The paper “Characterizing Processor Architectures for Programmable Network Interfaces,” which appeared in the International Conference on Supercomputing in 2000, is one of 35 papers selected for inclusion in the retrospective volume 25 Years of the International Conference on Supercomputing.
The selection committee considered the 100 most cited papers out of approximately 1,800 papers published in the ICS proceedings between 1987 and 2011, selecting the 35 most influential.
Congratulations to authors Patrick Crowley (then a UW CSE Ph.D. student,… Read more →
CSE’s Tracy Erbeck paces World’s Largest Kettlebell Workout
We’ve been wondering what Allen Center building manager Tracy Erbeck was doing down in the Allen Center loading dock area at lunchtime every day. And those klunky things sitting on her desk didn’t look quite like curling stones.
Now we know.
Tracy joined University of Washington President Michael Young, his wife Marti Young, and more than 1,000 of their closest friends today in an attempt to set a Guinness record for the World’s Largest Kettlebell Workout – part of UW’s… Read more →
UW startup SNUPI in MIT Technology Review
“Earlier this month, as Google was snatching up the smart-thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, a lesser known home sensor company made its own announcement. SNUPI Technologies, a Seattle startup, said it had garnered $7.5 million in funding. That might be pocket change compared to the Nest deal, but it was a significant endorsement just ahead of SNUPI’s first product launch: a low-power wireless sensor network called WallyHome that tracks humidity, water leaks, and temperature throughout a building.”
SNUPI’s… Read more →
Twitter’s Seattle engineering facility
Seattle is the site of Twitter’s first organically grown engineering office away from the mother ship (the company’s Boston and New York City outposts resulted from acquisitions).
Chris Fry, Twitter’s Senior VP of Engineering, and Raffi Krikorian, VP of Platform Engineering, flew up to Seattle this week to check out the new digs.
Krikorian tells GeekWire that Twitter has always hired people from the Seattle area, so it was only natural to open up a permanent office here. “A lot… Read more →
“Tuesdays with T4A”: UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska
T4A (Tech for America) is a non-partisan organization that is creating a network of entrepreneurs committed to redefining the public/private sector relationship. At T4A’s TechTables, current and former elected officials and tech industry thought leaders engage in substantive dialogue in safe, off-the-record, non-partisan settings.
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, a member of the Seattle Convening Board of T4A, is profiled in an interview this week:
“T4A: Just about everyone (regardless of political affiliation) sees a large gap between our politics (Washington… Read more →
CSE animated short “Catch and Release” at Children’s Film Festival Seattle
“Catch and Release,” the 2011 animated short produced by students in the digital animation capstone course sequence directed by UW CSE’s Barbara Mones, will be shown at Children’s Film Festival Seattle on the evening of Saturday February 1.
Learn more about “Catch and Release” and other UW Animation Research Labs shorts here. Purchase tickets to the CFFS showing here.… Read more →
UW CSE rocks at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
UW CSE robotics faculty (Maya Cakmak, Dieter Fox, Raj Rao, Josh Smith (joint with EE), and Emo Todorov (joint with Applied Mathematics)) and their students have 14(!) papers accepted at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the major conference in robotics. The research cover a large variety of areas in robotics, including biologically inspired microrobots, optimal control, computer vision, human robot interaction, machine learning, hardware design, and manipulation. The papers:
A Wirelessly… Read more →
UW’s AccessComputing helps code.org make their inspirational videos accessible
UW’s AccessComputing – the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers – has worked with code.org to make their inspirational videos accessible to blind students by adding audio description. Audio description provides additional audio to the video to describe what is visually happening. The added audio is in a different voice to distinguish it from the voices in the original video.
AccessComputing, a joint effort by CSE and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington, is… Read more →
CSE’s Yoav Artzi wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
And in late-breaking news (“nobody ever tells me anything”), UW CSE Ph.D. student Yoav Artzi has also been named a recipient of a 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship.
Yoav, who is advised by Luke Zettlemoyer, works at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and learning through interaction.… Read more →
CSE’s Mayank Goel wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Mayank Goel has been named one of 12 recipients (from 181 nominees!) of 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships.
Mayank is advised by professors Gaetano Borriello and Shwetak Patel. His research concerns ubiquitous computing and ICTD (information and communication technology for development).
Other recent UW winners of this hugely competitive fellowship are Gabe Cohn and Franzi Roesner in 2012, Morgan Dixon in 2011, Kayur Patel in 2009, and Pravin Bhat, Scott Saponas, and Jon Froehlich in… Read more →