Hearty congratulations to ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner Seth Cooper (CSE Ph.D. alum and Director of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science), and to new ACM Fellows Carl Ebeling (CSE faculty), Hugues Hoppe (CSE Ph.D. alum, now at Microsoft Research), Dan Suciu (CSE faculty), Dean Tullsen (CSE Ph.D. alum, now at UCSD), Amin Vahdat (CSE Ph.D. half-alum, now at UCSD and Google), and David “Where The Hell Was He?” Wetherall (CSE faculty).… Read more →
UW CSE at the WibiData Office Warming Party
In 2011, UW CSE alums Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball left their hugely successful “big data” startup Cloudera to found WibiData.
This evening, WibiData held an office warming party at their new digs, 375 Alabama in San Francisco. The UW CSE alumni turnout was extraordinary! (Ed Lazowska was in town for the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration and dropped by.)
More photos here.… Read more →
2011-12 CSE Capstone Design Course video montage
Capstone Design Courses are the hallmark of the UW CSE education. In these courses, teams of students design and implement complex hardware, software, and embedded system projects of their own invention. This allows them to deeply explore the areas they personally care about.
This video montage, prepared for our June 2012 graduation ceremony, quickly highlights all of the 2011-12 UW CSE Capstone Design Courses. Longer videos profiling specific courses are available here.
Take a look at the amazing… Read more →
CSE’s Tom Lehmann: National Champion
In the flurry of activities leading up to June 9th’s commencement, we failed to note an extraordinary accomplishment that took place on the previous Saturday, June 2.
The Washington Husky crew went an unprecedented 5 for 5 in the Grand Finals of the 110th IRA Championships, winning their fourth national championship in six years – with CSE senior Tom Lehmann rowing 3-seat in the Varsity 8. Read about this amazing performance here.
The Husky crew represents UW’s longest tradition… Read more →
CSE 131: The Science and Art of Digital Photography
Bruce Hemingway doesn’t just teach our digital design courses and photograph our departmental events – he combines the two in a spectacular course, “The Science and Art of Digital Photography.” Check out the course here, and some of the wonderful student accomplishments here.… Read more →
John K. Bennett, Wen-Hann Wang receive 2012 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Awards
Several years ago, we established the tradition of honoring two outstanding UW Computer Science & Engineering alumni each year as part of our graduation ceremony.
In doing this, we have three objectives:
First, of course, we want to honor some of our most distinguished alumni by recognizing their extraordinary achievements.
Second, we want to ensure that today’s graduates know that they are part of a long tradition of excellence and accomplishment.
Finally, we hope to inspire today’s graduates – we… Read more →
Congratulations to Hal Perkins, winner of the 2012 UW CSE ACM Teaching Award
Each year, CSE’s graduating students recognize a faculty member for exemplary teaching. This year’s winner of the UW CSE ACM Teaching Award, announced at this morning’s UW CSE commencement ceremony, is Hal Perkins.
Congratulations, Hal, and thanks for all you do to help CSE’s students succeed!
(Past winners of the award include Stuart Reges, Luis Ceze, Marty Stepp, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, Steve Gribble, Brian Curless, Carl Ebeling, Ben Dugan, Steve Wolfman, and Martin Tompa.)… Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis on American Public Media’s “Marketplace”
UW CSE Ph.D. student Alexei Czeskis was interviewed on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” concerning a program in San Antonio to track students within their high schools using RFID.
“Alexei Czeskis studies RFID privacy issues at the University of Washington’s Security and Privacy Research Lab. He says it’s hard to predict the consequences of collecting all this data on our children.
“‘We don’t know what it could be used for in the future,’ he says, ‘and that could be… Read more →
CSE’s Paul Beame elected to chair ACM SIGACT
Congratulations to UW CSE professor Paul Beame, who has just been elected Chair of SIGACT, the ACM special interest group on the theory of computing.
UW CSE has a long history of ACM SIG leadership – including Jean-Loup Baer as Chair of SIGARCH (computer architecture), Ed Lazowska as Chair of SIGMETRICS (computer system performance evaluation), Hank Levy as Chair of SIGOPS (operating systems), and David Notkin as Chair of SIGSOFT (software engineering).… Read more →
Ben Taskar joins UW CSE, consolidating UW’s position in the top tier of machine learning
Ben Taskar, currently the Magerman Term Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania, will be joining the UW CSE faculty in early 2013.
Ben is an outstanding researcher in machine learning, particularly in its applications to natural language processing and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford and is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an NSF CAREER Award.
The addition of… Read more →