Just to be clear, here’s the actual exchange:
Nick Wingfield to Ed Lazowska:
I’m doing a story for early next week about Gates and his role at Microsoft. I thought you might have a thoughtful perspective on whether Gates will continue to be a figure of influence at Microsoft in the near future and why.
Ed Lazowska to Nick Wingfield:
I don’t have any special insight regarding BillG. My guess (and it’s only that):
Microsoft and Bill Gates are synonymous. … Read more →
“EnerJ, the Language of Good-Enough Computing”
IEEE Spectrum features CSE research on a language for “approximate computing” – work by Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, and Dan Grossman.
The work is part of a larger effort of rethinking the computing stack to embrace energy efficiency as a major concern, recognizing the fact that many modern applications do not require perfect accuracy. Other CSE/Microsoft Research work related to this effort, Neural Processing Units, has recently appeared in IEEE Micro “Top Picks” and was selected as a CACM Research… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Wen-Hann Wang named VP and Managing Director of Intel Labs
Our exceptionally modest and exceptionally accomplished 1989 Ph.D. alum Wen-Hann Wang has been named Vice President and Managing Director of Intel Labs, succeeding Justin Ratner, who has retired from Intel.
Here’s a profile of Wen-Hann from the Autumn 2011 issue of Most Significant Bits, the UW CSE alumni publication. And another profile from Wen-Hann’s receipt of UW CSE’s 2012 Alumni Achievement Award.
Wen-Hann gives great credit to his UW CSE Ph.D. advisor, Jean-Loup Baer, for influencing his career. Interestingly… Read more →
UW CSE and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition
A good time was had by all!… Read more →
UW CSE’s networking research group is on fire!
UW CSE’s networking research group has swept the Best Paper Awards at the three top venues this year: NSDI, SIGCOMM, and now Mobicom. (Not to mention Shyam Gollakota’s receipt of the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award!)
Go team!… Read more →
UW prof Julie Kientz on women in tech, human-centered design and commercialization
TechFlash interviews HCDE professor (and CSE adjunct professor) Julie Kientz:
“Julie Kientz wants to make technology more human. Not by creating human-like robots or apps that talk like people, but by taking existing technology and finding ways to use it to better people’s lives.”
Read more here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten tells Congress: Bulk phone data reveals ‘startling insights’
Seemingly minor bits of information collected by the National Security Agency, such as the phone numbers that citizens dial, can reveal far more personal information than is commonly believed, Princeton University professor and UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
Felten said that searching for patterns in large collections of metadata “can now reveal startling insights about the behavior of individuals or groups.”
“It is no longer safe to assume that… Read more →
UW CSE at the 13th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences, dating back to 1994, designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. This year’s conference – the 13th – was held in Minneapolis, MN, with an estimated 4,000 attendees.
UW’s strong commitment to diversity is reflected in our perennial position among the best-represented schools at the Hopper conference, regardless of location. This year was no exception. UW participants were a… Read more →
WiSee wins Mobicom 2013 Best Paper Award
The paper “Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals” by CSE’s Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel has received the Best Paper Award from Mobicom 2013.
The paper describes WiSee, a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. In a nutshell, your motion distorts the ambient signal in ways that can be detected, interpreted, and used to control devices.
Read… Read more →
Reports from the MOOC front lines
UW News features a report on 2012-13 UW MOOC experience. Three of the four courses examined were CSE courses: Programming Languages (Dan Grossman), Computer Networks (David Wetherall, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and John Zahorjan), and Introduction to Data Science (Bill Howe).
Read the article here – lots of interesting material is linked.… Read more →