On February 1 2013, more than 300 members of the UW CSE “extended family” joined in recognizing the contributions of David Notkin at Notkinfest.
A world leader in software engineering, David served as CSE chair from 2001-06, and has been honored with the Boeing Professorship, the Frank and Wilma Bradley Endowed Professorship, and the Frank and Wilma Bradley Endowed Chair.
An extraordinary mentor, David received the University of Washington Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in 2000. His philosophy about working with… Read more →
UW Daily on UW CSE’s FoneAstra project
“The capabilities of mobile devices have been expanding to serve purposes far beyond communication. More recently, this trend has centered around creating smartphone applications for medical purposes.
“A project out of the UW uses new technology to monitor safe breast milk pasteurization with a mobile device. This app, called FoneAstra, was developed by UW computer science and engineering (CSE) graduate student Rohit Chaudhri in collaboration with the Seattle-based nongovernmental organization PATH and the UW Department of Human Centered Design… Read more →
Another CACM “Research Highlight” for UW CSE’s Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
When University of Texas faculty stars Doug Burger and Kathryn McKinley moved to Microsoft Research, they brought with them graduate student Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, who transferred to UW CSE and added CSE’s Luis Ceze as an advisor.
Hadi has had an amazing streak of high-profile results recently:
A “Research Highlight” in CACM: “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval” (full paper from ASPLOS here), July 2012.
Two “Research Highlights” in IEEE Micro: “Dark Silicon … Read more →
Seattle Weekly: “Ouch: Washington Among Top Ten States in Cuts to Higher Education”
… and the 4- years were cut much more deeply than the 2-years …
… and the research institutions were cut much more deeply than the other 4-years …
… and UW was hit worst of all.
Read the article here.… Read more →
CSE’s “Rome in a Day” featured by National Science Foundation
NSF’s bi-weekly “CS Bits & Bytes” featured UW CSE’s “Rome in a Day” project back in December. (An email version went out then, but the web version only just became available due to a snafu.)
“The University of Washington team, with the help of NSF funding, has been able to create a computer program that includes a “parallel matching” system that can match massive collections of images very quickly to create 3D reconstructions. The team ran 150,000 images from Flicker.com… Read more →
Slate: “How [UW CSE Ph.D. alum] Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet”
“Jeff Dean facts aren’t, well, true. But the fact that someone went to the trouble to make up Chuck Norris-esque exploits about Dean is remarkable. That’s because Jeff Dean is a software engineer, and software engineers are not like Chuck Norris. For one thing, they’re not lone rangers—software development is an inherently collaborative enterprise. For another, they rarely shoot cowboys with an Uzi.
“Nevertheless, on April Fool’s Day 2007, some admiring young Google engineers saw fit to bestow upon Jeff… Read more →
Success disaster: Google Self-Driving Car presentation
Hopefully the fire marshal is otherwise occupied …
IMPORTANT: Babak Parviz’s Friday talk about Google Glass has been moved to EE125 to provide additional space. Friday, 2:00-2:30, EE125.… Read more →
Notkinfest! Please join us on Friday February 1
UW CSE invites you to join in celebrating the career of David Notkin at Notkinfest on the afternoon of Friday February 1.
4:00-4:30 – Colloquium, EE 105: Michael Ernst, “Software evolution then and now: the research impact of David Notkin”
4:30-6:00 – Reception, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
5:00-5:20 – Brief remarks
Please join us!
Post-event information – photographs, videos, the establishment of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering… Read more →
UW Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design program seeks Director
UW’s new Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design (MHCI+D) is offered by leading UW faculty from four units: Computer Science & Engineering, Human-Centered Design & Engineering, the Information School, and the Division of Design.
MHCI+D is seeking a Director. Learn more here.… Read more →
T.J. Vassar
We join all of Seattle in remembering an outstanding educator and an extraordinary human being.
Read a lovely Seattle Times article by Katherine Long here.… Read more →