“Big data can be a nightmare. Sure, it’s powerful stuff, but as anyone who’s worked with large sets of raw data knows, they can be an epic bitch to wrangle. Cleaning things up into a consistent, usable format winds up burning an extraordinary amount of time – precious hours that could be going into something far more productive. But that may be about to change.
“The issue is known among data scientists and statisticians as data transformation. And by Jeff… Read more →
It’s time for UW CSE’s summer daycamps for K-12 students!
This is the first week of UW CSE’s extensive set of summer daycamps in computing for K-12 students. This summer’s camps include:
Two introductory sessions (including this week’s) using Processing for girls entering grades 7, 8, or 9
Two introductory sessions using Processing for girls entering grades 10, 11, or 12
A co-ed session in Physical Computing for students entering grades 10, 11, 12, or new college freshmen
A co-ed session in Game Programming for students entering grades 7, 8,… Read more →
“Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers”
UW News reports on work by CSE faculty members Maya Cakmak and Raj Rao and their students.
“University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks …
“The team designed a study that taps into the online crowdsourcing community to teach a robot a model-building task. To begin, study participants built a simple model – a car, tree, turtle and snake, among others – out… Read more →
KOMO TV and KUOW FM: “Computer teaches itself everything about anything”
KOMO TV reports on LEVAN – “Learn Everything about Anything” – a collaboration between UW CSE professor Ali Farhadi and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence researcher Santosh Divvala.
LEVAN is a cloud-based computer program that can teach itself everything there is to know about a visual concept, and make the results searchable for anyone to access. LEVAN operates differently than traditional search engines, because it’s designed to learn to understand the concepts behind a specific image.
Give LEVAN a… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu named 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
2011 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu, now on the faculty at Columbia University, is one of 14 faculty members worldwide named 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows.
Roxana’s research concerns computer systems in a broad sense, including distributed systems, the Web, security and privacy, operating systems, and databases. More specifically, her current research focuses on the challenges and opportunities created by today’s emerging technologies, such as the Web, cloud computing, and powerful mobile devices.
Roxana joins a long… Read more →
Transitions at the UW Center for Commercialization
GeekWire reports:
“Linden Rhoads, who helped boost the number of startups coming out of the University of Washington over the past six years, is stepping down as vice provost of commercialization to return to private industry …
“In a related move, the UW announced that electrical engineering professor Vikram Jandhyala will assume the new role of Vice Provost of Innovation …
“Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, said… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Geoff Voelker honored again for excellence in teaching
Writes Geoff Voelker‘s fellow UW CSE Ph.D. alum and fellow UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering faculty member Stefan Savage: “I apologize that I was unable to get the photo from the award ceremony … semi-formal … in which Geoff was surrounded by all the sorority members honoring him.”
Congratulations, Geoff!… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson receives USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
The USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (“The Flame”) recognizes and celebrates singular contributions to the operating systems, distributed systems, and networking communities of both intellectual achievement and service.
This year’s USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award has been presented to UW CSE professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus) Tom Anderson for multiple contributions, including the Nachos operating system course project, the PlanetLab global distributed system research platform, extraordinary student mentoring, and co-founding NSDI, the USENIX Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation.
The… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson receives USENIX Software Tools Award
The USENIX Software Tools Award recognizes significant contributions to the community that reflect the spirit and character demonstrated by those who came together in the Software Tools User Group. Recipients of the award conspicuously exhibit a contribution to the reusable code-base available to all and/or the provision of a significant enabling technology to users in a widely available form.
This year’s USENIX Software Tools Award has been presented to UW CSE professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus) Tom Anderson and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Vincent Liu, Robert Gens win Google Ph.D. Fellowships!
Google has just announced the winners of its 2014 Google Ph.D. Fellowships.
Among the 14 winners of North American fellowships are two UW CSE Ph.D. students, Vincent Liu and Robert Gens.
Vincent works with CSE faculty member Tom Anderson (and many others) in the broad area of distributed systems and networking. His projects have touched on fault-tolerance, security, data centers, wireless networks, clean-slate Internet architecture, routing/addressing, and the economic aspects of the Internet. (His undergraduate research, at the University… Read more →