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 →
Why are tuition costs rising at public universities?
An article in the Seattle Times makes it clear. Between 1991 and 2014, per-capita taxpayer support for the University of Washington has decreased 62% – from $95 per capita to $36 per capita. (Per-capita taxpayer support for Washington’s community college system has decreased by only 28%, and is now 2.5 times as great as support for UW: $89 vs. $36.)
Sometimes, you get what you pay for …
Read the article here.… Read more →
Project Catapult: FPGA acceleration for search
In a paper presented by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Andrew Putnam at this week’s International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Microsoft researchers described the use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to deliver performance improvements of as much as 95 percent on Bing search. It’s incredibly cool and high-impact work!
The paper, “A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services,” had 23 authors(!). In addition to Andrew, the principal technical contributors to the work were Doug Burger (Director of… Read more →
UW CSE confers 317 degrees
A record 317 degrees were conferred by UW CSE on Saturday: 205 Bachelors students, 84 Masters students, and 28 Doctoral students were recognized at UW CSE’s graduation ceremony in Meany Hall Theater.
Congratulations to all of our students! And a few special shout-outs:
Gaetano Borriello received the ACM Student Chapter Teaching Award. (Gaetano also received the 2014 University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.)
Jennifer Apacible received CSE’s Undergraduate Service Award.
Nick Martindale received CSE’s Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Thesis… Read more →
Revealing the truth about Harvey Mudd College
UW EE Ph.D. student Julie Medero will join the Computer Science faculty at Harvey Mudd College in the fall.
A few of the many Mudders now in UW CSE and EE gathered with Julie in the Atrium to tell her all the things they had kept to themselves while she was considering the job. (Just kidding! Mudd is a phenomenal school and one of our top sources of Ph.D. students!)
Left to right: Dan Halperin (CSE and eScience Institute), Lilian… Read more →
CSE featured at Madrona Venture Group “Internet of Things” media dinner in San Francisco
On Wednesday, Madrona Venture Group hosted an Internet of Things media dinner in San Francisco. Media attendees included journalists from Forbes, Fortune, NPR, the New York Times, Recode, Tech Review, Thomson Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Xconomy.
The panel was moderated by Madrona Managing Director Tom Alberg. Panelists:
Chris Diorio, co-founder and CTO of UW CSE startup Impinj (and former UW CSE faculty member), a leader in the RFID space.
Shwetak Patel, co-founder UW CSE startup SNUPI Technologies… Read more →
Sumit Gulwani wins Robin Milner Award
UW CSE affiliate professor (and Microsoft Research staff member) Sumit Gulwani has received the 2014 ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of programming languages.
Sumit has made pioneering contributions to the field of programming languages, especially in the areas of program analysis and program synthesis. Building on his foundational work in program analysis including using randomized algorithms, improving abstract interpretation, and reasoning about programs as continuous functions, Sumit… Read more →
CSE’s Gaetano Borriello, Donald Chinn honored
At today’s University of Washington Awards of Excellence ceremony, UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce presented CSE professor Gaetano Borriello with the 2014 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, and CSE Ph.D. alumnus (and UW-Tacoma professor) Donald Chinn with one of seven 2014 Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Congratulations Gaetano and Donald!… Read more →
CSE helps Sand Point Elementary School introduce Scratch programming
Sand Point Elementary, a public school near the University of Washington, has started to incorporate programming classes into their curriculum. They are using the wildly popular Scratch language, which lets the students visually compose programs that animate small sprites on the screen. These sprites can be controlled by the user and can interact with each other.
“By exposing students at a young age to programming, we begin to build in them an idea of the potential for their… Read more →
“New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything”
UW News reports:
“Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches everything there is to know about any visual concept. Called Learning Everything about Anything, or LEVAN, the program searches millions of books and images on the Web to learn all possible variations of a concept, then displays the results to users as a comprehensive, browsable list of images, helping them… Read more →