Wired writes:
“If you’ve noticed your Facebook mobile messages zipping around a little more quickly over the past few months, you can thank a little-known open-source project called Apache Thrift.
“Facebook designed Thrift and has long used the tool to send data between computer servers inside the sprawling data centers that underpin its online empire. But in the summer, the company also began using it to connect user smartphones running the Facebook Messenger app to machines inside these data… Read more →
Josh Smith in 2014 UW Engineering Lecture Series “Engineering the Heart”
This year’s UW Engineering Lecture Series – “Engineering the Heart” – takes place on the evenings of October 15, November 4, and November 18.
The final talk – November 18 – will be by CSE and EE professor Josh Smith, explaining his team’s work on “Cutting the Cord: Wireless Power for Implantable Devices.”… Read more →
Satya Nadella: “Suck it up, women – trust the system”
Update: Here is Satya Nadella’s email to employees following the Hopper Conference interview:
“Toward the end of the interview, Maria asked me what advice I would offer women who are not comfortable asking for pay raises. I answered that question completely wrong. Without a doubt I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work. And… Read more →
Shout-out to UW CSE’s Open Data Kit in the Washington Post
In the article “Engineering improvements for the world,” the Washington Post notes:
“It may be true that engineers are producing sometimes-myopic inventions. But something else is happening that is getting little attention.
“In labs around the world, a new generation of engineers is emerging. They are men and women concerned by the gulf between rich and poor and by environmental changes and resource depletion. They are what we call ‘development engineers’ – engineers (and often economics, business and social science… Read more →
UW CSE “Women in Computing” reception
This evening, UW CSE hosted a “sendoff reception” for several dozen undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing later in the week. The reception was attended by these students, CSE’s ever-growing cadre of woman faculty members, and several dozen woman alums from the region. Many thanks to Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler for providing inspiring remarks as part of the program!
Want to learn about CSE’s efforts to increase the representation… Read more →
UW CSE’s Arrakis is OSDI ’14 Best Paper
Congratulations to Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe – authors of Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane, just named one of three Best Papers of this week’s 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).
“In Arrakis, we ask the question whether we can remove the OS kernel entirely from normal application execution. The kernel only sets up the execution environment and… Read more →
NPR: “The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech”
A wonderful NPR report on the women who launched the world of software. It was stimulated by Walter Isaacson’s new book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, in which he tells many of these stories.
“Decades ago, it was women who pioneered computer programming …”
Read/listen here.… Read more →
MSN Money credits UW for the latest panic: “Self-driving cars – the next terrorism threat?”
“Reports over the weekend that Tesla could be the latest carmaker to add autonomous features to its products is being greeted with excitement, but experts remain concerned that the new industry technology could be susceptible to sinister cybercriminal activity …
“Analysts are keen to point out an academic paper dating from back in 2011 when researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California-San Diego were able to wirelessly hack into cars. This led to the auto industry… Read more →
“Sound Startups” – KIRO 7
“Sound Startups” – A phenomenal KIRO 7 30-minute profile of the Puget Sound region’s startup ecosystem:
Bill Mitchell / PicoBrew
Dan Shapiro / Robot Turtles
Shwetak Patel (CSE faculty) / SNUPI Technologies + Wally
A stroll through Fremont
Elissa Fink / Tableau
Mike Young (UW President) / UW’s Startup Hall
Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock (CSE adjunct faculty, iSchool faculty) / AnswerDash
Jeremy Jaech (CSE alum, UW Regent) / serial entrepreneurship (and some wonderful comments on the role of UW… Read more →
UW “Trend in Engineering” features Data Science
“SeaFlow, a research instrument developed in the lab of UW School of Oceanography director Ginger Armbrust, analyzes 15,000 marine microorganisms per second, generating up to 15 gigabytes of data every single day of a typical multi-week-long oceanographic research cruise.
“UW professor of astronomy Andy Connolly is preparing for the unveiling of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will map the entire night sky every three days and produce about 100 petabytes of raw data about our universe over the… Read more →