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“Yoshi Kohno, assistant professor of computer science & engineering, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, given each year to outstanding young scientists … A total of 118 fellowships were awarded this year in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience … Kohno’s research interests are in computer security, electronic privacy and cryptography. Some of his past studies have investigated security concerns related to electronic voting machines and ways to ensure the security of transactions over the Internet. Other research directions include security and privacy of wireless networks, online anonymity and network forensics. Kohno earned his doctorate at the University of California, San Diego and has been at the UW since 2006.” Read more →
This spreadsheet from the University of Virginia tallies ten years of Computing Research Association “Outstanding Undergraduate” awards. In a nutshell:
- Total students recognized: UW #1, tied with CMU
- Number of winners: UW #1, tied with CMU, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Princeton
- Number of runners up: UW #1, tied with CMU and Harvard
- Number of finalists: UW #2, behind CMU and tied with Harvard
- Number of honorable mentions: UW #2, behind UVa
Go team!
See an excellent blog post by CMU Computer Science Department chair Peter Lee here. Read more →
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“An aging computer – so old that the University of Washington has an early model on display as a museum piece – stands between the Seattle School Board and the changes it wants to make in how the district assigns students to schools …
“The VAX was first sold in 1979, and early models were about as big as two refrigerators. Hank Levy, chairman of the UW’s computer-science and engineering department, was part of the team that designed its operating system. The VAX on display in the lobby of the department’s Paul G. Allen Center was an early model that Levy said at one time ‘ran our entire department …’
“‘It was a great system for its day, but its day is long past,’ Levy said … Although it’s hard to compare computing power of different systems, he also said that, in rough terms, even the later-model VAXes have only about 1/20th the power of an iPhone.” Read more →
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A terrific Google video describing the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative launched by Google, IBM, and NSF based on work done by Google and UW Computer Science & Engineering. UW CSE alumnus and Google engineer Christophe Bisciglia is featured, along with various UW CSE faculty and students. Read more →
Magda Balazinska and Evan Welbourne are interviewed in this KIRO TV 7 report on RFID and privacy.
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“Members of the UW’s Design:Use:Build (DUB) Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design swept the top conference in their field, which explores the interface between human and machine. UW researchers nabbed three out of seven Best Paper Awards selected from more than 700 submissions to this April’s CHI 2008 meeting. Not only that – they had 16 papers accepted, more than any other university.” Read more →
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This award honors the late A. Nico Habermann, who headed NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate and who was deeply committed to increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing research. Ladner, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW, is recognized for his lifelong, strong and persistent advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities in the computing community. Read more →
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“Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. This one is actually doing it.
“Stroll through the hip Fremont District and you will sense the Valley vibe. Google recently opened a research lab here, its second in Microsoft’s backyard. Technology start-ups are sprouting up amid quirky neighborhood landmarks like a bronze statue of Lenin and the Fremont Troll, the giant concrete creature lurking beneath the George Washington Memorial Bridge.
“More young companies are moving in downtown, near the art galleries and bookstores around Pioneer Square. Still others are spreading into the surrounding suburbs.
“‘The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and growing rapidly,’ said Oren Etzioni, an artificial-intelligence expert at the University of Washington and a serial technology entrepreneur.
“The University of Washington, in fact, is one of the big draws. It is fostering the entrepreneurial climate here the way Stanford University does in Silicon Valley.” Read more →
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“If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you’re hunting down a person or a thing, a computer’s not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the ‘Internet of things,’ in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network.
“To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of volunteers in the University of Washington’s computer science building provides the next step in social networking …”
A description of UW CSE’s RFID Ecosystem project. Read more →
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“In the past, I’ve written about natural and built environmental sensors, and wondered whether people should be included among the vital signs of an urban ecosystem. But I’ve skirted most of the privacy issues because I don’t have great answers for you, so I’m happy to see that these researchers, led by Magda Balazinska, are trying to come up with good tech or policy solutions, as they put it, ‘before such systems become commonplace.'” Read more →
