 2. CMU, MIT, and a dozen other institutions each have one. See the list here. Read more →
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has received the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award – presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation, worldwide, in computer science – for his MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems.”
Congratulations to Shyam, and to his MIT Ph.D. advisor Dina Katabi!
Read the ACM press release here.
(UW CSE just got five papers into SIGCOMM 2013, two of which were co-authored by Shyam!)
Scrolling back through time:
- Just last year, UW CSE Ph.D. student Seth Cooper (now the Creative Director of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science) received the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
- Two years before that, UW CSE Ph.D. student Noah Snavely (now a faculty member at Cornell) was the Honorable Mention recipient in the 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Aseem Agarwala (now a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems) was the Honorable Mention recipient in the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.
- UW CSE Ph.D. student AnHai Doan (now a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison) received the 2003 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
- UW CSE professor Venkat Guruswami (now at Carnegie Mellon – boo!) received the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
- UW CSE Ph.D. students William Chan (now deceased) and Mike Ernst (now a UW CSE professor, returned after receiving tenure at MIT) were the Honorable Mention recipients in 2000 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Anne Condon (now a faculty member at the University of British Columbia) was the Honorable Mention recipient in the 1988 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.
- UW CSE professor Carl Ebeling (now at Altera) was the Honorable Mention recipient in the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.
Go team! Read more →
On Saturday, UW CSE demonstrated that ice cream and Java go hand in hand! Around 50 local students who will be taking the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam came to UW to eat ice cream and do some last-minute review.
Thanks to the many UW students and faculty who led review sessions on different AP CS topics and who took pictures! And good luck to all the high school students on the AP exam!
See photographs of the event here. Check out DawgBytes, UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, here. Read more →
UW CSE professor Martin Tompa and his Ph.D. alum Jeremy Buhler (now a faculty member at Washington University) have received the 2013 “Test of Time” Award from RECOMB – the Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology – for their paper “Finding Motifs Using Random Projections” which was presented at RECOMB 2001 and published in full length in the Journal of Computational Biology.
Congratulations to Martin and Jeremy! Read more →
The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition recognizes undergraduates in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Universities may nominate as many as four students annually.
In the 2013 competition (results announced today), three UW CSE nominees were recognized – extending UW CSE’s record of having the largest number of students recognized in the most recent ten years of this competition!
Congratulations to 2013 national winner Matt Bryan, and to honorable mentions Kevin Clark and Grace Muzny! Also to Megan Torkildson from UW’s Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, who also received honorable mention. Read more →
Farnam Jahanian, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will visit UW CSE on Thursday May 23.
Dr. Jahanian will deliver the CSE Colloquium at 3:30 in EEB 105: “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication.”
Please join us! Additional information here. Read more →
More than 50 Seattle-area UW CSE alums met for happy hour at Feierabend (South Lake Union) on Thursday May 2 – along with faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska.
Didn’t hear about it? Read your damned email, or sign up for our Facebook group! Read more →
The newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. Google has partnered with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in higher education and throughout their careers.
Incredibly, two of the eight winners of inaugural Google SVA Scholarships are UW CSE students: undergraduate student Mike Hotan (USA Special Forces 2008-present) and graduate student Jim Youngquist (USAF, 2002-08). (Interesting aside: Jim is currently Mike’s TA in the undergraduate Operating Systems course.)
Congratulations to Mike and Jim! Read more →
The UW Daily memorializes UW CSE professor David Notkin:
“David Notkin was known by many as a willing mentor and a leader in the field of software engineering. His bushy beard and wide smile made him a face of the department.
“His talent, charisma, and investment in his students made him an integral part of the UW Computer Science & Engineering community.
“Notkin passed away last Monday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer.”
Read more here. Read more →
The work of Josh Smith (UW CSE and EE) is described:
“But how do you charge something so small? ‘The vision of blanketing the world with smart sensors is very compelling,’ says Joshua Smith, head of the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. ‘But a lot of sensor networks researchers found themselves surrounded by mountains of depleted batteries and dead sensor nodes.’
“So, like microscopic Robinson Crusoes, the motes will live off the power they can scavenge from their surroundings. A mote near a light source might use a tiny solar panel, while a mote running somewhere with greater temperature extremes can be built to tap into that, by converting the heat energy that flows between hot and cold into electricity.”
Read more here. Read more →
