200 UW CSE alums and friends gathered at Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto CA this evening for our annual spring Bay Area alumni soiree.
Many thanks to Tesla for hosting a terrific event, featuring remarks and Q&A by co-founder and CTO JB Straubel, plus tours of the R&D facility.
Two-Tesla owners Loren Carpenter and Jeff Dean joined one-Tesla owners Ben Lenail and Shwetak Patel plus many dozens of Tesla-owner-wanna-be’s for a really super evening.
Photos here and (from Adam Perry)… Read more →
CSE’s Oren Etzioni, Farecast in NY Times
“Over the years, airline travel has been a prime testbed for advanced computing and data tools. In the late 1950s and 1960s, American Airlines and I.B.M. teamed up to develop the Sabre computerized reservations system, perhaps the most impressive private-sector computer system of its day.
“More recently, airline data has served as the raw material for predictive data-mining applications like Farecast, which tells consumers whether the price of a plane ticket, for a specific trip on a specific day, is… Read more →
CSE’s Luis Ceze wins IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze has received the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award!
This annual award recognizes outstanding, innovative, high impact research contributions in the field of computer architecture by computer architects who earned their doctorates six years or less ago.
Luis received the award today at the 40th International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Tel Aviv.
Congratulations Luis! Learn more about his research here.
Update: It may appear that Luis is relaxing after receiving his award, but… Read more →
UW CSE @ LearnSprout
LearnSprout, a Bay Area startup, is loaded with UW CSE alums. Pictured are Frank Chien, Alex Meng, Jonathan Fung, Anthony Wu, Alex Odle, and Joe Woo. That whiteboard behind them? It converts to a bed – check out the video here.… Read more →
Bumper crop of UW CSE seniors heading to graduate school
It’s been a great year for UW CSE seniors gaining admission to the nation’s top graduate programs:
David Colmenares, Jesse Dodge, Ekaterina Nepomnyashchaya, and Sor Sukkerd are headed to CMU (David in Mechanical Engineering).
Sam Hopkins, Jonathan Shi, and Laure Thompson are headed to Cornell.
Jerry Li is headed to MIT.
Kevin Clark is headed to Stanford (after a gap year).
Chris Dentel and Bennett Ng are headed to Berkeley (Bennett in Bioengineering).
Changhou Han is headed to UCSD.
Christopher… Read more →
CRA and ACM honor David Notkin
At the ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco on Saturday, CSE’s David Notkin was posthumously recognized with the CRA A. Nico Habermann Award for his many contributions to advancing members of under-represented groups – particularly women – in computing. The award was accepted by David’s daughter Emma and son Akiva.
This lovely tribute video to David and to his Ph.D. advisor Nico Habermann was produced by ACM and shown at the Awards Banquet.
Thanks to CRA and ACM for honoring… Read more →
UW CSE at the ACM Awards Banquet
UW CSE was well represented on the stage at the 2013 ACM Awards Banquet gala in San Francisco on Saturday evening (coinciding, unfortunately, with UW’s commencement exercises, which were a week later than usual this year):
New faculty addition Shyam Gollakota received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his MIT dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems,” supervised by Dina Katabi.
Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean, along with his colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, received the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences… Read more →
A third IEEE Micro “Top Pick” for UW CSE’s Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh transferred from UT Austin to the University of Washington several years ago, when his advisor Doug Burger joined Microsoft Research.
Since his arrival at UW, Hadi has had an extraordinary string of three IEEE Micro “Top Picks” papers – roughly ten papers selected annually as the very best to have appeared in the various computer architecture conferences during the year, and re-printed in a special issue of IEEE Micro.
Hadi’s third “Top Picks” paper has just appeared: “… Read more →
“Forget MOOCs – Let’s use MOOA”
“As colleges begin using massive open online courses (MOOC) to reduce faculty costs, a Johns Hopkins University professor has announced plans for MOOA: Massive Open Online Administrations. Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg … says that many colleges and universities face the same administrative issues every day. By having one experienced group of administrators make decisions for hundreds of campuses simultaneously, MOOA would help address these problems expeditiously and economically. Since MOOA would allow colleges to dispense with most of their own administrators,… Read more →
Maya Cakmak to join UW CSE
Maya Cakmak – a robotics researcher specializing in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Programming by Demonstration (PbD) – will be joining the UW CSE faculty.
Maya completed her Ph.D. in Robotics at Georgia Tech in 2012. Since then she has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage, Inc., manufacturer of personal robots and robot software. A main goal of her research is to enable non-experts to program personal robots by providing demonstrations of what they want. Maya’s work investigates challenges… Read more →