UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has received the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award – presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation, worldwide, in computer science – for his MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems.”
Congratulations to Shyam, and to his MIT Ph.D. advisor Dina Katabi!
Read the ACM press release here.
(UW CSE just got five papers into SIGCOMM 2013, two of which were co-authored by Shyam!)
Scrolling back through time:… Read more →
UW CSE hosts AP Computer Science test review and ice cream social
On Saturday, UW CSE demonstrated that ice cream and Java go hand in hand! Around 50 local students who will be taking the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam came to UW to eat ice cream and do some last-minute review.
Thanks to the many UW students and faculty who led review sessions on different AP CS topics and who took pictures! And good luck to all the high school students on the AP exam!
See photographs of the event here… Read more →
Martin Tompa, Jeremy Buhler win RECOMB “Test of Time” Award
UW CSE professor Martin Tompa and his Ph.D. alum Jeremy Buhler (now a faculty member at Washington University) have received the 2013 “Test of Time” Award from RECOMB – the Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology – for their paper “Finding Motifs Using Random Projections” which was presented at RECOMB 2001 and published in full length in the Journal of Computational Biology.
Congratulations to Martin and Jeremy!… Read more →
CSE undergraduates Matt Bryan, Kevin Clark, and Grace Muzny recognized in 2013 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Competition
The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition recognizes undergraduates in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Universities may nominate as many as four students annually.
In the 2013 competition (results announced today), three UW CSE nominees were recognized – extending UW CSE’s record of having the largest number of students recognized in the most recent ten years of this competition!
Congratulations to 2013 national winner Matt Bryan, and… Read more →
NSF CISE AD Farnam Jahanian visits UW CSE on May 23
Farnam Jahanian, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will visit UW CSE on Thursday May 23.
Dr. Jahanian will deliver the CSE Colloquium at 3:30 in EEB 105: “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication.”
Please join us! Additional information here.… Read more →
UW CSE alums @ Feierabend
More than 50 Seattle-area UW CSE alums met for happy hour at Feierabend (South Lake Union) on Thursday May 2 – along with faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska.
Didn’t hear about it? Read your damned email, or sign up for our Facebook group!… Read more →
CSE’s Mike Hotan, Jim Youngquist win 2013 Google SVA Scholarships
The newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. Google has partnered with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in higher education and throughout their careers.
Incredibly, two of the eight winners of inaugural Google SVA Scholarships are UW CSE students: undergraduate student Mike Hotan (USA Special Forces 2008-present) and graduate student Jim Youngquist… Read more →
“CSE professor remembered for love of people”
The UW Daily memorializes UW CSE professor David Notkin:
“David Notkin was known by many as a willing mentor and a leader in the field of software engineering. His bushy beard and wide smile made him a face of the department.
“His talent, charisma, and investment in his students made him an integral part of the UW Computer Science & Engineering community.
“Notkin passed away last Monday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer.”
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New Scientist on “smart dust”
The work of Josh Smith (UW CSE and EE) is described:
“But how do you charge something so small? ‘The vision of blanketing the world with smart sensors is very compelling,’ says Joshua Smith, head of the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. ‘But a lot of sensor networks researchers found themselves surrounded by mountains of depleted batteries and dead sensor nodes.’
“So, like microscopic Robinson Crusoes, the motes will live off the power they can… Read more →
OneBusAway transitions to Metro
OneBusAway began as a student project at the University of Washington. It became so widely used by transit commuters that after the students graduated, three area agencies (King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Pierce Transit) contracted with the University of Washington to continue running the service. There are now over 100,000 users per week in Puget Sound. At the same time, instances of OneBusAway have been brought up in other regions, including Atlanta, Detroit, and Tampa; the OneBusAway Enterprise system… Read more →