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 →
Kristi Morton wins Osberg Fellowship
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 →
“Keypad” wins Eurosys 2011 Best Student Paper
“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.
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“Siobhan Quinn says …”
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 →
Nature reclaims Sieg Hall
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 →
UW CSE team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
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!!!!!
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“UW cyber team plays defense on a national level”
From the Seattle Times:
“A team of eight University of Washington students will wage war this weekend against an expert force, defending their territory with stealth tactics and on-the-fly invention. But there are no physical weapons involved. There’s not even a physical battleground. For the fourth year in a row, the team will compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, in which teams from around the country attempt to shield a computer system from professional hackers aiming to cause… Read more →
Craig Chambers wins 2011 Dahl-Nygaard Prize
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to recognize research contributions to object-oriented programming. Each year two prizes are awarded: to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions, and to a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the area of Software Engineering.
The recipient of the 2011 senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize is Craig Chambers, for work done as a UW CSE faculty member from 1991-2007. (At that time,… Read more →
Congratulations to UW CSE NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners!
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are the most prestigious awards available to students beginning their graduate studies in the sciences. Among the winners of 3-year 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, announced today, are current UW CSE graduate students Katelin Bailey, Waylon Brunette, Katie Kuksenok, Yun-En Liu, and David Rosenbaum; UW CSE undergraduate seniors Will Johnson and Joy Kim; and 2010 UW CSE undergraduate alumnae Justine Sherry (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley) and Heather Underwood (now… Read more →
Intel blogs Corensic’s Jinx
Corensic, a software quality tool company founded by UW CSE faculty Mark Oskin and Luis Ceze, this week announced the availability of Jinx 1.2 R2, a software quality tool for Linux and Windows. Jinx exposes hard-to-find concurrency bugs in software, a task that ordinarily requires numerous manual steps and a great deal of luck.
Intel is blogging about Corensic and Jinx! As James Reinders states in his Intel blog, “I was a little ‘slow’ in figuring out what all… Read more →