An Xconomy post by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska – see full post here.
“In Washington, higher education is slated for far deeper cuts than in any other high-tech state. In other words, a system that already disadvantages smaller companies and kids who grow up here is going to get far worse.
“This craziness could be addressed by making different budgetary choices (as all other high-tech states seem to be doing), and/or by allowing tuition to rise in order to avoid reducing capacity (UW tuition, even with an increase double what the Governor and the State Senate have proposed to allow, would still be the lowest among Global Challenge State peer institutions – less than $8,000 per year for a top-tier education; federal and institutional financial aid increases would maintain affordability).
“You’ve got to decide what sort of future you want for your kids and your state. And then tell your legislators.”
See the full post here. Read more →
The Seattle Times profiles UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka in Pacific Northwest magazine.
“At the University of Washington, MacArthur ‘genius’ award-winner Yoky Matsuoka is leading the effort to build robotic hands and other devices that will take commands directly from the human brain — and revolutionizing the opportunities for people with disabilities to function more fully.”
See the complete Seattle Times article here, and a great set of 10 accompanying photographs here.
See Yoky’s web page here, the UW Neurobotics Laboratory web page here, and the new YokyWorks web page here. Read more →
Xconomy profiles, yet again, UW CSE startup Skytap. “‘One of the key attributes of Skytap is that they give you cloud computing with your existing apps, whereas the others require you to develop specially for their restricted model of computing,’ says Ignition partner Brad Silverberg. ‘It means you can go cloud computing right now.'” Read the full post here. Read more →
Oren Etzioni
Matt McIlwain
Celebrating VentureWire’s 10th anniversary, The Venture Capital Dispatch blog (part of the Wall Street Journal) recently asked a panel of venture capitalists to share their favorite memories of business in the past decade or so. Matt McIlwain, one of our friends at Madrona Venture Group, talks about CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Farecast.
Read the full article here. Read more →
CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka, recently interviewed by KPLU radio’s Keith Seinfeld, talks about her research on prosthetic hands. The human hand has been one of the most difficult limbs for medicine to replace. War veterans are learning the hard way–as their best option continues to be a mechanical claw.
Listen to the complete interview here (5min MP3). Read about the hand on Keith’s KPLU blog here. Read more →
CSE's Jon Froehlich presents HydroSense
HydroSense — a team led by UW CSE graduate student Jon Froehlich and advised by UW CSE faculty members Shwetak Patel, James Fogarty, and James Landay, won the $10,000 grand prize in UW’s Environmental Innovation Challenge. Other members of the Hydrosense team included CSE graduate student Kate Everitt, MechE junior Tim Campbell, EE senior Alex Horton, EE graduate student Jianlei Shi, BioE graduate student Rahber Thariani, and Community, Environment and Planning senior Conor Haggerty.
HydroSense focused on the problem of water leakage in the United States, which accounts for 10 percent of average household water used. As part of their winning strategy, the team developed a device that screws onto a single water faucet and uses an analysis of acoustic vibrations and pressure differential signatures of water flow to determine usage.
UW Daily article here.
Xconomy article here.
TechFlash article here.
University Week article here.
Executive summary here (pdf).
Interview with the winning team here. Read more →
CSE professor Susan Eggers has received the 2009-2010 Athena Lecturer Award. The Athena Lecturer Award, given by ACM-W, recognizes women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. Susan was recognized for her work on computer architecture and experimental performance analysis has led to the development of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), the first commercially viable multithreaded architecture.
Congratulations Susan!
Read the full press release here. Read more →
The 2nd Annual Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition was held March 28 & 29th on the Microsoft campus. Teams were asked to secure a mock corporate network from an attacking red team while keeping business services such as the company website, email, and IT services up.
UW CSE’s team emerged victorious. With the regional competition win under their belts, the team (David Balatero, Vjekoslav Brajkovic, Ian Finder, Rob Hanlon, Amit Levy, Travis McCoy, Alex Meng, and Erik Turnquist) will go to nationals in San Antonio on April 17-19. Congratulations! Read more →
Finally, the big time! A Reader’s Digest article titled “How to Hide Anything” describes “19 ingenious new ways to conceal everything from your personal info on the Internet to a few extra pounds on your hips.”
#4, after “Kitchen Problems,” “A Few Extra Pounds,” and “A Few Extra Years,” is “Personal Info on your Laptop,” which includes a description of the UW CSE and UCSD Adeona software.
#7 (with “Anxiety” and “Your Medical Identity” intervening) is “Your Tracks Online,” which includes a description of the UW CSE and ICSI Web Integrity Checker.
Shortly thereafter we came to “Bad Breath” and didn’t have the courage to read further. But you can, here. Read more →
According to an article in the Seattle PI today, computer science classes are getting their groove back. According to the new Taulbee Report from the Computing Research Association, computer science enrollment rose 6.2 percent over last year, counting majors and pre-majors.
“Speaking from a computing symposium in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska was fired up about computing enrollments and eager to talk about the promise of the field. But he also expressed frustration that UW caps its computer science and computer engineering enrollments at 160.
”There’s much more demand than there is capacity in the program and that’s an issue for the state,’ Lazowska said. ‘We’re among the nation’s leading states in the percentage of the population that holds bachelor degrees. We’re among the lowest ranked states in our capacity to grant bachelor degrees by population.'”
Read the full article here. Read more →
