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.!
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“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.”
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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.
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Each year the University of Washington College of Engineering bestows “Community of Innovators Awards” in seven categories.
This year, CSE Ph.D. student Jon Froehlich received the “Student Innovator — Research” award, and long-time CSE staff member Carol Matsumoto received the “Staff Innovator — Classified” award. They will be recognized at a College-wide ceremony on June 1.
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The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, inaugurated in 2006, recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. Jim Gray.
Chris Re, a 2009 UW CSE Ph.D. alum, has been recognized as the winner of the 2010 award. Chris — now a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (“The Other UW,” as we call each other) — completed his dissertation under UW CSE professor Dan Suciu.
Gerome Miklau, also a student of Dan Suciu’s and now a professor at UMass – Amherst, received the inaugural award in 2006. Nilesh Dalvi, also a student of Dan’s and now at Yahoo! Research, received one of two Honorable Mentions in 2008.
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Xconomy interviews tech leaders on the impact of UW President Mark Emmert’s departure to head the NCAA.
“‘Mark has been an excellent president in many ways. He will be a superb head of the NCAA. This is a huge loss for UW,’ said Ed Lazowska, a professor of computer science and engineering. ‘At the same time, I feel jilted. Those of us who have spent large parts of our careers at UW feel a great loyalty to the institution — it’s about UW, not about us.'”
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Each year, Microsoft bestows three “Technical Recognition Awards”:
- “Career Achievement” for exceptional and lasting contributions that span a lifetime.
- “Outstanding Technical Achievement” to a team for a high-impact contribution.
- “Outstanding Technical Leadership” for spearheading a breakthrough initiative.
As with many awards, the Microsoft Technical Recognition Awards involve both recognition and a prize. An innovative aspect is that the prize is given to a charitable organization designated by the individual.
This year, Russ Arun was honored with the Outstanding Technical Leadership Award. We’re extremely grateful that Russ and his wife Radhika chose to direct a portion of their prize to UW Computer Science & Engineering. Congratulations to Russ, and thanks to Russ and Radhika.
The Microsoft Technical Recognition Awards are now in their fourth year, and in each of those years, one of the recipients has directed a portion of his prize to UW CSE!
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“Reverse Traceroute,” a paper describing a UW CSE network measurement innovation, has been named the “Best Paper” of this year’s USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI). The paper was authored by UW CSE graduate students Ethan Katz-Bassett and Harsha Madhyastha (now a postdoc at UCSD); UW CSE undergraduates Justine Sherry, Colin Scott, and Peter van Wesep; UW CSE faculty members Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson; and University of Minnesota graduate student Vijay Kumar Adhikar.
Traceroute is the most widely used Internet diagnostic tool today. Network operators use it to help identify routing failures, path inflation, and router misconfigurations. Researchers use it to map the Internet, predict performance, geolocate routers, and classify the performance of ISPs. However, traceroute has long had a fundamental limitation that affects all these applications: it does not provide reverse path information. Although various public traceroute servers across the Internet provide some visibility, no general method exists for determining a reverse path from an arbitrary destination, without control of that destination. Reverse Traceroute addresses this longstanding limitation. Read more →
