Each year VLDB – the International Conference on Very Large Databases – gives an award to the paper that appeared in the conference ten years previously and felt, with the benefit of hindsight, to have had the greatest impact.
UW CSE’s Dan Suciu and Nilesh Dalvi have just been named as the recipients of the VLDB 2014 10-year Best Paper Award for their paper “Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases,” which appeared in VLDB 2004.
Dan was (and… Read more →
Q13 TV features UW Bilicam app: “Detecting newborn jaundice with just the click of a phone”
“A new app, developed by doctors and engineers our own backyard, could help detect newborn jaundice and ease the fears of new parents …
“Simply place the phone near the baby’s stomach and take a picture. The app analyzed the skin color to see if it’s at an appropriate level.”
Check out the story and video here. Learn more about the Bilicam research here.
Short article in The Economic Times and The Times of India here.… Read more →
We need a UW CSE songbook!
With apologies to IBM (and to Hank):
Hank Levy is our inspiration,
Head and soul of our splendid CSE.
We are pledged to him in every nation,
Our Chair and most beloved man.
His wisdom has guided each division
In service to all humanity
We have grown and broadened with his vision,
None can match him or our great CSE.
Hank Levy, we all honor you,
You’re so big and so square and so true,
We will follow and serve… Read more →
UW CSE @ Facebook Seattle
UW CSE hosted an event on Thursday for alums at Facebook’s Seattle engineering office.
Exactly four years ago – in August 2010 – Ari Steinberg opened a one-person Facebook engineering office in Seattle. Today it boasts roughly 400 employees – roughly 90 of whom are from UW. (It also boasts a killer view!)… Read more →
WSU “Academic Planner” features UW on the cover!
We can’t make up stuff that’s this great:
“Students at Washington State University did a double-take when they received their free student planners from The Bookie this week. The cover features a picture of a cougar, the iconic Bryan clock tower and a building that was a little harder to identify.
“Down at the very bottom of the cover, with beautiful brick and elegant cherry trees is Savery Hall, a building located at the heart of the campus of WSU’s… Read more →
UCSD student publishes nude photos of advisor in top security conference
This doesn’t have much to do with UW CSE (well, one of the co-authors is the Ph.D. alum of a Ph.D. alum of ours, and another is a Bachelors alum of ours), but it’s too good to pass up. (Plus, we figure Savage and Voelker must have had their fingers in it somewhere …)
Read about it here. More photos here.
(Thanks to Dan Ports for the tip.)… Read more →
Looking to the Future of Data Science
Steve Lohr, in the New York Times, features UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni (now CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), with cameos by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research). Etzioni and Horvitz delivered keynotes earlier this week at KDD, the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
“Mr. Etzioni acknowledged the gains made possible by big data methods – identifying patterns and calculating statistical probabilities – in tasks like speech… Read more →
New smartphone app can detect newborn jaundice in minutes
UW News describes a UW CSE cellphone app, Bilicam, developed by Shwetak Patel’s students Lilian de Greef and Mayank Goel:
“Skin that turns yellow can be a sure sign that a newborn is jaundiced and isn’t adequately eliminating the chemical bilirubin. But that discoloration is sometimes hard to see, and severe jaundice left untreated can harm a baby.
“University of Washington engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results… Read more →
Ivan Sutherland receives Reed College Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and Reed College professor Jim Fix today presented computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland with the Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology at Reed College’s 2014 opening convocation.
The Vollum Award was created by Reed College in 1975 as a tribute to the late C. Howard Vollum, a graduate of the Class of 1936 and the founder of Tektronix. The award “is intended to recognize and celebrate the exceptional achievement of a member of… Read more →
New earthquake early warning system funded at UW by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Napa earthquake of earlier this week has drawn renewed attention to a major award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, Caltech, and the United States Geological Survey to create a west coast earthquake early warning system.
At last night’s kickoff meeting of the NSF M9 (Magnitude 9) Project, John Vidale – UW professor of Earth & Space Sciences, Washington State Seismologist, member of the eScience Institute team, and Moore Foundation PI… Read more →