It’s the men and women of UW Facilities Services who keep the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering looking great and working great. 75 of them turned out for our annual holiday “Shops Appreciation Luncheon.” Many thanks to all the great folks at UW Facilities Services who make it possible for those of us in CSE to focus on the computer science!
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UW CSE alum and Mesos co-creator Ben Hindman: Where the cluster manager came from and where it’s heading
ZDNet interviews 2007 UW CSE alum and Mesos co-creator Ben Hindman:
“Cluster manager Apache Mesos has already secured a serious role at high-profile users such as Twitter, Airbnb, HubSpot, Groupon, eBay and OpenTable. On top of that, startup Mesosphere this month announced an ambitious datacenter operating system based on the software …
Benjamin Hindman, who left Twitter in September to become Mesosphere’s chief architect, is the co-creator of Mesos. The cluster manager emerged from his collaboration with peers in the… Read more →
UW CSE alum Scott Ritchie @ Big Nerd Ranch
Scott Ritchie received his bachelors from UW CSE in 1983 – the same year his father Bob, one of the founders of the department, stepped down as chair. He attended grad school at Berkeley, worked for Sun and elsewhere, and is now teaching iOS bootcamps at Big Nerd Ranch. We ran across a really wonderful testimonial from a student:
“My first Big Nerd Ranch course was the Beginning iOS bootcamp, taught by the excellent Scott Ritchie at the former… Read more →
UW CSE’s Saloni Parikh, KimYen Truong, and Brett Boston recognized by Computing Research Association
Each year the Computing Research Association recognizes a small number of undergraduate students in their Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition – students who, as undergraduates, have conducted cutting-edge research working alongside faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. CRA honors a Winner, a Runner-up, a small number of Finalists, and a larger (but still highly selective) number of Honorable Mentions, among both male and female students.
Three UW CSE students have been recognized in the 2015 competition: Saloni Parikh, KimYen Truong,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Will Scott on Seattle Police Department Hackathon
On December 19th, the Seattle Police Department will host its first-ever Hackathon.
During the past five and a half years, SPD patrol car cameras have recorded 314,636 hours (or 364 terabytes) of 911 responses plus interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. With 1,612,554 videos already on their servers – and more on the way through an upcoming body cam pilot program – SPD is looking for automated tools to assist in redacting videos so that they can be made accessible… Read more →
Resurgent UW CSE RFID startup Impinj relocates from Fremont to South Lake Union
GeekWire reports on the relocation of UW CSE startup Impinj from Fremont to South Lake Union:
“Impinj is leaving its longtime headquarters in Seattle’s quirky Fremont neighborhood, heading to larger digs in the fast-growing and ever-changing South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle …
“A 14-year-old maker of RFID products which has undergone a resurgence in recent months, Impinj plans to take over the 11th and 12th floors of [a] 14-story building, which includes amenities such as large open floor… Read more →
What every Christmas tree needs!
Every year, the parents of UW CSE Ph.D. student Eric Mullen give him a Christmas tree ornament. This year they outdid themselves!
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in NY Times
A phenomenal article by John Markoff in the New York Times, discussing the approaches of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, with extensive quotation of Paul G. Allen and AI2’s CEO (and UW CSE professor) Oren Etzioni.
“Mr. Allen, who noted that he came from a family of librarians, said his decision to fund an artificial intelligence research lab was inspired by the question of how books and other knowledge might be encoded to become the basis for computer interactions… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska leads academic amici supporting Microsoft in key privacy case
Microsoft General Counsel and Executive Vice President Brad Smith writes:
“Today represents an important milestone in our litigation concerning the U.S. Government’s attempt to use a search warrant to compel Microsoft to obtain and turn over email of a customer stored in Ireland. That’s because 10 groups are filing their ‘friend of the court’ briefs in New York today.
“Seldom has a case below the Supreme Court attracted the breadth and depth of legal involvement we’re seeing today. Today’s ten… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska to NRC Computer Science & Telecommunications Board: “Use the commercial cloud!”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska addresses the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board’s “Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support US Science in 2017-2020.”
“We have a crazy obsession with buying shiny objects – the bigger and more expensive, the better!”
“We’re investing 9:1 in hardware over software – it ought to be the reverse!”
“We have a dogged resistance to utilizing commercial software, services, and systems. We purchase our own. We operate our own.… Read more →