UW CSE Ph.D. students Elisa Celis, Emad Soroush, and Michael Toomim are among 22 students from across the nation to win 2011 awards in the Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” program.
Elisa works with UW CSE professor Anna Karlin on algorithmic game theory, internet economics, and social networks.
Emad works with UW CSE faculty member Magda Balazinska on data management.
Michael works with UW CSE professor James Landay on human-computer interaction.
In 2010, UW CSE Ph.D. students Yaw Anokwa and Yingyi… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum wins NDSEG Fellowship
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum, a first year grad student studying quantum computing with Dave Bacon and Aram Harrow, has received a 2011 National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship. He is the department’s 14th recipient of this fellowship.
David also recently won an NSF Graduate Fellowship, as reported here.
Congratulations to David!… Read more →
Yaw Anokwa: Changing The World
UW CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa discusses his work on information technology for the developing world in this terrific UW College of Engineering video.
“Computer scientists and computer engineers change the world by designing, building, and deploying innovative solutions to real-world problems …”
Watch the video here. Learn more about Yaw and his research here.… Read more →
Lazowska on GeekWire
Todd Bishop and John Cook host UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire:
“This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a ’60 Minutes’ crew, the opening of Zynga’s new office in Pioneer Square, and the city’s plan to bring better Internet connectivity to the Seattle neighborhood, to the potential benefit of the many startups headquartered there.
“Our guest in the studio is Ed Lazowska, the longtime University of Washington computer science professor, who talks… Read more →
Joe Devietti wins Intel Graduate Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Joe Devietti has been recognized with a 2011-12 Intel Graduate Fellowship.
Devietti works with UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman on the Sampa project, seeking to make multiprocessors easier to program by leveraging changes in both computer architectures and parallel programming models.… Read more →
MIT150
Computerworld reports on the symposium “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,” held in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article (here) includes extensive references to a talk by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska – slides here.… Read more →
“A Wireless Heart”
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 →
Latino Achievers Academy visits UW CSE
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 →
Phil Bernstein, Jayant Madhavan win VLDB 2011 “Test of Time” Award
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 →
“Computer Science & Engineering students win National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition”
A terrific article regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the NCCDC. Read it here!… Read more →