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“‘He was one of the world’s great listeners,’ said Ed Lazowska, a University of Washington computer scientist who in recent years had collaborated with Dr. Gray on a series of projects designed to provide powerful computational tools to scientists. ‘I thought we had a special relationship,’ he said, only to realize that there were 500 special relationships of the same kind.
“Several speakers quoted Jimi Hendrix, who once noted, ‘Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens,’ to try to explain Jim Gray’s special qualities.
“The object lesson taught by Dr. Gray, said Dr. Lazowska, was that while there is nothing you can do about improving your I.Q., it is possible to work at becoming a terrific human being.
“‘Jim was the world’s greatest connector,’ he said. ‘He connected ideas and people and he didn’t understand boundaries, either corporate or national.'” Read more →
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“Farecast‘s sale to an unknown buyer is the latest score for superstar University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni, who has watched several of his Internet companies gobbled up at attractive valuations over the past 15 years.
“Those include comparison shopping service NetBot, which was acquired by Excite in 1997, and MetaCrawler, a search engine that is now part of InfoSpace.”
Farecast, like many other UW CSE startups, included Madrona Venture Group and the WRF Capital as early investors. Read more →
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CSE undergraduates Julia Moore and Kathy Wei have been awarded 2008 Goldwater Scholarships. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences. Read more →
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Photosynth, a collaboration between UW CSE’s computer graphics group and Microsoft, has been featured in an episode of CBS’s hit crime drama CSI: NY.
This is a significant move uptown from the graphics group’s other recent television exposure: visualization of “drafting” as part of NASCAR coverage.
Seattle Times article here
Seattle PI article here
Washington Times here
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Each year, the University of Washington awards medals to the students who had the strongest academic record in their class during the previous year. This year, in an unprecedented clean sweep, CSE students won all three medals. The Freshman Medalist (the top student in last year’s class of 5500 freshmen) is Chad Klumb. The Sophomore Medalist is Pavan Vaswani. The Junior Medalist is Ting-You Wang. Congratulations! Read more →
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“Whether you’re a frustrated songwriter or a shower-time crooner, you may long to hear your lyrics put to music. New software from Microsoft promises to provide just that: instant musical accompaniment to singing.
“The software, called MySong, was developed by Dan Morris and Sumit Basu at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, US, and Ian Simon at the University of Washington in Seattle.” Read more →
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“You’re trying to log on to a Web site and it’s not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn’t pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
“The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a proportion of computer traffic ends up being routed into information black holes. These are situations where a path between two computers does exist, but messages — a request to visit a Web site, an outgoing e-mail — get lost along the way.
“A University of Washington system named Hubble looks for these black holes and maps them on a Web site, providing an ever-changing constellation of the Internet’s weak points. The Hubble map lets visitors see a map of problems worldwide or type in a specific Web page or network address to check its status. The work is being presented next week in San Francisco at the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
“‘There’s an assumption that if you have a working Internet connection then you have access to the entire Internet,’ said Ethan Katz-Bassett, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering. ‘We found that’s not the case.'” Read more →
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“The secretive Seattle virtualization startup Illumita has changed its name to Skytap and unveiled details around its first product, dubbed Skytap Virtual Lab … Started as a project by University of Washington computer scientists, Skytap’s goal with its first product is to create an easy and cost-efficient manner by which companies can test Web applications or software code in a virtual lab.”
According to CSE professor and company co-founder Hank Levy, the domain name Spinaltap was already taken.
See also Seattle Times. Read more →
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“Ethan Katz-Bassett, a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington, and his advisor, Arvind Krishnamurthy, designed a program to continuously search for strange Internet gaps, when a request to visit a Web site or an outgoing e-mail gets lost along a pathway that was known to be working before.”
Hubble project web here
Parody from The Spoof! here.
LiveScience here
Fox News here
“Connected” interview (KJR FM) here
Computerworld here
Ars Technica here
Boing Boing here
Digg here
Slashdot here
Wired.com here
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UW CSE’s “Web Tripwires” paper was received enthusiastically (and covered extensively) when presented at this week’s NSDI conference. “Web Tripwires” measures the extent to which ISPs (or others) modify web pages “in flight,” e.g., to insert revenue-generating advertisements.
Run the experiment here
FAQ and research paper here
Slashdot here
ars technica article here
PC World article here
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