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Bill Gates visits UW CSE and speaks to a packed house of students in the final stop on his 2008 tour of six universities.
“With his father and two sisters watching from the front row, Gates recounted for the overflow crowd the well-known story of roaming the University of Washington campus as a boy with Paul Allen, who would become the Microsoft co-founder, looking for research computers that they could use in off-hours. They were ‘stealing computer time, and now I’m giving it back,’ Gates said, to laughter.”
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CSE graduate students Alan Ritter and Tom Lin, both working with Professor Oren Etzioni in the Turing Center, have received 2008 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Read more →
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“As teenagers, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wandered the University of Washington campus, trying to pilfer free computer time. They let their minds wander to a future when computing power would essentially be free.
“Gates, in the final stop of his last university-speaking circuit as a full-time Microsoft employee, told students and faculty at the UW on Friday about what they imagined then and how much of what they dreamed of is becoming reality …
“A common thread is the UW itself. Gates acknowledged the important relationship he, Microsoft and the Foundation have with the university. It starts with his parents, who met there as students, he said. He took an algebra class there, but the main benefit was finding time to practice his skills on unused mainframe and minicomputers around the campus – before the PC era he helped create … He said the UW has received more Gates Foundation grants than any other university. Microsoft, in a typical year, hires about 100 people from the UW, making it the top source of talent for the company, Gates said … He also highlighted work at the UW on collaboration software and an innovative photo-viewing technology that became a Microsoft product called Photosynth.”
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Three UW CSE graduate students and three recent UW CSE bachelors alums have been named recipients of 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, the top award for graduate students in engineering and the sciences. UW CSE graduate student recipients are Laura Effinger-Dean, Brian DeRenzi, and Jessica Chang. UW CSE bachelors alum recipients are Annie Liu (now a graduate student at Caltech), Gabriel Maganis (now applying to graduate schools), and Kurtis Heimerl (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley). Read more →
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UW CSE students Julie Letchner and Kate Everitt are among 23 nationwide winners of 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarships. Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships “to honor the work of Dr. Anita Borg, a computer scientist who dedicated her professional career to increasing the participation of women and other under-represented minorities in the field of technology.” 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.
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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 →
