Allen School News

A post on the Babbage science and technology blog at The Economist looks at work by UW CSE/EE professor Joshua Smith et al. on wireless power for left ventricular assist devices (LVAD).  LVAD, implanted in failing human hearts, is a life-saving technology that suffers from problems with high patient infection rates and maintenance overhead due to the need for external power.  Smith’s new power system will be announced formally at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting in May.… Read more →

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UW CSE faculty and grad students hosted 37 school kids from the Latino Achievers Academy last week.  After seeing several research demos, including brain-computer interfaces, the group noshed a pizza lunch in the Atrium. Photos may be viewed here.… Read more →

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UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jayant Madhavan (now at Google) and UW CSE adjunct professor Phil Bernstein (at Microsoft Research), along with their collaborator Erhard Rahm, have been announced as the winners of the VLDB 2011 “10-year Best Paper Award.” The award recognizes their paper “Generic Schema Matching with Cupid” as the most influential paper presented at the 2001 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, with the benefit of a decade’s hindsight. Congratulations!… Read more →

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A terrific article regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the NCCDC.  Read it here!… Read more →

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On April 13, UW CSE hosted its annual scholarship and fellowship recognition luncheon, honoring the donors and recipients of scholarships and fellowships. At the undergraduate level, scholarships make it possible for top students to attend UW CSE regardless of means.  At the graduate level, fellowships allow us to compete successfully for the very best students from across the nation and around the world. Undergraduate student Krysta Yousoufian and graduate student Kyle Rector described the difference that scholarship and fellowship support… Read more →

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UW CSE Ph.D. student Kristi Morton has been named the 2011 recipient of the Osberg Fellowship, a competitive fellowship awarded by the University of Washington College of Engineering thanks to the generosity of friends Allan and Inger Osberg. Kristi – an undergraduate at Rice University – studies databases and programming languages with CSE faculty members Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Grossman, when she is not playing the drums in the UW CSE band.… Read more →

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“Keypad:  an auditing file system for theft-prone devices,” a paper describing a new file system that enhances data security on mobile devices, has been named “Best Student Paper” at this year’s EuroSys 2011 conference.  The paper was authored by UW CSE graduate students Roxana Geambasu and John P. John and UW CSE faculty members Steve Gribble, Yoshi Kohno, and Hank Levy. Congratulations!… Read more →

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In the “local gal makes good” department:  2003 UW CSE alum Siobhan Quinn is interviewed by Xconomy about the tech scene in NYC.  After 7 years with Google in Mountain View, Siobhan became Foursquare’s first Product Manager last summer.  Read the article here.… Read more →

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Mark Murray reports on invasion of English Ivy, hedera helix, which has penetrated the exterior of Sieg Hall and has emerged inside, via a heater in Sieg 127C.  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust … Learn more about Beautiful Sieg Hall here.… Read more →

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A UW CSE team consisting of Alexei Czeskis (team captain), Karl Koscher (team co-founder), Ian Finder, Mary Pimenova, Cullen Walsh, Baron Oldenburg, Conrad Meyer, and Mark Jordan – coached by Melody Kadenko – has won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition! The finals, held April 9 and 10 in San Antonio TX, featured 9 teams from across the nation – the winners of 9 regional competitions.  A total of 109 teams participated in these regional competitions. Congratulations!!!!! See a previous… Read more →

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