GeekWire ran a great story today on a map of tech companies in the Pioneer Square area, produced by Bryan Rush and Stephen Cugier of Colliers. Pretty impressive! Take a look at the map, and read the GeekWire post. And, hats off to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn for his successful efforts to revitalize Pioneer Square! Read more →
Seattle’s Pioneer Square – New center of the tech universe
“Help wanted for tech jobs and our schools: Economy moved on, but education hasn’t kept up in Washington”
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska regarding STEM education in Washington State:
“A document Lazowska gave me has a statement from Washington’s Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education: ‘We will reduce employers’ need to import people with advanced degrees or specialized skills from other states and countries. The best jobs in Washington will go to Washingtonians educated in our colleges and universities.’
“A different report last week found Washington among top 10 states in cuts to higher education.
“We know there’s a problem. What are we going to do about it?”
Read the article here. Learn more about STEM education in Washington State here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten and Affiliate Professor Eric Horvitz elected to National Academy of Engineering
Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and of Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for contributions to the privacy and security of computer systems, and for impact on public policy.” Election to NAE – which has roughly 2,000 members across a dozen fields – is one of the highest professional honors accorded to engineers in academia, industry and government.
Ed received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1993, co-advised by Ed Lazowska and John Zahorjan. A distinguished researcher in computer security and privacy, he recently returned to Princeton after a two-year leave-of-absence to serve as the first Chief Technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Ed will return to UW in June to receive the 2013 Computer Science & Engineering Alumni Achievement Award, along with 1984 Bachelors alumna Anne Dinning.
CSE Affiliate Professor Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist and Co-Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, also was elected to NAE in the 69-member Class of 2013, announced today, “for computational mechanisms for decision making under uncertainty and with bounded resources.”
Congratulations to Ed and Eric! Read the NAE announcement here. Read more →
Microsoft’s Roger Barga on UW’s “Data Science” certificate program
In this terrific new video, Microsoft’s Roger Barga discusses UW’s Certificate Program in “Data Science.”
The certificate, offered in both online and face-to-face versions, is comprised of three courses:
Roger is one of the instructors. Creation of the program was driven by Bill Howe of UW CSE and the eScience Institute. Learn more and watch the video here. Read more →
TerraSwarm Research Center launched
The TerraSwarm Research Center is addressing the huge potential (and the associated risks) of pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors and actuators into our connected world. The center is funded at $27.5 million over five years by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) administered by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Funding comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the SRC industry partners, including Applied Materials, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, Intel Corporation, Micron Technology, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, and United Technologies.
Director of the Center is Edward Lee of UC Berkeley. UW CSE’s Carlos Guestrin and Ben Taskar are the machine learning experts on the Investigator team.
TerraSwarm website here. Press release here. White paper here. Read more →
Foldit wins 2012 Katerva Behavioral Change Award
Foldit – a hugely successful protein folding video game created by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science – has won the 2012 Katerva Behavioral Change Award.
The Katerva Awards shine a global spotlight on the world’s most promising sustainability ideas and serves as a means to gather together the world’s best sustainability innovators. Awards are given in 10 categories. See the announcement of winners here. Read more →
Honoring David Notkin
On February 1 2013, more than 300 members of the UW CSE “extended family” joined in recognizing the contributions of David Notkin at Notkinfest.
A world leader in software engineering, David served as CSE chair from 2001-06, and has been honored with the Boeing Professorship, the Frank and Wilma Bradley Endowed Professorship, and the Frank and Wilma Bradley Endowed Chair.
An extraordinary mentor, David received the University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in 2000. His philosophy about working with students follows that of his own adviser, Nico Habermann: “Focus on the students, since graduating great students means you’ll produce great research, while focusing on the research may or may not produce great students.”
- At Notkinfest, UW CSE announced the establishment of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering. We invite you to join in honoring David by supporting this fellowship. Contributions may be made online here. For stock transfers and pledges, please contact Ed Lazowska (lazowska at cs.washington.edu).
- Notkinfest photographs by Bruce Hemingway:
- Notkinfest photographs by Bill Griswold (to download just a few, show the photo you want in the big view, mouse over it, look for the “flyout” menu to appear, and click the yellow folder with the down-arrow over it; to download all 356MB, click here)
April 22 2013: David Notkin succumbed to cancer at 3:30 a.m. Read more →
UW Daily on UW CSE’s FoneAstra project
“The capabilities of mobile devices have been expanding to serve purposes far beyond communication. More recently, this trend has centered around creating smartphone applications for medical purposes.
“A project out of the UW uses new technology to monitor safe breast milk pasteurization with a mobile device. This app, called FoneAstra, was developed by UW computer science and engineering (CSE) graduate student Rohit Chaudhri in collaboration with the Seattle-based nongovernmental organization PATH and the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE).”
“With a portable receipt printer, an android phone, and a temperature probe, hospital staff are now able to track the milk and regulate the temperature during pasteurization for around $700 instead of costing between $10,000 and $50,000.”
Read more here. Learn more about the project here. Read more →
Another CACM “Research Highlight” for UW CSE’s Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
When University of Texas faculty stars Doug Burger and Kathryn McKinley moved to Microsoft Research, they brought with them graduate student Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, who transferred to UW CSE and added CSE’s Luis Ceze as an advisor.
Hadi has had an amazing streak of high-profile results recently:
- A “Research Highlight” in CACM: “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval” (full paper from ASPLOS here), July 2012.
- Two “Research Highlights” in IEEE Micro: “Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling” (full paper from ISCA here), and “What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software?” (the “Looking Back …” paper), both May/June 2012.
And now, another:
- A “Research Highlight” in CACM: “Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era“. (Introduction to the paper by IBM’s Pradeep Bose here.)
Congratulations again, Hadi! Read more →
Seattle Weekly: “Ouch: Washington Among Top Ten States in Cuts to Higher Education”
… and the 4- years were cut much more deeply than the 2-years …
… and the research institutions were cut much more deeply than the other 4-years …
… and UW was hit worst of all.
Read the article here. Read more →