For the 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in 2012, a program committee has assembled a special volume to highlight the most significant papers from the conferences – 25 papers across all years and all major FPGA topics that best exemplify the contributions from the conference. These 25 papers represent roughly 5% of the 400-500 papers that have appeared in the conference to date.
The paper “PathFinder: A Negotiation-Based Performance-Driven Router for FPGAs” by… Read more →
CSE’s Tom Anderson wins “Top 20 in 20” from HPDC
The International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) has identified 20 “most influential” papers from the past 20 years. Among them is the paper “WebOS: Operating System Services For Wide Area Applications” by Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, Mike Dahlin, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham, and Chad Yoshikawa.
Says Tom: “Perhaps a lesson in this – this paper was serially rejected from every conference we submitted it to, except the last one (HPDC). After all,… Read more →
“Want to catalyze innovation? Look to the gamers”
In the Washington Post, DARPA Director Regina Dugan highlights UW’s Foldit game, in which 100,000+ gamers contribute to protein folding and protein structure calculation.
“We have a program — a game — called Foldit. It was originally sponsored at DARPA, and it is essentially the Tetris of protein folding. Understanding the three-dimensional folded structure of a protein is very important for understanding disease and for developing treatments for diseases. A gamer said, ‘Oh, look, lots of small manipulations, lots of… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Notkin wins ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
David Notkin – Bradley Chair in Computer Science & Engineering – has been honored with the Influential Educator Award from SIGSOFT, the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
David is being recognized for “tremendous impact in graduate-level education, in mentoring junior researchers, and in nurturing future researchers.”
The award was initiated in 2009, and in the first year was awarded posthumously to David’s Ph.D. advisor, CMU’s Nico Habermann. David will receive the award at the International Conference on… Read more →
STEM Out! @ UW CSE
On Saturday February 18, 48 girls in grades 8-12 gathered in UW CSE for STEM Out! organized by Amazon.com Hoppers.
Computer science is a great “change the world” field for everyone! Come join us!… Read more →
UW CSE at the NITRD Symposium
On February 16th, a technical symposium in Washington DC marked the 20th anniversary of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program – the multi-agency coordinated R&D program that was set in motion by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, sponsored by then-Senator Al Gore.
Among the speakers were UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage (now on the faculty at UC San Diego), UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Adrian Sampson named 2012-13 Facebook Fellow
After considering nearly 300 applications, Facebook has announced 12 winners and 30 finalists for 2012-2013 Facebook Fellowships.
Winners each receive full payment for their 2012-2013 tuition, a $30,000 stipend to cover study expenses, $5,000 for conference travel, and $2,500 for a personal computer.
Congratulations to UW CSE Ph.D. student Adrian Sampson and UW Information School Ph.D. student Jeff Huang, who are among the 12 winners, and to UW CSE Ph.D. student Alan Ritter, who was among the 30… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Prasad Raghavendra, Noah Snavely win Sloan Research Fellowships
UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, along with recent UW CSE Ph.D. alums Prasad Raghavendra (now a faculty member at Georgia Tech) and Noah Snavely (now a faculty member at Cornell), were named today as recipients of 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships.
Sloan Research Fellowships – among the most prestigious awards available to young scientists – emphasize individual creativity in the selection process. Patel is the 18th UW CSE faculty member to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Shwetak,… Read more →
On mentoring …
In this Seattle Times article, Kate Starbird – Lakes High School graduate, Stanford and professional basketball star, and soon-to-be University of Colorado ATLAS Institute Ph.D. recipient – credits UW CSE’s David Notkin for reaching out and helping her make the return from professional sports to computer science.
“After playing professionally in Spain, she was thinking about returning to school when she received an email out of the blue from Notkin, inviting her to a meeting of the executive leadership of… Read more →
The Impact of IT R&D – A Webcast Symposium
On Thursday, a daylong “semi-technical” symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the Federal NITRD Program – under which more than a dozen Federal agencies coordinate their investments in networking and information technology research and development – will be held in Washington DC and webcast live.
Speakers (at 15 minutes apiece) include Jeannette Wing, Kevin Knight, Beth Mynatt, Helen Nissenbaum, Sebastian Thrun, UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel, Erik Brynjolfsson, Tom Lange, Vint Cerf, Bill Scherlis, UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Savage, Russ… Read more →