Vaughn Iverson is a UW CSE Masters alum, now a Ph.D. student working in Ginger Armbrust‘s lab in UW Oceanography. The New York Times writes:
“By filtering through 25 gallons of seawater from Puget Sound, a computer scientist in Washington State has managed to tease out and sequence the DNA of a tiny microbe that has eluded scientists for years.
“The creature is Euryarchaeota, one of the archaea, a class of micro-organisms that were once thought to be bacteria… Read more →
Adrien Treuille on Collaborative Science at Solve for X
UW CSE alum Adrien Treuille, a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, was a featured speaker at the recent Google Solve for X conference.
For three days, fifty scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world came together to discuss and debate radical solutions to some really big problems.
Adrien spoke on “collaborative science,” the subject of his UW CSE Ph.D. thesis, which yielded the hugely successful protein folding game Foldit.
See Adrien’s superb Solve for… Read more →
WibiData raises $5M from Eric Schmidt and NEA
WibiData, the big data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder and UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia and Cloudera early employee and never-to-be-seen-again CSE Ph.D. student Aaron Kimball, is announcing $5 million in new funding from NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Past investors in the company include Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and SV Angel.
Read all about it here! Congratulations to Christophe and Aaron!… Read more →
“EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support”
Says Brett Helsel, EMC Isilon Senior Vice President of Engineering: “Wowee. A couple of UW CSE interns (Conrad Meyer and Allison Obourn) and a couple of UW CSE alums (Jeff Hughes and Darrick Lew) for a couple of months in the summer and look at all the noise you can make.”
Read the EMC Isilon press release here.… Read more →
National Science Foundation 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
And the winner (in the “Interactive Games” category): UW CSE’s Foldit, as usual – the massively multi-player web-based game that, a few months ago, cracked an AIDS-related protein structure problem that had eluded scientists for a decade.
NSF news post here. More information on UW CSE’s Center for Game Science here.… Read more →
Gabe Cohn, Franzi Roesner, Julia Schwarz win Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships
Gabe Cohn, Franzi Roesner, and Julia Schwarz are three of the twelve winners (from 198 nominees) of this year’s Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships.
Gabe is a UW EE Ph.D. student working with Shwetak Patel on embedded systems and VLSI in ubiquitous computing applications. He was an undergraduate at Caltech.
Franzi is a UW CSE Ph.D. student working with Yoshi Kohno in the areas of security, privacy, and systems. She was an undergraduate at UT Austin.
Julia, a UW CSE… Read more →
“Astounding ‘Facts’ About Google’s Most Badass Engineer, Jeff Dean”
Yes, that’s our Jeff Dean, and we taught him everything he knows. (If you believe even 1/2 of 1% of that, we’ve got a Space Needle to sell you.)
Business Insider writes:
“Forget Larry and Sergey: At the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, the real celebrity engineer is Jeff Dean …
“Dean is such a star because Googlers widely credit his code for the blazing speed of Google search.
“How deep does this adoration go? You know those Chuck Norris… Read more →
Recession?
UW CSE Affiliates winter recruiting fair. See the companies here. See a gaggle of Bruce Hemingway photos here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni: GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for building businesses based on complex algorithms that help people make decisions. If you’ve used the price prediction engine in Microsoft Bing Travel, you’re familiar with his work. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, which Microsoft acquired to form the basis for that service.
“The University of Washington computer science professor and Madrona Venture Group venture partner is currently the… Read more →
“A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams”
UW CSE Ph.D. student Dan Halperin is quoted in a New York Times article on work at Microsoft Research, led by Victor Bahl and involving Dan and UW CSE professor David Wetherall, “experimenting with wireless links, mounted atop server racks, to supply extra bandwidth for moving data along at crunch times.”
“The Microsoft team forged ahead with the project, building and testing a system with tiny directional antennas at the top of each rack to send and receive data.… Read more →