Franzi Roesner
The story includes interviews with UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner and Ed Lazowska.
(Speaking only for myself, the article completely ignored the tenor of a 1-hour conversation and an email exchange — it’s a crappy hatchet-job article where the reporter had an agenda and ignored counterbalancing input. Read it here if you must.)
(Franzi says “Speaking for myself, I agree.”) Read more →
Barbara Mones (along with all of the participants in her 2008 Animation Capstone) signs posters of the UW CSE animated short “Kings” in the lobby of the SIFF Theater following its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 21st.
UW students from the most recent three years of the UW CSE Animation Capstone joined hundreds of other SIFF attendees at the premiere. The showing (which included a dozen other animated shorts) was a sellout; a second SIFF showing has been scheduled for June 6.
Congratulations to the entire team — and to the long line of UW students in the Animation Capstone who have produced amazing work each year! Read more →
John Zahorjan
Gaetano Borriello
Anup Rao
Luis Ceze
Dan Grossman
This year, the UW CSE ACM student chapter replaced the traditional faculty dunk tank with a faculty pie toss. Lots of good licks were had by all.
Victims included professors Dan “Was That Really Your Best Shot?” Grossman; Luis “I Think I May Have Messed My Pants” Ceze; Anup “Maybe I Should Have Given An Easier Final Exam In CSE 421” Rao; Gaetano “Take Him Out With The Trash, He’s Already Bagged” Borriello; and John “This Was My Only Clean Shirt” Zahorjan.
Photos by Ed “On The Smart Side of the Lens” Lazowska.
Other photographs of the event, by a real photographer (Bruce Hemingway) with a real camera, here. Read more →
This year’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“The Oakland Conference”) marked the presentation of a paper describing a UW / UCSD collaboration on automotive security and privacy, and also the debut of the UW CSE security group t-shirt.
In the photo (you can tell from the background that it’s really Oakland …): Roxana Geambasu (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tammy Denning (UW CSE Ph.D. student), David Molnar (MSR, teaching in UW CSE), Alexei Czeskis (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Franzi Roesner (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Stefan Savage (UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, now UCSD CSE faculty), Steve Checkoway (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UCSD CSE Ph.D. student), Damon McCoy (UW CSE Ph.D. intern, now UCSD CSE postdoc), Karl Koscher (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tadayoshi Kohno (UW CSE faculty and UCSD CSE Ph.D. alumnus), Gabriel Maganis (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UCD Ph.D. student), Charlie Reis (UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, now Google Seattle), Miro Enev (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Vitaly Shmatikov (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UT Austin faculty). Read more →
New Scientist reports on two recent results in robotics, including work by UW CSE’s Peter Henry and collaborators Christian Vollmer, Brian Ferris, and Dieter Fox.
“Rather than pre-programming fixed instructions, the team thinks it’s simpler to drop a robot untrained into the real world but equip it with the smarts to study and mimic the behaviour of those around them. They have developed an algorithm that allows a virtual robot to navigate a crowd as a human might by first monitoring how the properties of the crowd – density and flow – affect the way virtual crowd members move through the throng.”
Read the New Scientist article here. See the Crowd Navigation project web page here. Read more →
Mayor Mike McGinn will celebrate Facebook’s opening of a Seattle engineering office — their first outside the Bay Area — at a City Hall ceremony on May 18. In addition to the Mayor, speakers will include UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Greg Badros (Facebook’s Director of Engineering), UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, and Ari Steinberg (Manager of Engineering and head of Facebook’s Seattle office).
Attracting engineering R&D operations to Seattle is critical to Seattle’s evolution as one of the nation’s great technology hubs.
Seattle PI coverage of the event in Monica Guzman’s “Big Blog” here. TechFlash coverage of the event here. Seattle Times here. Read more →
Five junior faculty from across UW were honored today for national recognition received this year. Two of the five were from CSE: Luis Ceze (Microsoft New Faculty Fellow) and James Lee (Sloan Research Fellow).
Overheard at the event: Provost Phyllis Wise to James: “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Phyllis Wise, the Provost.” James, in response: “Actually, we’ve met, when you visited our department to gently deliver bad news.”
Congratulations to Luis and James! Read more →
Each week, the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium give visibility to a “Computing Research Highlight of the Week.” This week, it’s the PhotoCity project and “virtual capture-the-flag game” led by UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and Cornell’s Noah Snavely (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum).
See the post (with links to the project website) here. Read more →
Eric Arendt, a dual major in CSE and EE (with a minor in African Studies!), has been named one of two recipients of the 2010 University of Washington Dean’s Medal in Engineering.
Eric is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Kappa Nu. He has received multiple scholarships, and he has served as a TA and as TA Coordinator in CSE.
Eric’s nomination read, in part: “Eric is a top performer in EE and CSE. He has traveled the world. He is broadly educated; he can talk intelligently and passionately on a broad range of topics and issues. His balance and his maturity both are extraordinary.”
College of Engineering announcement here.
Congratulations Eric! Read more →
The New York Times reports on work by UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno, UCSD professor (and UW CSE Ph.D.) alumnus) Stefan Savage, and their students.
“Automobiles, which will be increasingly connected to the Internet in the near future, could be vulnerable to hackers just as computers are now, two teams of computer scientists are warning in a paper to be presented next week.
“The scientists say that they were able to remotely control braking and other functions, and that the car industry was running the risk of repeating the security mistakes of the PC industry.
“’We demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input — including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on,’ they wrote in the report, ‘Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile.’”
Read the article here. Read the research paper here. Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security here.
Other coverage: New Scientist, Technology Review, PC World, cnet, TechFlash interview, UPI, The Register, Popular Science, Discover Magazine. Read more →