UW CSE sponsors dozens of certificate programs through UW Professional and Continuing Education – multi-course themed clusters targeted at professionals. The latest – in which CSE collaborated with the UW eScience Institute – is the Certificate in Cloud Computing. UW CSE’s Bill Howe, who worked with an expert industry advisory board and UW PCE staff to create the program and will teach the capstone course, says “Today, the analysis of data – not the collection of it –… Read more →
OneBusAway honored with VISION 2040 Award from Puget Sound Regional Council
UW CSE’s Brian Ferris, the brains and brawn behind the OneBusAway transit application, may have received his Ph.D. and left for Google Zurich where the trams run like a Swiss watch … but OBA remains behind, continuing to garner awards – this time from the Puget Sound Regional Council.
PSRC’s VISION 2040 Award “recognizes innovative projects and programs that help ensure a sustainable future as the region grows.” Said Mukilteo Councilmember Jennifer Gregerson, Chair of the VISION 2040 Awards… Read more →
UW CSE alum events
Last week UW CSE hosted alum happy hours at Microsoft, Google Kirkland, and Google Fremont. More than 200 alums and interns and 20 faculty turned out. Many thanks to our terrific Microsoft and Google recruiters for facilitating these events, and to our terrific alums for turning out. (We apologize for coming away with nothing more than a couple of crummy cell phone photos – we promise to do better next time!)… Read more →
“This Internet thing is going to be big!”
The first mention of the word “Internet” on Seattle’s KING-5 News was a 1994 interview with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska. Recently, KING-5 News anchor Allen Schauffler compelled Ed to revisit that interview. It’s worth watching, here. Main conclusion: “The past 17 years have been a lot kinder to the Internet than to me.” Allen took the Wayback Machine photograph to the right.… Read more →
Jean-Loup Baer’s 75th!
UW CSE emeritus professor Jean-Loup Baer celebrated his 75th birthday on Saturday evening with a wonderful party at Bastille. Winners of the “To how many obscure questions about Jean-Loup can you guess the right answer?” contest were entered in the Jean-Loup Baer Lookalike Contest.
Happy birthday Jean-Loup!!… Read more →
“Educating the next generation of geeks”
In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast features excerpts from past interviews with technology educators and one very impressive high school student: Ed Lazowska (Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington), Daniil Kulchenko (the 15 year-old entrepreneur who sold his cloud-computing startup earlier this year – and who is the son of UW CSE Ph.D. student Paul Kulchenko), and Hanson Hosein (Director of the Master of… Read more →
“Remote Control, With a Wave of a Hand”
Joint research by UW and Microsoft Research is described in the New York Times.
The research provides gestural remote control by means of algorithms that interpret and harness the interaction between the human body and the ambient electromagnetic field that is emitted as a matter of course by the wiring in households, by the power lines above homes, and by the gas pumps at service stations. The work was described in the CHI 2011 paper “Your Noise is My … Read more →
Gail Murphy, David Notkin, and Kevin Sullivan win ACM SIGSOFT 2011 Retrospective Impact Paper Award
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering – SIGSOFT – launched an initiative several years ago to recognize research papers that have been particularly influential in software engineering research. Annually an award is made to a paper published a decade earlier, and in each of the first five years of the award, an additional committee is asked to select up to five papers published prior to 1998 for a special Retrospective Impact Award.
The 1995 paper “Software Reflexion Models: … Read more →
“In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column”
A New York Times article on improvements in computer-generated text (and specifically on some great work by Narrative Science, a Northwestern University startup) quotes UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni. Read the article here.… Read more →
VLDB “Best Paper” Awards
VLDB 2011 – the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases – was held in Seattle this week.
As previously noted here, the VLDB 10-year Award, recognizing the paper that appeared in the VLDB conference 10 years ago and has had the greatest impact on database research since then, was received by Jayant Madhavan (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum, currently at Google) and Phil Bernstein (a UW CSE Affiliate Professor, working at Microsoft Research), along with their co-author Erhard… Read more →