Today at the annual University of Washington awards ceremony, Stuart Reges was recognized with the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. And he even wore a tie!
Congratulations, Stuart. And, a million thanks for your extraordinary accomplishments with our introductory sequence.… Read more →
“Stuart Reges: UW Distinguished Teaching Award”
UW Today published a special supplement, highlighting recipients of the 2011 UW Awards of Excellence. As reported earlier, UW CSE’s Stuart Reges has won this year’s University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given to faculty who show “a mastery of their subject matter, intellectual rigor and a passion for teaching.”
Congratulations again to Stuart!
Full UW Today special award edition here.… Read more →
“Skew in MapReduce” wins Open Cirrus Summit Best Student Paper
“A Study of Skew in MapReduce Applications,” a paper describing the causes and manifestations of skew in MapReduce applications with best practice recommendations to avoid such behavior, has received the “Best Student Paper” award at the Open Cirrus Summit 2011. The paper was authored by UW CSE graduate student YongChul Kwon, UW CSE faculty members Magda Balazinska and Bill Howe, and Jerome Rolia from HP Labs. Open Cirrus is an open cloud-computing research testbed designed to support… Read more →
“9 Companies Hiring Now”
US News, in a May 31 article, identifies 9 major companies who are recruiting like crazy. Many have a big Seattle presence, including:
“1. Boeing. The company … plans to hire a total of 4,000 to 5,000 employees this year … The bulk of those positions are located in the Puget Sound region … Boeing’s looking first and foremost for engineers … ‘We look for individuals who have a passion for technology and innovation’ … The company is also… Read more →
“UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy”
A GeekWire post on UW CSE’s EnerJ project, to be presented next week at PLDI:
“University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by 50 percent or more by segmenting software code into areas that require high levels of accuracy — and therefore high levels of energy — and those that don’t.”
Read the GeekWire post here. Read the PLDI paper here. Read a UW press… Read more →
MerchantCircle acquired by Reply! Inc.
MerchantCircle, co-founded by UW CSE alum Wayne Yamamoto, has been acquired by Reply! Inc. MerchantCircle is the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, combining social networking features with free marketing tools that enable merchants to maximize their online visibility. Press release here.… Read more →
“Spammers and Their Bankers”
An editorial in today’s New York Times follows up on an article ten days ago describing work led by UW CSE Ph.D. alums Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker. Savage, Voelker, and 13 collaborators carry out an end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain, and determine that 95% of spam-advertised pharmaceutical, replica and software products are monetized using merchant services from just a handful of banks.
The New York Times editorial states: “The Times’s John Markoff reported that computer scientists… Read more →
Will Johnson wins UW A&S Dean’s Medal for the Sciences
Will Johnson, a senior majoring in Computer Science and in Mathematics, has been awarded the 2011 UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal for the Sciences, recognizing the most accomplished graduating student in the natural sciences.
Will has a remarkable record of accomplishment and recognition: he recently won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; he was celebrated in the Washington State Senate and in the Seattle Times for being named a Putnam Fellow (for finishing among the top five… Read more →
ACM TechNews, ITBusinessEdge on Computer Science job market
ACM TechNews and ITBusinessEdge have both picked up UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska’s recent Xconomy article on the Computer Science job market.
“Meanwhile, in this post at Xconomy, Lazowska reports that his seniors are being offered salaries straight out of college as high as $105,000. The emails he quotes in that piece will just blow you away at the opportunities these kids are offered, such as this:
“‘I’m a senior who transferred to UW from Shoreline Community College.… Read more →
OneBusAway in Seattle Times
OneBusAway, a transit app by UW CSE’s Brian Ferris and collaborators, is praised in this Seattle Times article:
“One of Seattle’s least-known secrets is a magical app for your phone.
“It can make you more efficient, reduce stress, give you more time, save you money and help the environment.
“Best of all, it’s free.
“You don’t even need an expensive smartphone or one of those wireless plans that cost as much as a car payment.
“I’m talking about OneBusAway… Read more →