Widespread press coverage of research by UW CSE professors Luis Ceze, Dan Grossman, and Mark Oskin and UW CSE graduate students Owen Anderson, Tom Bergan, Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia and Nick Hunt.
“Ceze and his colleagues … have developed a way to get modern, multiple-processor computers to behave in predictable ways, by automatically parceling sets of commands and assigning them to specific places. Ceze and several colleagues from the university’s Safe MultiProcessing Architectures (SAMPA) group are presenting their proposed fix for this parallel processing problem next week at the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in Pittsburgh.”
Scientific American here. The Register here. Sifynews here. University Week here. Read more →
Anu Taranath
Scott Hauck
Scott Hauck and Anu Taranath have been recognized with 2010 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Scott, a UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, is a faculty member in UW Electrical Engineering.
Anu, wife of UW CSE professor Raj Rao, is a faculty member in Comparative History of Ideas and in English.
Congratulations to Scott and Anu! Read the announcement here. Read more →
Each year, UW CSE offers a number of “capstone design courses” in a broad range of areas. In these courses, students work in teams to conceive, design, implement, and deploy complete solutions to interesting problems.
As cell phones become more capable with connectivity with the internet and sensors such as cameras, compasses, GPS, and accelerometers, there are opportunities to use them as accessibility or assistive devices. This was the focus of the Accessibility Capstone, taught by professor Richard Ladner. Students worked in teams to create new applications on mobile phones that allow persons with disabilities to accomplish tasks that would be difficult to impossible to do without such applications. (An example would be an application for a blind person that would take a picture of a bar code on a product, decode it, look it up on the internet, then speak the name of the product.)
KOMO-4 TV story here. Photos from the “demo day” here. Course description here. Thanks to our friends at Google for providing Android phones for use in this course!
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UW CSE alum Judy Maleng hosted CSE faculty and students from the early years (when UW CSE was purely a graduate program) to celebrate the 80th birthday of Hellmut Golde, who played an instrumental role in launching UW CSE. Photos of the event are posted here.
The same group convened at Judy’s 7 years ago to celebrate the 80th birthday of Jerre Noe, founding chair of UW CSE. Photos of that event can be seen here.
Our warm thanks go out to Judy for being a key component of the “glue” that keeps “the UW CSE family” together!
Among the faculty and alum attendees at the Golde celebration were Jean-Loup Baer (faculty), Janet Geoffroy (M.S. 1970), Hellmut Golde (faculty), Dick Hamlet (Ph.D. 1971), Bob Herriot (ex-faculty), Garry Kampen (Ph.D. 1973), Tom Kuffel (1970’s CSE ski day participant), Ed Lazowska (faculty), Judy Maleng (M.S. 1971), Margarete Noe (Jerre’s wife), David Notkin (faculty), Gary Sager (Ph.D. 1972), Alan Shaw (faculty), Sally Swedine (M.S. 1971), Steve Tanimoto (faculty), John Torode (Ph.D. 1972), and Mary Zosel (Ph.D. 1971). Read more →
CSE’s Richard Ladner has been selected to deliver the 2010 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture. The event will take place on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. (reception at 5:30 p.m.) in Johnson Hall 102 on the UW campus.
Named in honor of the University of Washington’s first Vice President for the Office of Minority Affairs, the Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture is dedicated to acknowledging the work of UW’s distinguished faculty by spotlighting nationally recognized research focusing on diversity and social justice.
Ladner is being recognized for his outstanding research and service in creating accessible technology for the blind, sight-impaired, deaf, and hearing-impaired. This work has been recognized by a number of national awards.
Congratulations Richard! See the lecture announcement here. Read more →
Beneath their smooth exteriors, modern computers behave in wildly unpredictable ways. UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze, Mark Oskin, and Dan Grossman and UW grad students Owen Anderson, Tom Bergan, Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, and Nick Hunt have found a way to “tame” multiprocessor computers.
“‘With older, single-processor systems, computers behave exactly the same way as long as you give the same commands. Today’s computers are non-deterministic. Even if you give the same set of commands, you might get a different result,’ Ceze said.”
The team has developed a way to get modern, multiple-processor computers to behave in predictable ways, by automatically parceling sets of commands and assigning them to specific places. Sets of commands get calculated simultaneously, so the well-behaved program still runs faster than it would on a single processor.
Read the full UWeek article here. More info on the group’s research is here. Read more →
Google’s new bicycle route mapping feature, launched today, bears a strong UW CSE imprint.
The project was conceived by UW CSE alum Andy Schwerin. Among the 7 engineers on the team were UW CSE alums Scott Shawcroft and Ryan Sturgell. The Site Director of the Google Seattle engineering office, where the work was done, is former UW CSE faculty member Brian Bershad.
Read a Seattle Times article here. Read more →
OneBusAway, a suite of tools to make using public transit easier for King County riders, has won the Washington Technology Industry Association’s 2010 Industry Achievement Award in the category “Best Use of Technology in the Government, Non-Profit, or Education Sector.”
OneBusAway is the passion of UW CSE graduate student Brian Ferris.
Congratulations to Brian and the OneBusAway team! Try it! Read more →
Microsoft ITPAC
Steve Ballmer
CSE Atrium
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, will discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a particular focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. The event will take place on Thursday March 4 at 10 a.m. in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Plentiful open seating and standing room will be available. Please join us for what’s sure to be an interesting talk about the world of tech.
A portable Microsoft datacenter, housed in a cargo container, will be available for tours all day long. Microsoft’s IT Pre-Assembled-Component (ITPAC) is one example of the company’s strategy to modularize the entire datacenter. During the tour, learn about the design decisions and functionality that will power the next generation of technology.
See Microsoft information on the talk, plus webcast information, here. Dan Reed blog post here. Microsoft “Azure cloud science” TechFest web page, including a UW oceanography collaboration, here. TechFlash post here. Xconomy post here.
Maps and directions here. UW webcast information here. Web-archived videos of the event will be linked here and from the Microsoft site.
Following the event: TechFlash post here. Xconomy post here. Seattle Times article here. Seattle PI article here. c|net here. eCommerce Times here. Photographs by Bruce Hemingway here. Photographs by Microsoft here. Read more →
Trinh Huynh
Brandon Lucia
Congratulations to UW CSE’s Brandon Lucia and Trinh Huynh, who have just received IBM Graduate Fellowships! Brandon works on computer architecture with Luis Ceze, and Trinh works with Paul Beame on theoretical computer science. Read more →
