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 →
“Washington’s leaders flunk the higher education test”
The Tacoma News Tribune weighs in on a recent University of Pennsylvania study that castigates Washington’s leaders for under-investment in bachelors-level higher education:
“A new critique of the system from the University of Pennsylvania should give pause to anyone inclined to view cuts to public colleges as the path of least resistance in a hard budget year.
“Washington’s four-year colleges are already half-crippled, concluded the experts from the university’s Institute for Research on Higher Education …
“Hunting for the underlying… Read more →
UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello receives UC Berkeley Computer Science Division’s Distinguished Alumni Award
Congratulations to UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, who will be one of two recipients of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Division’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gaetano joins an extraordinary list of Berkeley alums who have been recognized with this award – a list that includes UW CSE professor Susan Eggers (a 2009 recipient) and former UW CSE professor Tony DeRose (a 2011 recipient).
Congratulations Gaetano!… Read more →
“Cars: The Next Victims of Cyberattacks”
IEEE Spectrum, a bit late to the party, report on the automotive security work carried out jointly by the security groups at UW and UCSD:
“Researchers at the University of California at San Diego and the University of Washington say that in their tinkering research, they hit upon a cyberattack method by which thieves could cause large groups of cars to report their vehicle identification numbers (from which it is easy to determine the cars’ years, makes, and models)… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Hinshaw blows his own horn
The Stranger reviews Orkestar Zirkonium’s new album “Too Hot for Sleep”:
“Orkestar Zirkonium is a 13-piece marching band with bouncy tuba rhythms, circus-y horn flourishes, and a killer clarinetist ([UW CSE Ph.D. alum] Kevin Hinshaw) who sounds like he’s been airlifted from a concert of Rhapsody in Blue and dropped into a Bulgarian brass band playing around a campfire.”
Read the review here. Learn about Orkestar Zirkonium here. Buy the album here. Read Dan Savage’s latest column… Read more →
“Higher-ed woes tied to state ‘leadership vacuum'”
The Seattle Times reports on a new study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education that highlights Washington State’s lack of bachelors capacity, which “forces employers to go out of state — and even out of the country — to find skilled workers.” The report “puts the blame largely on state leadership — especially Gov. Chris Gregoire, but also state legislators — for what the authors call a ‘policy leadership vacuum.'” The authors also “noted Washington’s four-year schools… Read more →
“Let’s give it the old NYC college try”
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes:
“It doesn’t take college-level math to figure that a growing state also needs to continually expand its college system. So why not try what New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did? Throw out a little carrot. See who would compete to build a new college here.”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska responds:
“Here’s the conundrum:
“Public universities have traditionally been ‘accessible’ in two important respects: they are large, and they have low tuition… Read more →