UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos has been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Pedro, an expert in data mining and machine learning, joins Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld as UW CSE AAAI Fellows.
AAAI elected 8 new Fellows this year — indicative of the prestige of the award. Read the AAAI press release here.
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Tapan Parikh
Loren Carpenter
Ed Lazowska, Tapan Parikh, Loren Carpenter
Each year, the University of Washington College of Engineering recognizes the achievements of five extraordinary alums with “Diamond Awards.”
This year, two of the five awardees were CSE alums. At a ceremony on Friday night, 1976 M.S. alum Loren Carpenter received the Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence for his many contributions to digital animation, and 2007 Ph.D. alum Tapan Parikh received the Early Career Diamond Award for his work in harnessing technology to empower people in the developing world.
Wonderful videos were prepared describing the accomplishments of both Loren and Tapan. Tapan’s video is here — Pixar doesn’t want you to see Loren’s.
Tapan and Loren each made wonderful acceptance remarks. Tapan’s remarks are here; Loren’s are here.
Congratulations to Loren and Tapan! Read more →
UW CSE’s Jon Froehlich and Shwetak Patel describe HydroSense in this Discovery News interview.
HydroSense is a pressure-based sensor that automatically determines water usage activity and flow down to the source (e.g., dishwasher, laundry, shower) from a single non-intrusive installation point.
Watch this great interview here. Read more →
From the Seattle Times:
“Facebook, the hugely popular social-media service, is planning to open an engineering office here. Announcement of the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s intentions came Wednesday out of Mayor Mike McGinn’s office …
“‘We are aggressively trying to get the best of the best technical talent around the world,’ said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Facebook.
“In looking for places to find that talent, Schroepfer said, ‘Seattle popped to the top of the list.’ Along with quality-of-life issues, he pointed to Microsoft, Amazon.com, Boeing and other ‘magnets of talent.’ He also noted that the University of Washington ‘in particular is a well-regarded computer-science university.'”
Read the full article here. See the Facebook Seattle office announcement here. Read more →
Xconomy reports on the OVP Venture Partners Tech Summit. “‘It bothers me that my car is much better instrumented than I am. You can go to a mechanic and he’ll plug a diagnostic tool in and will tell you everything that happened in the past six months,’ Lazowska said. ‘On the rare occasion when I visit a doctor, it starts with something like ‘Where does it hurt?’.'”
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TechFlash reports: “Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels, University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska, Institute for Systems Biology President Lee Hood and others gathered today in downtown Seattle for the annual OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit. And while the attendees came from a wide range of industries and sectors, there was one concurrent theme that emerged from the event. The future of computing, drug research and other industries revolves around one word: ‘data.'”
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CRA-W — the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research — has named UW CSE Ph.D. alum A.J. Bernheim Brush, a researcher at Microsoft Research, as one of two recipients of the 2010 Borg Early Career Award. A.J. studies human-computer interaction with a focus on computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) and ubiquitous computing. She enjoys investigating how technology can help people and families with everyday challenges including coordination, awareness, and energy conservation.
The award honors the late Anita Borg, who was an early member of CRA-W and an inspiration for her commitment in increasing the participation of women in computing research.
Congratulations A.J.!
Read the announcement here. Read more →
“Paul Mikesell, who co-founded Isilon Systems with Sujal Patel in 2001, is officially announcing a new company today called Clustrix which is trying to bring some of the same concepts that Isilon pioneered with digital storage to complex databases. And Mikesell, a University of Washington computer science grad and a former RealNetworks employee, has lined up some financial support from the same folks who backed Isilon …”
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The Seattle Times reports on Monday’s NAE Grand Challenges Summit, hosted by the University of Washington at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle.
“At the Grand Challenges Summit in Seattle today, the University of Washington’s Ed Lazowska … described the advances that computer science will bring to scientific research. ‘You’re going to see a revolution in discovery in the next 10 years,’ said Lazowska … He opened a discussion of ‘eScience’ and new systems for doing research with massive amounts of data, a ‘looming data tsunami’ that’s pushing scientists to develop shared computing clusters at schools and ultrafast dedicated Internet lines between research centers.”
Read the entire article here.
TechFlash reports on Lazowska’s session: “Facebook’s hangover detection, and other revolutions in science.” Read more →
The ACM PODS (Principles of Database Systems) Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award was established in 2007 and was awarded for the first time in 2008. It is awarded every year to a paper published in the PODS proceedings ten years prior “that had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade.”
The winner of the 2010 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award is UW CSE professor Dan Suciu, for his paper “Typechecking for XML Transformers,” co-authored with Tova Milo and Victor Vianu and published in PODS 2000.
Congratulations Dan! Read more →