SIGSOFT is the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award is presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT-sponsored conference held at least 10 years prior to the award year that is judged to have had the greatest impact since its publication.
The 2013 winners: UW CSE professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Mike Ernst, AOL principal software engineer (and UW CSE M.S. alum) Jake Cockrell, UCSD professor… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Notkin wins 2013 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
SIGSOFT is the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award is presented annually to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.
And the 2013 winner is: UW CSE’s David Notkin! Congratulations David!
Here’s a wonderful 30-minute talk by David’s Ph.D. student (and UW CSE professor) Mike Ernst describing David’s many software engineering research contributions.
And here’s information on Notkinfest, … Read more →
Crosscut reports on the visit of Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun to NEU-Seattle
Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun is visiting Seattle in connection with the inauguration of Northeastern’s Seattle campus, located in South Lake Union. Read the Crosscut article here.
This is what UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska sent to the reporter, in its entirety. (The article represents it perfectly well, but necessarily omits most of the material.)
Our state has a higher education system designed for our 1970 economy. Today, we rank 2nd among the 50 states in the proportion of our… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Krzysztof Gajos, Chris Re win 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships
Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in the fields of chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics, in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.
Among the 16 computer scientists selected as 2013 Sloan Research Fellows are two UW CSE Ph.D. alums:
Krzysztof Gajos, an expert in… Read more →
OneBusAway goes national!
OneBusAway, the popular real-time transit information system in the Puget Sound region developed by UW CSE, has gone national, with deployments in New York City and Detroit, along with experimental deployments in Tampa, Atlanta, and Washington DC.
In New York, MTA is using OneBusAway as the basis for its Bus Time service. In Detroit, a CodeForAmerica team used it for a text-messaging system, TextMyBus.
But you live in the Puget Sound region – use the original OneBusAway here… Read more →
UW and President Obama’s College Scorecard
During his State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new College Scorecard to help students and parents make better decisions about which college to attend.
How does the University of Washington stack up compared to other Washington State public institutions, and compared to its state-defined Global Challenge Peer Institutions (a selection of flagship universities with medical schools)?
Check it out! “Net cost” is shown below. Additional metrics here.
… Read more →
CSE’s Oren Etzioni on “Dinner Dialogs: The Next Big Ideas”
“Dinner Dialogs” is an innovative video series featuring top Seattle entrepreneurs. UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni is one of four discussants in the first episode. Watch it here.… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska testifies to House Science Committee on innovation in information technology
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, along with Kathryn McKinley (Microsoft Research) and Kelly Gaither (Texas Advanced Computing Center), testified today to the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on the topic of innovation in information technology.
Lazowska sang a familiar refrain:
Research often takes a long time before it pays off – often 15 years or more.
Research often pays off in unanticipated ways – we can’t predict what the biggest impact will be.
Advances in one sector… Read more →
Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: “Seattle is the promised land in startup America!”
GeekWire reports on an interview with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot:
“Building a company here in Seattle over the last 10 years has made us realize that in many ways, I think Seattle is the promised land in startup America. It’s one of the best decisions we ever made.
“We did not make the decision for business reasons. We moved because we wanted to live here. There were a few of us that were best described as Bay Area Burnouts and… Read more →
Insecurity of the ORCA regional transit not-so-smart card
Since its inception, UW CSE researchers have raised concerns regarding the security and privacy aspects of Seattle’s ORCA (“One Regional Card for All”) regional transit smartcard.
Now “there’s an app for that” – FareBot, which enables any NFC-equipped Android phone to extract the data from ORCA (and similar transit smartcards in San Francisco, Singapore, and Japan).
FareBot, created by Seattle software developer Eric Butler, builds upon work by UW CSE’s Karl Koscher.
Crosscut reports on the app today in… Read more →