Allen School News

The “Dark Silicon” paper presented in June at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture is profiled in the New York Times: “Even today, the most advanced microprocessor chips have so many transistors that it is impractical to supply power to all of them at the same time. So some of the transistors are left unpowered … The phenomenon is known as dark silicon.  As early as next year, these advanced chips will need 21 percent of their transistors… Read more →

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The paper Proactive Detection of Collaboration Conflicts by UW CSE’s Yuriy Brun, Mike Ernst, and David Notkin, along with Reid Holmes from the University of Waterloo, has received a SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.    The paper will be presented in September at ESEC/FSE 2011: The 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). Congratulations to Yuriy, Mike, David, and Reid! (This is the… Read more →

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UW CSE professor Mike Ernst and postdoctoral research associate Werner Dietl have won the Best Paper Award at ECOOP 2011, the 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, for their paper Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe Types. Congratulations to Mike and Werner! Also at ECOOP 2011, UW CSE faculty alumnus Craig Chambers won the Dahl-Nygaard Prize. Congratulations to Craig!  … Read more →

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Recently launched: The NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering – Yoky Matsuoka, Director The Center for Game Science, sponsored by DARPA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Zoran Popovic, Director The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing – Dieter Fox, Director Learn more here!… Read more →

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Each year, UW Computer Science & Engineering and Microsoft Research host a Summer Research Institute in Computer Science, bringing together dozens of the world’s top researchers for several days to discuss an important emerging topic. This year’s UW-MSR Summer Research Institute is taking place July 24-27 at Suncadia Resort, located in the Cascades, ninety minutes southeast of Seattle.  The topic is “Security and Privacy for a Consumer, Cloud World.”  The goal is to identify new directions for consumer and cloud… Read more →

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The Institute has profiled UW CSE professor Raj Rao, stimulated by his TED ’11 presentation on his work deciphering Indus script.  “‘This analysis, along with other pieces of evidence, led us to conclude that the script might be versatile enough to encode an unknown language,’ Rao says.” Read the profile here.  Watch the TED ’11 talk here.  Learn about the research here.… Read more →

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UW CSE’s and EE’s Shwetak Patel is the guest on this week’s GeekWire Radio broadcast. “Our guest in the studio is Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Washington, who has figured out how to use voltage noise on home electrical systems to monitor the energy usage of specific appliances and devices, and also how to use home wiring as an antenna to receive signals from sensors around the home.” Give it… Read more →

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If we’re to believe Business Insider, two of Seattle’s 14 hot startups are UW CSE spinouts: “Decide.com was founded by a rock star tech team to bring consumers bargains on consumer electronics gear.“ “Impinj makes RFID chips and filed for an IPO in April.“ (A third of the 14, Apptio, is led by Sunny Gupta, formerly a VP at UW CSE startup Performant, which was acquired by Mercury Interactive.)… Read more →

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UW CSE Ph.D. student Tom Bergan is among 14 students from North America to win 2011-12 Google Ph.D. Fellowships.  Tom works with Luis Ceze, Dan Grossman, and Steve Gribble on improving multiprocessor programmability. Congratulations Tom!    … Read more →

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