The 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held Wednesday through Friday October 8‐10. Two sessions during GHC created a great deal of controversy: a Male Allies Plenary Panel on Wednesday evening featuring Alan Eustace (Google), Blake Irving (GoDaddy), Mike Schroepfer (Facebook), and Tayloe Stansbury (Intuit), and an interview of Microsoft
CEO Satya Nadella by Harvey Mudd College President (and Microsoft Board of Directors
member) Maria Klawe on Thursday morning.
On the evening of Monday October 13, UW… Read more →
The Stranger on tech vulnerabilities
The Stranger, Seattle’s authoritative source for tech news and views, reports on an experiment in which our EE colleagues deploy a surgical robot rife with software vulnerabilities, then demonstrate that it can be hacked.
The work of CSE professor Yoshi Kohno and his colleagues also is cited:
“This isn’t the first time the University of Washington has conducted such an experiment. The computer science department – particularly the work of Tadayoshi Kohno – has unearthed flaws in embedded medical devices,… Read more →
UW CSE’s 3rd annual Notkinfest TGIF
The announcement read:
This Friday, 5/8 at 4:30 in the Atrium, we will be holding the 3rd annual Notkinfest TGIF to celebrate the life of former CSE chair David Notkin! Come, eat, drink, and enjoy exciting beard-related activities, which in past years have included “Make your own Notkin beard” and “Pin the beard on the Notkin.” There will be prizes in benson store credit** for “Best Beard” and “Most Creative Beard.”
Check out pictures from Notkinfest 2014 and from the … Read more →
And then there’s CHI …
We missed April’s announcement of “Best Papers” at the 2015 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). Three had UW CSE ties:
Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India, by UW CSE Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha, MSR India researcher Ed Cutrell, the late UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello, and MSR India researcher Bill Thies.
From User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product, by… Read more →
Another day, another “Best Paper” Award …
Noah Smith has not yet arrived in Seattle as a member of the UW CSE faculty, but we’ll over-reach and claim partial credit for his “Best Paper” Award at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015).
The paper – Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons – describes “retrofitting,” a new way to improve any vector encodings of words in English (or any language) using existing semantic… Read more →
It’s the Friday before Mother’s Day!
Did your son make you a Mother’s Day hat and ask you to wear it at work? CSE Facilities Manager Tracy Erbeck’s son did!… Read more →
UW CSE’s Annual Scholarship/Fellowship Recognition Luncheon
UW CSE is fortunate to have 28 endowed undergraduate scholarships and 18 endowed graduate fellowships available as departmental awards. Each spring we host a luncheon to recognize the donors of our scholarships and fellowships, and the outstanding students who are the beneficiaries of this generosity. It’s one of our favorite events of the year!
At the undergraduate level, scholarships allow Washington’s top students to get a UW CSE education, regardless of family circumstances. At the graduate level, fellowships allow us… Read more →
UW CSE scores OSDI, NSDI, PLDI “Best Paper” hat trick!
UW CSE has scored a 2014-15 academic year hat trick: “Best Paper” Awards at all three of the “DI” conferences:
Arrakis, in Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), in October;
Speculative Paxos, in Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), at the start of this week;
Herbie, in Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), today.
Go team!… Read more →
UW CSE systems group @ Ridge
UW CSE systems lab members (and friends) celebrate their award paper at NSDI with a visit to Ridge, “The Official Winery of UW CSE” – a tradition we inherited from Andrew Birrell and Mike Schroeder during their Xerox PARC CSL and DEC SRC days.
(Ridge was in fact established by engineers who worked at SRI for UW CSE’s founding chair, Jerre Noe. Jerre’s younger son Russ worked at Ridge in high school, which made it impossible for him to drink… Read more →
UW CSE scores “Best Paper” at PLDI ’15
UW CSE graduate student Pavel Panchekha, undergraduate student Alex Sanchez-Stern, graduate student James R. Wilcox, and professor Zachary Tatlock have received a “Best Paper” award at PLDI 2015, the 36th annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, for their paper “Automatically Improving Accuracy for Floating Point Expressions.”
The paper describes Herbie, a tool that automatically discovers and applies numerical analysis techniques to improve the accuracy of programs without requiring any specialized… Read more →