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.
Congratulations to Jon and Carol! Read more →
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.
Congratulations to Chris, and (wow!) to Dan! Read more →
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”:
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!
Thanks to Microsoft, and to our many friends there! Read more →
“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 →
Tom Anderson rises to #1! Hank Levy and Brian Bershad remain in the top 5. Ed Lazowska clings by his fingernails to #10. What’s the methodology? We don’t give a rip — we think it’s fantastic, whatever it is. Let Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and CMU delve into it! Check it out here. Cleaned-up pdf, saved for posterity, here.
( Hal Perkins’s observation on the value of citation statistics as a measure of scientific worth: “Some Turing Award winners on that list: Liskov at 34, Lampson at 38, Gray at 43, Dijkstra at 210, Knuth at 372, Hoare at 399.”) Read more →
UW CSE’s Anna Cavender, completing her Ph.D. with professor Richard Ladner, has been awarded the 2010 University of Washington Graduate School Medal.
The Graduate School Medal is given annually “to recognize Ph.D. candidates whose academic expertise and social awareness are integrated in a way that demonstrates an exemplary commitment to the University and its larger community.” UW CSE’s Vibha Sazawal, now a professor at the University of Maryland, received the UW Graduate School Medal in 2004.
Congratulations Anna! Read more →
Lydia Chilton
Kristi Morton
Each year, roughly 30 top women enrolled in computer science graduate programs in the US are named Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars. Among the 2010 Anita Borg recipients are UW CSE’s Lydia Chilton and Kristi Morton.
Anita Borg, who received her Ph.D. from Courant, was a research engineer for Nixdorf, DEC WRL, and Xerox PARC, and also was a hugely effective advocate for the inclusion of women in technology fields (she launched the Systers online community, co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and established the Institute for Women and Technology, among many other accomplishments; she was a mentor to hundreds and an inspiration to thousands). Anita died of cancer in 2003.
Kristi is a UW CSE Ph.D. student working with Magda Balazinska and Dan Grossman on databases and programming languages. She’s an alumna of Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin, and a former employee of Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. She’s the drummer in the CSE band on those rare occasions when it’s allowed to play.
Lydia is a UW CSE Ph.D. student working with James Fogarty and James Landay on human computer interaction. She’s an alumna of MIT and a Trekkie.
UW CSE graduate student Juliet Bernstein and UW CSE undergraduate student Sanjana Prasain were named Finalists and also received scholarship awards.
Congratulations Lydia, Kristi, Juliet, and Sanjana!! Read more →
Dean Tullsen
Hank Levy
Susan Eggers
Each year the International Symposium on Computer Architecture – the leading conference in the field – bestows the ISCA Influential Paper Award on “the paper from the ISCA Proceedings 15 years earlier that has had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the intervening years.”
The 2010 award, for a paper presented at ISCA in 1995, has been bestowed on the paper “Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism” by Susan Eggers, Hank Levy, and their Ph.D. student Dean Tullsen (a professor at UCSD since receiving his UW Ph.D. in 1996). The award will be presented at ISCA 2010 in Saint-Malo, France, in June.
Simultaneous Multithreading allows independent threads to issue instructions to multiple functional units in a single cycle, combining facilities available in both superscalar and multithreaded architectures. It was commercialized by Intel as HyperThreading.
Congratulations to Susan, Hank, and Dean!
(The inaugural ISCA Influential Paper Award was presented in 2003 (for ISCA 1988) to UW CSE’s Jean-Loup Baer and his Ph.D. student Wen-Hann Wang (currently Vice President of Intel Labs and director of Circuits and System Research for Intel Corporation) for their paper “On the Inclusion Properties for Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies.”) Read more →
The Sunday New York Times profiles UW CSE alumnus Jeremy Jaech – co-founder of Aldus and Visio, and currently CEO of Verdiem.
“Now I am running Verdiem, which has 55 employees and provides software to reduce energy consumption of PC networks. The company monitors, measures and manages information technology energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions.
“I believe that Verdiem, like Aldus’s desktop publishing and Visio’s diagramming on the PC, is another opportunity to create a new market, this time in green computing. There’s a need there that no one’s filled yet.
“My favorite nonprofit I work with today is the University of Washington, which is a fantastic research institution and has an excellent basketball team, too.”
Read this wonderful profile here. Read more →