UW CSE adjunct professor Leroy Hood, President of Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology, today was named the recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize. The Russ Prize – a $500,000 biennial award “recognizing a bioengineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition” – was conferred on Hood “for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized biomedicine and forensic science.”
The National Academy of Engineering announcement quotes UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska: “No single person… Read more →
“Kings” to 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
“Kings,” a computer animation created in UW CSE’s undergraduate computer animation capstone course, has been selected for screening at the 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival – one of a dozen festival screenings of UW CSE undergraduate capstone animations in the past six months.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Greg Barnes and friends win Canlis 60th anniversary scavenger hunt for charity
A team led by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Greg Barnes, and including UW CSE graduate program alums Elizabeth Walkup, Lauren Bricker, Franz Amador, Dorothy Neville, Erik Selberg, and Terry Farrah (as well as UW CSE course-taker (Eric Bone), has won the Canlis Restaurant “Light Up Seattle” scavenger hunt challenge – dinner for two, annually, for life, at Canlis, Seattle’s premier restaurant – plus a second dinner for two annually to be given away to someone who has helped the… Read more →
UW CSE startup Skytap raises additional $10M
TechFlash writes: “Skytap, which helps companies cut costs by testing software applications in the cloud, has raised $10 million in fresh funding, according to a filing with the SEC. Founded in 2006 by University of Washington computer scientists Brian Bershad (now at Google); Hank Levy, David Richardson and Steve Gribble, Skytap has raised a total of about $23 million to date.
“Investors in the company – led by former iConclude and ADIC exec Scott Roza – include OpenView Venture Partners,… Read more →
“Designing a Digital Future” – video excerpts
On Thursday, December 16, 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released and discussed its report entitled “Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology.” This congressionally-mandated report assesses the status and direction of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program.
Video excerpts from the event are now available here. Of particular interest are the 5-minute segments by Tom Kalil (Deputy Director for Policy, White… Read more →
Shwetak Patel makes the TechFlash 2010 Top 10
TechFlash has named its Top 10 startup stories of 2010 – including “UW prof, 27, sells home-energy monitoring startup to Belkin.”… Read more →
“Time for Christmas presents”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska gets a nod in the Christmas issue of Crosscut, in the same breath as UW CSE friends Tom Alberg, Jeremy Jaech, Paul Allen, Scott Oki, and the Gates family. “There are way too few such bridge figures … but they are absolutely critical if we are to relocate our civic blueprints.”… Read more →
MSB – “All the news that fits, we print!”
Check out the latest issue of Most Significant Bits, the UW CSE alumni magazine. Among the high points in this issue:
Center for Game Science
Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound Project
CRA Undergraduate Award Competition
CSE Alumnus Ed Felten Named Chief Technologist of FTC
Josh Smith joins CSE and EE faculty
Gaetano Borriello, Steve Seitz, and Fran Berman are 2011 IEEE Fellows
2010 UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting
2010 UW CSE Bay Area alumni event
Larry Snyder’s valedictory lecture
Introducing Ms.… Read more →
“A Journey of Discovery”
Communications of the ACM profiles UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska in January’s last byte feature.
“As an undergraduate student at Brown University, Ed Lazowska hardly seemed destined to become a leader in computer science. Actually, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. He started as an engineering student, switched to physics, and briefly considered chemistry. Essentially, he was ‘adrift.’ (His description, not ours.)
“It wasn’t until he fell under the tutelage of computer science professor Andy van Dam that he… Read more →
“Smarter, Not Faster, Is the Future of Computing Research”
The New York Times reports on a new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, including extensive comments from UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
“Priorities for computing research, according to the report, should include new techniques for exploring large-scale data sets, and algorithms for machine learning. Indeed, a section of the report states that progress in software algorithms has been more important than faster computers in applications like speech recognition, natural language translation and logistics planning.… Read more →