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 →
UW CSE scores “Best Paper” at NSDI ’15
A team of faculty and students from UW CSE’s Computer Systems Lab today received the Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’15) for the paper “Designing Distributed Systems Using Approximate Synchrony in Data Center Networks.” The team was led by UW CSE professor Dan Ports, and included UW CSE graduate students Jialin Li, Vincent Liu, and Naveen Kr. Sharma, and UW CSE professor Arvind Krishnamurthy… Read more →
Sham Kakade joins UW Computer Science & Engineering and Statistics
Sham Kakade, a world-class expert in statistical machine learning, will join the University of Washington this fall as the holder of a Washington Research Foundation Data Science Chair appointed jointly in Computer Science & Engineering and Statistics, expanding UW’s excellence in data science and strengthening the connection between these two highly ranked programs.
Sham is currently Principal Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, New England. His research has ranged from economics to neuroscience to applied and theoretical machine learning and… Read more →
New York Times: “40 Busy Years Later, a Microsoft Founder Considers His Creation”
Nick Wingfield interviews Paul G. Allen in the New York Times:
“Looking at Microsoft’s sprawling product line and 118,000 or so employees, it’s easy to forget that the company started with one modest product made by two ambitious people.
“In early April, one of those two people, Paul Allen, offered a reminder of Microsoft’s humble origins when he posted a photograph on Twitter commemorating the company’s 40th anniversary. The picture showed the introductory lines of the printed code for Microsoft’s… Read more →
The Wall Street Journal on Artificial Intelligence and UW CSE
UW CSE is heavily featured in this Wall Street Journal article on AI:
“When the University of Washington’s computer-science department wanted to poach artificial-intelligence expert Carlos Guestrin from Carnegie Mellon, it turned to Amazon.com Inc.
“The Seattle-based tech giant ponied up $2 million to fund two professorships: one for Mr. Guestrin, and another for his wife, who also works in the field. To seal the deal, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos met the academic during a campus visit.
“‘[Mr. Bezos]… Read more →